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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.
they suffer in a Righteous Cause, they suffer as Christians, for well doing. And thus you see how a man may know when his Cause is good, just and righteous; and when he suffers as a Christian, for well doing. But
Seventhly, Consider, That it is not enough for a man to have a §7good cause, but he must have a clear call; else he may be a sufferer, but no Martyr. Some may have a good Cause, and yet ⟨image 29⟩want a clear Call: Some may suffer for the cause of God, and yet sin in suffering, for want of a Call. Christ calls not all to suffer;1 to some it is given, to others it is not given. When a man's Call is clear, his Peace will be sweet, his courage will be high, and his comforts will be strong, though his sufferings be never so great, nor never so long. Though it be a high honour to suffer for the Gospel, yet no man ought to take this honour upon himself but he that is called of God. Christians must take as much heed how they espouse a suffering state, as how they shun a suffering state: I am not to go to prison upon choice, but upon a Call, but upon a Warrant under God's own hand; though it be an argument of a gracious Spirit, to be always of a ready and forward mind to suffer for Christ: And when he demands who will go2 with me? who will bear my Cross? cheerfully to answer, I will go Lord, let me bear it: yet should we take heed, that as we hang not back when he says go; so that we run not before he sends us, before he calls us.
Seventhly, Consider, That it is not enough for a man to have a §7good cause, but he must have a clear call; else he may be a sufferer, but no Martyr. Some may have a good Cause, and yet ⟨image 29⟩