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A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God's rich grace displayed in the…

Name: A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God's rich grace displayed in the…
Author: Benjamin Keach

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.

Benjamin Keach 1640–1704London: printed by the author, 1694

[11], 500, [7] p. : port. · 227k words · Wing K69 · ESTC R18541

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

A Trumpet blown in Zion, OR An Alarm in God's Holy Mountain: Cont… › MATTH. III. 12. Whose Fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purr…: MATTH. III. 12. Whose Fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and ga…A Trumpet blown in Zion, OR An Allarum in God's Holy Mountain: Cont… › MATTH. III. 12. Whose Fan is in his hand, and he will throughly pur…: MATTH. III. 12. Whose Fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and ga…

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.

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But I shall pass by that, and shall explain the Terms. 1. Show you what is intended by Christs Floor. 2. What is intended by the Fan in his hand, by which he doth purge his Floor. 3. What is meant by the Chaff, and why so called. 4. What is intended by the Wheat, and why so called. 5. What we are to understand by Christs Garner, and gathering the Wheat into it. 6. And lastly, what is intended by the Fire, and by Burning up the Chaff.

But I shall pass by that, and shall explain the Terms. 1. Shew you what is intended by Christs Floor. 2. What is intended by the Fan in his hand, by which he doth purge his Floor. 3. What is meant by the Chaff, and why so called. 4. What is intended by the Wheat, and why so called. 5. What we are to understand by Christs Garner, and gathering the Wheat into it. 6. And lastly, what is intended by the Fire, and by Burning up the Chaff.

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¹First, I said before our Text is Metaphorical, therefore no doubt by floor the holy Ghost alludes to that which in common acception is well understood by Husbandmen, i. e. A floor is a heap of Corn, that is threshed out of the Straw, and laid in a Barn, Wheat and Chaff together; this usually is called a floor.

1Terms opened.

:36p. 3

Quest. But what is intended or meant by it here? what is Christs floor, which he is said to purge?

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