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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. He also makes his Love manifest to them, by his gentle leading of them: He shall gently lead them that are with young. He will not 1lead them faster than they are able to go, or lay more upon them than they can bear; nay, he gives Strength to them, and supports their Souls under all their Troubles and Sorrows. Jacob was a compassionate Shepherd; If I over-drive them, (saith he) all the 2Flock will die. Christ had many things to tell his Disciples, but ⟨p. 125⟩they were not able to bear them: He lets out or discovers his precious Truth to his People, according as he knows they are able to receive it and take it in: You shall not have harder Things, Trials, Temptations nor Afflictions, than your strength is. There 3hath no Temptation taken you, but what is common to Man: and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able; but will with the Temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
7. His infinite Love and Bowels are made known also to his Sheep by his feeding them, as well as it is by his leading them. He feeds them with choice Food, he gives them his own Flesh to eat, and his own precious Blood to drink, knowing that except he doth this, they must perish for ever: This was that strange Doctrine in the Eyes of the Jews, which they could not receive nor understand.