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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.
First, When the Truth will suffer, and the Name of God suffer, §1and the Gospel will suffer should we decline suffering, then we are called to su••er; 'tis our duty to suffer any thing, to suffer the worst of things that the worst of men can inflict, rather than that the Truth should suffer, or the name of God suffer, or the Gospel suffer.
First, When the Truth will sufer, and the Name of God suffer, §1and the Gospel will suffer should we decline suffering, then we are called to su••er; 'tis our duty to suffer any thing, to suffer the worst of things that the worst of men can inflict, rather than that the Truth should suffer, or the name of God suffer, or the Gospel suffer.
Secondly, When the case stands so with us, that we cannot §2keep Life, Estate, Liberty, &c. without denying of Christ or the Gospel, or without concealing this precious Truth or that, or without turning our backs upon this Ordinance or that, &c. then we are called to suffer when we cannot preserve our Lives, our Liberties, our Estates, without denying of Christ, or the Concerns of Christ, in one degree or another, in one kind or another; then we are called to lay down our Lives, our Liberties, our Estates, &c. at the feet of Christ, as the Saints and Martyrs of old have done before us.
Thirdly, when our way is so hedged up with thorns, that we §3