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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
If falsifiers of Coin are liable unto the Civil Curse of the Law, how much more shall the Anathema of Eternal Damnation be inflicted upon the corrupters of God's word and worship. To them that add thereto, God will add all the Plagues of this book, (to wit, the seven last Plagues) and cast them into the lake of sire and brimsion•, 1with the Dragon, the Beast, and the false Prophet. Now they that suffer for asserting that God will not bear with mixtures in his Worship and Service, but revenge himself upon the corrupters of his Worship and Service; they have a good cause, and they suffer as Christians, for well doing. But
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Sixthly, They who are hated, scorned, despised, reproached, §6opposed, persecuted, imprisoned, ruined, for their non-compliance1 with the times, and with the wills and lasts of men, and with the worship of the world, and the ways of the world; they have a good cause, and they suffer as Christians, for well doing: And is not this the very case of the people of God this day; for would they (or durst they) comply with the times, and with the wills and lusts of men, and with the worship of the world, and the ways of the world, they should be white boys; and in lead of prisons, might stand in Princes Palaces as well as others; and might eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and live at ease, and grow rich as well as others. But some do not love▪ that we should either harp hard or long upon this string; and therefore,
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