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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.
5thly. The Saints of God may fall, so as to break all their Bones, and grievously to wound their own Consciences: O Lord, 1heal me, for my Bones are vexed. My Soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long? My Pain and Anguish is bitter by the Burden of my Sin and Sense of thy Anger. Again, he saith, My ⟨p. 164⟩Strength faileth, because of mine Iniquities; and my Bones are consumed. 2I am feeble and sore broken. Elsewhere he speaks, as if all his Bones were broken, all his Strength was gone: Bones, we know, are the Strength of the Body, from thence the Metaphor seems to be taken. Now that is a grievous Fall, which breaks all the Bones.
- 1Saints may fall and break all their Bones. Psal. 6. 2, 3.
- 2Psal. 31. 10. Psal 38. 8.
6thly. The Saints, or Sheep of Christ, may so fall, or to such 1a degree lose the exercise of their Faith and Hope in God, as to be deprived of the Light of God's Countenance, and the Joy of his Salvation; Restore to me the Joy of thy Salvation: Nay, may wholly be in Darkness for a time, or have no Light: 2He hath kindled his Wrath against me; and he counteth me to him as one of his Enemies. I am gone, ver. 10. I am a lost Man, as if he should say, Thou hast laid me in the lowest Pit, in Darkness, in the Deeps. Free among the Dead, like the slain that lie in the Grave, whom thou rememberest no more; and they are cut off from thy Hand.—That walk in Darkness, and have no Light. I do not say that Desertion is always the Fruit and Punishment of Sin, though sometimes it is;