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A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God's rich grace displayed in the…
A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God's rich grace displayed in the mediator to believers, and his direful wrath against impenitent sinners containing the substance of near forty sermons upon several subjects / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed by the author, 1694
THE BLESSEDNESS OF Christ's Sheep, &c. › JOHN X. 27. My Sheep hear my Voice, and they follow me.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. 1. Because a Stranger is one that we know not; so a false Teacher is one that knows not Christ, nor his true and saving Doctrine, they are not acquainted with him, are not brought into Union with Christ, nor have Communion with him.
2. They are Strangers to the Life and Power of true Religion and Godliness.
3. The Saints also know them not, they approve not of them, nor of the Doctrine they preach; they can discern between Truth and Error, by the Anointing they have received.
4. A Stranger is one that is not a constant dweller in one Place: so false Prophets, and false Teachers, are not fixed long in one Opinion. Her Ways, saith Solomon, are moveable, speaking of the false Church, or adulterous Woman: many of these are one day for one thing, for one Error, and another day for another; this shows they are false Teachers, or Strangers to the Truth, they know it not.
4. A Stranger is one that is not a constant dweller in one Place: so false Prophets, and false Teachers, are not fixed long in one Opinion. Her Ways, saith Solomon, are moveable, speaking of the false Church, or adulterous Woman: many of these are one day for one thing, for one Error, and another day for another; this shews they are false Teachers, or Strangers to the Truth, they know it not.