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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)

THE BLESSEDNESS OF Christ's Sheep, &c. › JOHN X. 27. My Sheep hear my Voice, and I know them, and they follow…: JOHN X. 27. My Sheep hear my Voice, and I know them, and they follow me.THE BLESSEDNESS OF Christ's Sheep, &c. › JOHN X. 27. My Sheep hear my Voice, and I know them, and they follo…: JOHN X. 27. My Sheep hear my Voice, and I know them, 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.

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The Saints are profitable to others many ways. (1.) By that heavenly Doctrine they maintain and hold forth. (2.) By the fervent and profitable Prayers they make and send up to God on all Occasions. (3.) By that holy and good Example which they set for all those they converse with, and live among. (4.) And at their death, by Martyrdom, great Profit hath been received; from whence the Proverb rose, That the Blood of the Martyrs was the Seed of the Church. Believers bring Glory to God, and Profit unto Men.

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5. Sheep are tractable and obedient, being ready to follow their Shepherd whithersoever he goeth. It is the Custom in some Countries for the Shepherd in leading the Sheep, to go out before them; to which practice our Saviour doth here allude: So Believers are obedient to Jesus Christ, they are tractable, and learn to follow him; My Sheep hear my Voice, and they follow me. Thou shalt guide ¹me (saith David) by thy Counsel. Christ's Precepts are the Saints Directory, and his Practice their Pattern. Hence Paul exhorted the Corinthians, to follow him as he followed Christ. Ministers are to be followed and imitated, no further than they follow and imitate Jesus Christ.

1Psal. 73. 24.

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6. Sheep love to feed in green Pastures; in clean and wholesome Fields or Meadows. So do the Saints and People of God love sound and wholesome Truths, good Doctrine, Food that is fit and proper for their precious Souls; they must not, will not feed in the Soul-rotting Pastures of Mens Inventions, nor on the corrupt Glosses of cloudy Doctors that lived in the dark Times of the Church. The Spouse from hence enquires of Christ where he

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Benjamin Keach 1640–1704

Place

London

Printer

the author

Year

1694

Size

[11], 500, [7] p. : port.

Words

227,223

Catalogue

Wing K69 · ESTC R18541

Text

EEBO-TCP A47542

Passages

2,274

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36