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Paradise opened, or, The secrets, mysteries, and rarities of divine love, of infinite wisdom,…Paradice opened, or, The secreets, mysteries, and rarities of divine love, of infinite wisdom,…
Paradise opened, or, The secrets, mysteries, and rarities of divine love, of infinite wisdom, and of wonderful counsel laid open to public view also, the covenant of grace, and the high and glorious transactions of the Father and the Son in the covenant of redemption opened and improved at large, with the resolution of divers important questions and cases concerning both covenants ... : being the second and last part of The golden key / by Thomas Brooks ...Paradice opened, or, The secreets, mysteries, and rarities of divine love, of infinite wisdom, and of wonderful counsel laid open to publick view also, the covenant of grace, and the high and glorious transactions of the Father and the Son in the covenant of redemption opened and improved at large, with the resolution of divers important questions and cases concerning both covenants ... : being the second and last part of The golden key / by Thomas Brooks ...
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
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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.
yet, it is too precious to lay down in any cause, but what is honourable, just & good Luther professed to Spalatine, that he rejoiced with all his heart, that God called him to suffer for so1 good a cause, acknowledging himself unworthy of such a favour. It is the goodness of a man's cause that makes him divinely merry with the Martyrs, & to sing in a prison with Paul & Silas: When a man's cause is good, he may call his sufferings the sufferings of Christ, and2 his scars and marks; [Greek or Hebrew], brands and marks of the Lord Jesus. The Jews have been hated & persecuted for many Ages; first by the Romans, and since by all other nations, but not for any just or righteous cause, but for their impiety, obstinacy and contempt of Christ & his3 Gospel, & for killing the Prophets, & stoning them that were sent amongst them. But gracious persons are endued, not only with reason, but also with spiritual understanding, & divine wisdom, which makes ⟨image 24⟩them well weigh what they do, & what they suffer: Sincere Christians advisedly endure what they endure for the faith's sake (so fight I 4not as one that beateth the air) that is, not as a mad man that fighteth with a shadow, not weighing what he doth; but as a man of understanding, that doth very well know that I have good cause to do what I do. Persecutors commonly judge suffering Saints to be no better than Sots, Idiots, Franticks, mad, &c. not knowing the goodness of the cause for which they suffer, nor the noble ends which they aim at in suffering, nor the blessed fruits that attend their sufferings.
yet, it is too precious to lay down in any cause, but what is honourable, just & good Luther professed to Spalatine, that he rejoyced with all his heart, that God called him to suffer for so1 good a cause, acknowledging himself unworthy of such a favour. It is the goodness of a man's cause that makes him divinely merry with the Martyrs, & to sing in a prison with Paul & Silas: When a man's cause is good, he may call his sufferings the sufferings of Christ, and