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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.
Fifthly, They who assert that God will not bear with mixtures §5in his worship and service, but revenge himself upon the corrupters of his worship, they have a good cause; and they that suffer upon that account, suffer as Christians for well doing. All mixtures1 debase the worship and service of God, and makes the worship a vain worship, as the mixing of water with wine is the debasing of the wine; and the mixing of Tin with Silver, or Brass with Gold, is debasing of the Silver and Gold; so for men to mix and mingle their Traditions and Inventions with God's Institutions, is to debase the worship and service of God, and to detract from the excellency and glory of it. You know that the Kings and Princes of the world have most severely punished such, who by their base mixtures, have embased their Coin. And assuredly there is a day a coming, when the King of Kings will most severely punish all such who have embased his worship and service, by mixing Humane Inventions and Romish Traditions with his holy Institutions, Rev. 22. 18. For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the Prophecy of this book; if any man shall add unto ⟨image 26⟩these things, God shall add unto him the Plagues that are written in 2this book. And no wonder; for what horrible pride, presumption, stoutness and baseness is it in foolish man, to be so bold with the great God, as to dare to mix any thing of his own with his worship and service, which, according to Divine Institution, is so perfect and complete. God will never bear it, to see men lay their Dirt upon his Gold, and to put their Rags upon his Royal Robes. Ah Christians, 'tis best to stand up for holy Ordinances and pure worship, in opposition to all mixtures whatsoever. Oh, do not touch a polluted worship, do not plead and contend for a polluted worship, but let Baal plead for Baal; and though all3 the world should wander after the Beast, yet do not you wander after the Beast; and though every forehead should have the mark of the Beast upon it, yet do you abhor his mark, and whatever else it be that does but smell and savour of the Beast. 'Tis a very dangerous thing for any Mortals to be adding to God's worship and word; there is a horrible curse that hangs over the heads of all such that add or detract from the blessed Scriptures.