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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.
They come therefore into Christ's Hand, upon the same Considerations by which they came to be his Sheep; which (as I have already opened) was seven manner of ways, viz. 1. By Election. 2. By that holy Covenant or Compact made between the Father and the Son. 3. By the Father's free Donation they were given into his Hand, delivered to him by the Father. 4. By Purchase he bought them, and so they came into his Hand. 5. By Regeneration or Transformation he hath wrought his Image upon them, and so brought them into his Hand. 6. By Conquest, he fought for them, and conquered their Enemies, and subdued their own filthy and rebellious Hearts, and so they came into his Hand. 7. They by a holy Resignation of themselves, (as being overcome by his Divine Grace) yielded themselves up into his Hands. So that he hath a sevenfold hold of them.
Secondly, Their being in Christ's Hand, denotes
1. His personal possession of them, he being now entered upon the actual Administration of his Pastoral Office.
2. It denotes the present actual Charge he hath taken of them, he having gathered and brought them home to his own Fold, and put them into his own Pasture.