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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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Ninthly, They that plead for the reduction of all Ordinances, §9Worship, Church Government, and Discipline, to the primitive pattern and institution, in opposition to all Humane and Antichristian Inventions, Traditions and Innovations in the Worship of God, they have a good Cause; and they that suffer upon that account, suffer as Christians, for well doing: Surely this is a truth we must live and die by; viz. That no Ordinance, Worship, Government or Discipline is to be held up or maintained in the Church, but what has the stamp of a Divine Institution upon it. The worshipping of God in Spirit and in Truth, is that Worship1 which God commands, commends, accepts and rewards: And therefore let us make it our business, our work, our heaven, to keep close to this kind of Worship; Christ will shortly come in2 flames of fire, and vindicate this kind of Worship against all opposers. Hold out Faith and Patience a little, and Christ will call all the troublers of his Church and People into the Valley of Decision;3 and there, with a strong hand, and with an out-stretched arm, he will plead with them, and with all such as have muddied the Waters of his Sanctuary, and polluted those Silver Streams; and then it will appear whether the outward ceremonious worshipping of God, or the worshipping him in Spirit and in Truth, be the true Worship. Judicious Hooker determines, that in God's Service to do that which we are not to do, is a greater fault, than not to do that which we are commanded. Amongst other reasons, he gives this to our purpose; because in the one we seem to charge the Law of God with hardness only, and in the other, with foolishness and insufficiency; which God gave us as a perfect Rule of his Worship and Service. But
Ninthly, They that plead for the reduction of all Ordinances, §9Worship, Church Government, and Discipline, to the primitive pattern and institution, in opposition to all Humane and Antichristian Inventions, Traditions and Innovations in the Worship of God, they have a good Cause; and they that suffer upon that account, suffer as Christians, for well doing: Surely this is a truth we must live and die by; viz. That no Ordinance, Worship, Government or Discipline is to be held up or maintained in the Church, but what has the stamp of a Divine Institution upon it. The worshipping of God in Spirit and in Truth, is that Worship