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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.
6. What abundance of carnal Worldlings, covetous and Earthly-minded Wretches are there also, whose gain is their Godliness, who value no Religion, but what suits with their filthy Lusts! some of these set up for Preachers, merely for their Earthly gain, and make a Trade of it, living profane and ungodly Lives, being Guilty almost of all manner of gross and abominable Sins, preferring humane Rites and Ceremonies above Christs Institutions, and a Form of Godliness above the Power of it.
6. What abundance of carnal Worldlings, covetous and Earthly-minded Wretches are there also, whose gain is their Godliness, who value no Religion, but what suits with their filthy Lusts! some of these set up for Preachers, meerly for their Earthly gain, and make a Trade of it, living prophane and ungodly Lives, being Guilty almost of all maner of gross and abominable Sins, preferring humane Rites and Ceremonies above Christs Institutions, and a Form of Godliness above the Power of it.
7. Besides, what a heap have we among us, of Traitorous, blind and deceitful Persons, who seek to betray the Protestant Interest, and all our Civil and Religious Liberties, into the hands of the common Enemy; who neither Fear God, nor Honour the King! As also what a multitude of Thieves, High-waymen, House-breakers, and bloody Villains, skulk and hide themselves in this heap! The very mentioning of these things is enough to grieve and wound our very Souls, considering how good and gracious God hath been to us in this Land; ⟨p. 7⟩and what a Nation this hath been, and what Wonders the Almighty hath formerly and of late times wrought for us, I mean for the Land in general. May we not fear that the Fanner will come with his Fan, and sever the Chaff in his direful Indignation from the Wheat, and let the Fire of his Anger seize upon it and burn it up? what can we expect but some amazing and fearful Judgments from the Lord, unless a National Repentance and Reformation, like that of Nineveh, doth speedily prevent it?