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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 God's People have (through the Operation of Divine Grace) their unclean and filthy Nature changed; that brutish, perverse and swinish Disposition which they brought into the World with them, is gone: Such were some of you, but you are ⟨p. 108⟩washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the Name of 1the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. Sheep are of a clean Nature, they like not to wallow in the Mire as Swine do: So the Saints have a clean and holy Nature wrought in their Souls, or spiritual Habits infused through the renewing of the Holy Ghost, having obtained a true Righteousness, in which they stand justified, and appear without Spot before God, even in the perfect Righteousness of Jesus Christ, which is counted to them for Righteousness to their Justification, and are sanctified through the Spirit of Holiness.
2. Sheep are a harmless and innocent sort of Creatures; not crafty like the Fox, nor devouring like the Lion. So the Saints are harmless and innocent, they seek the Hurt of no Man, but desire to live peaceably in the Land, and not like Romish Wolves, who delight in nothing more than in Blood and Rapine: They are like unto their Master, (or ought so to be) i. e. holy, harmless, &c. They are simple concerning Evil, Children in Malice, though Men in Understanding: They are not like the ungodly ones of the World, 1who are full of Wrath, Hatred and Revenge; they are so far from this, that if they arrive at their true Character, they will speak Evil of no Man, but pray for their Enemies, and for such that hate them.
2. Sheep are a harmless and innocent sort of Creatures; not crafty like the Fox, nor devouring like the Lion. So the Saints are harmless and innocent, they seek the Hurt of no Man, but desire to live peaceably in the Land, and not like Romish Wolves, who delight in nothing more than in Blood and Rapine: They are like unto their Master, (or ought so to be) i. e. holy, harmless, &c. They are simple concerning Evil, Children in Malice, though Men in Vnderstanding: They are not like the ungodly ones of the World,