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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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That which bred the Popish Religion, Superstition, Idolatry, and Pompous Worship, was men's departing from the word, and not cleaving to the word, as a sufficient rule to direct them in all matters of worship; and what woeful mischiefs and miseries have been brought upon the people of the Lord in this Land, and else where, by men that make not the word the rule of their worship, but cry up an outward pompous worship, I have no mind to enumerate at this time: But how will these vain men that accuse the holy Scriptures of insufficiency, blush, be ashamed, and confounded, when in the great day, the Lord shall plead the excellency, and vindicate the Sufficiency and Authority of his blessed Book, in opposition to all the mixtures of men's Traditions with Divine Institutions? Now, they that suffer for asserting the holy Scriptures to be a sufficient rule to order, guide and direct them in all matters of worship, they have a good Cause, and they suffer as Christians, for well doing. But
That which bred the Popish Religion, Superstition, Idolatry, and Pompous Worship, was men's departing from the word, and not cleaving to the word, as a sufficient rule to direct them in all matters of worship; and what woful mischiefs and miseries have been brought upon the people of the Lord in this Land, and else where, by men that make not the word the rule of their worship, but cry up an outward pompous worship, I have no mind to enumerate at this time: But how will these vain men that accuse the holy Scriptures of insufficiency, blush, be ashamed, and confounded, when in the great day, the Lord shall plead the excellency, and vindicate the Sufficiency and Authority of his blessed Book, in opposition to all the mixtures of men's Traditions with Divine Institutions? Now, they that suffer for asserting the holy Scriptures to be a sufficient rule to order, guide and direct them in all matters of worship, they have a good Cause, and they suffer as Christians, for well doing. But
They that are Assertors of the true God, in opposition to the Idols §4of the Nations, have a good Cause; and they that suffer upon this account, suffer as Christians, for well doing. Upon this foot, the Christians under the Heathen Emperors in the primitive times, suffered great things; and are there none that suffer this day upon this account by the Romish Powers. But