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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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Seventhly, They that are assertors of Christ, of the true Messiah, §7and his glorious Gospel, and Gospel-ordinances, in opposition to all such as either deny him or his Gospel, or that make head ⟨image 27⟩against him or Gospel-ordinances, Gospel-administrations, they have a good cause; and if they suffer upon that account, they suffer as Christians, for well doing. The sufferings of the people of God for the first three hundred years, were clearly stated for Christ and the Gospel in common. 'Twas the administration of the Gospel in the whole, and in every part of it, and Gentilism advanced instead thereof, that brought on a warm Persecution. Seeing serious Christians are for pure Ordinances, and pure Administrations; and what they have suffered, and do daily suffer upon that account, all that do not wilfully shut their eyes, may easily discern. 'Tis sad when such men's mouths must be stopped, who are qualified, gifted, graced and called, both by God and1 men, to preach the glorious, the everlasting Gospel: But when the Devil and his Factors have done their worst, the Gospel will get ground by all the opposition that is made against it. Among many other Visions that John had, He saw an Angel fly in the 2midst of heaven, having the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth; and to every Nation, and Rindred, and Tongue, and People; saying with a loud voice, fear God, and give glory to him, &c. Now mark what next follows; Another Angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; Babylon the Great is fallen. Now, behold the efficacy and power of Gospel-preaching; let but the Gospel be sincerely preached, and Babylon must down. The Devil and Dagon must fall before the Ark of God's Presence;3 whatsoever the purposes, projects, pretences, policies, conspiracies, combinations, and confederacies, of lewd, superstitious, Atheistical, wicked wretches be, yet they shall never be able to stop the stream of God's Word, dam up the Wells of Salvation, or hinder the free passage of the Gospel, no more than they are able to bind up the Wind in their fists, or stop the Sun from running its race, or hinder the Clouds from watering the earth.