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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.
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.
5. They are called Strangers, because they publish strange Doctrine: Be not carried about with divers and strange Doctrines. The Doctrine of Christ is one and the same, being immutable, can suffer 1no Change or Alteration; but these bring in a new Doctrine, not known in the Primitive Days, not taught by Christ or his Apostles, nor received in the purest Times of the Gospel before Corruptions crept into the Church.
They will not hear the Voice of Strangers, or the Doctrine of false Teachers.