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A golden key to open hidden treasures, or, Several great points that refer to…
A golden key to open hidden treasures, or, Several great points that refer to the saints present blessedness and their future happiness, with the resolution of several important questions here you have also the active and passive obedience of Christ vindicated and improved ... : you have farther eleven serious singular pleas, that all sincere Christians may safely and groundedly make to those ten Scriptures in the Old and New Testament, that speak of the general judgment, and of that particular judgment, that must certainly pass upon them all immediately after death ... / by Tho. Brooks ...
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
Serious and Weighty QUESTIONS, CLEARLY And Satisfactorily Answered.
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.
13thly: Universal Obedience speaks out the strength of our love to Christ, and the reality of our friendship §13with Christ, Joh. 15. 14. Ye are my Friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. That Child shows most love to his Father, that observes all his precepts; and that Servant shows most love to his Master, that observes all his Masters commands, and that Wife shows most love to her Husband, that observes all he requires in the Lord: So here, &c.
13thly: Universal Obedience speaks out the strength of our love to Christ, and the reality of our friendship §13with Christ, Joh. 15. 14. Ye are my Friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. That Child shews most love to his Father, that observes all his precepts; and that Servant shews most love to his Master, that observes all his Masters commands, and that Wife shews most love to her Husband, that observes all he requires in the Lord: So here, &c.
14thly. Universal Obedience will give most peace, §14rest, quiet, and comfort to the Conscience. Such a Christian will be as an eye that hath no Mote to trouble it; as a Kingdom that hath no Rebel to annoy it; as a Ship that hath no leak to disturb it, Psal. 119. 165. Great peace have they which love thy Law, and nothing shall offend them. But