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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.
3. By the Saints, I mean, those who are effectually called, regenerated, justified, sanctified, and adopted; these are the Sheep of Christ that shall never perish, but have Everlasting Life. They are not all such that are of his Fold or Church on Earth, not all the Members of the visible Church, but all the Members of the invisible Church, or mystical Body of Christ.
Secondly, I shall show you how far the Saints may fall.
Secondly, I shall shew you how far the Saints may fall.
1st. They may, if they take not heed, fall into great Evils, nay 1into most of the worst and abominable Sins any Mortals do commit and are overcome by.
- 1Saints may fall into great and grievous Evils.
Noah was a Saint of God, yet he fell grievously by drinking too much Wine: Noah began to be an Husbandman, and he planted a Vineyard, and he drank of the Wine and was drunken. Though it