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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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and yet having some life left in him, he was brained with a Fuller's club. Lebbeus was slain by Agbarus, King of Odessa. And Paul was beheaded at Rome by Nero. And Simon the Canaanite was crucified in Egypt, say some; others say that he and Jude were slain in a tumult of the people. And Matthias 1was stoned to death. And John was banished into Patmos; and afterwards, as some Histories tell us, he was by that cruel Tyrant Domitian, cast into a tub of scalding oil, and yet delivered by a Miracle. Thus all these Worthies, of whom this world was not2 worthy, (except John) died violent deaths; and so through sufferings, entered into Glory. To conclude; Lactantius saith, not3 only the men among the Christians, and those of stronger years and hearts▪ but even our Women, and little Children (saith he) have endured all torments, and been too hard for their tormentors: No rack, no fire could fetch so much as a groan from them; which the stoutest Thieves and Malefactors among their Persecutors could not undergo; but they would roar and cry out through impatience, and disability to endure them. I suppose that more cruel torments cannot be invented, than of old have been inflicted on Christians: Persecutors have acknowledged, that they were4 overcome, and had no more to inflict. Such Tortures and Torments, so courageously and manfully, have sundry Christians in all Ages suffered; as to them who only heard thereof, they seemed incredible; and to many who were eye-witnesses thereof, they seemed so strange, and beyond admiration, as they thought the Martyrs to be mad, witless and senseless: But the Martyrs had peace, and rest, and quiet within; and the favourable Presence of God so shining upon their souls, that they were encouraged and enabled with a holy and heavenly bravery of Spirit, to bid defiance to their most cruel Persecutors.
and yet having some life left in him, he was brained with a Fuller's club. Lebbeus was slain by Agbarus, King of •dessa. And Paul was beheaded at Rome by Nero. And Simon the Canaanite was crucified in Egypt, say some; others say that he and Jude were slain in a tumult of the people. And Mattkias