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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
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.
But now the Lord Jesus was come, with his Fan in his hand, to separate the Wheat from the Chaff, and not let them remain any longer together on that floor, in that old Barn, i. e. in the Legal Jewish Church state, according to the external Covenant of peculiarity God made with Abraham, and his natural Seed as such: Which had stood near its full period of time prefixed by the Almighty, but now must be pulled down, Jesus Christ being come, and just a going to build a new spiritual Garner, or Gospel Church, to put all his choice Grain or Wheat into, viz. all believing and true penitent persons; this primarily I am satisfied is intended by floor: For the Jewish Church was not to abide or continue any longer than till the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, it being a Typical Church, when the Antitype was come that must needs vanish away.
But now the Lord Jesus was come, with his Fan in his hand, to separate the Wheat from the Chaff, and not let them remain any longer together on that floor, in that old Barn, i. e. in the Legal Jewish Church state, according to the external Covenant of peculiarity God made with Abraham, and his natural Seed as such: Which had stood near its full period of time perfixed by the Almighty, but now must be pulled down, Jesus Christ being come, and just a going to build a new spiritual Garner, or Gospel Church, to put all his choice Grain or Wheat into, viz. all believing and true penitent persons; this primarily I am satisfied is intended by floor: For the Jewish Church was not to abide or continue any longer than till the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, it being a Typical Church, when the Antytype was come that must needs vanish away.
2. Yet in a remote sense, floor may refer to any Spiritual Community, Church, or people, in the times of the Gospel; professing themselves to be Christians: Among which may be Chaff as well as Wheat: Evil and ungodly Persons, as well as Believers, gracious and true Religious ones; and the truth is, there is more than one floor of this sort in our days. For,
2. Yet in a remote sence, floor may refer to any Spiritual Community, Church, or people, in the times of the Gospel; professing themselves to be Christians: Among which may be Chaff as well as Wheat: Evil and ungodly Persons, as well as Believers, gracious and true Religious ones; and the truth is, there is more than one floor of this sort in our days. For,