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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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there is no sin that does so greatly incense and provoke God to Jealousy and Wrath against a People, as mixtures in his Worship. God can bear with defilements any where, rather than in Worship and Service. God did bear much, and bear long with the Jews ⟨image 25⟩b• when they had defiled and corrupted his worship, then God gave them a Bill of Divorce, and scattered them as Dung among the Nations. Now, when a man suffers for refusing to worship God with a mixed worship, or with an invented or devised worship, which Christ in his word doth every where condemn; then his cause is good, and he suffers as a Christian. But
there is no sin that does so greatly incense and provoke God to Jealousie and Wrath against a People, as mixtures in his Worship. God can bear with defilements any where, rather than in Worship and Service. God did bear much, and bear long with the Jews ⟨image 25⟩b• when they had defiled and corrupted his worship, then God gave them a Bill of Divorce, and scattered them as Dung among the Nations. Now, when a man suffers for refusing to worship God with a mixt worship, or with an invented or devised worship, which Christ in his word doth every where condemn; then his cause is good, and he suffers as a Christian. But
Thirdly, they that stoutly and resolutely assert that the blessed §31Scriptures are a sufficient rule to order, guide and direct them in all matters of worship, they have a good cause; and they that suffer upon this account, suffer as Christians, for well doing: Such vain men greatly detract from the sufficiency of the Scripture, who mingle their own or other men's inventions, with