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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.
1. Because he entered into Covenant with the Father, as the great Surety of all the Sheep; by which he came under a legal Obligation to pay the just Debts, and to answer for the Defaults of all his Elect: And then and thereby he undertook to bring in and gather all the Sheep to God by the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant; by which Transaction he made our Peace, and reconciled 1us unto the Father.
2. Because he actually bought all the Sheep, in pursuit of the said glorious Covenant-Transactions, by the Price of his own Blood, that so he might unite them all unto himself in one Body.1
3. He may be called the chief and great Shepherd, because all the Sheep, or Elect of God, are given into his Hand, to keep, take care of, feed, heel, protect and preserve to Eternal Life. And this great Work and Office he hath undertaken, and doth and will perform with all Faithfulness, being every ways fitted, endeared and qualified, as Mediator and universal Shepherd and Head, to discharge it.