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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.
Now Christians, if you compare your most cruel Sufferings with the Sufferings of the Saints of old, how easy and light will they be found to be? What are mole-hills to mountains, scratches upon the hand to slabs at the heart? no more are your greatest Sufferings, to those that the Saints have met with in former Ages And therefore, though men frown upon you, and threaten you with censures, Imprisonment, Banishment, Confiscation, and all the evil Humane might and cruelty can do unto you, yet be not moved; but account your selves happy, that you have any1 opportunity to do or suffer any thing, whereby you may testify that Christ and his Concerns do lie near your hearts; and whereby you may further his opposed Interest, and bear witness to his despised truth. But
Now Christians, if you compare your most cruel Sufferings with the Sufferings of the Saints of old, how easie and light will they be found to be? What are mole-hills to mountains, scratches upon the hand to slabs at the heart? no more are your greatest Sufferings, to those that the Saints have met with in former Ages And therefore, though men frown upon you, and threaten you with censures, Imprisonment, Banishment, Confiscation, and all the evil Humane might and cruelty can do unto you, yet be not moved; but account your selves happy, that you have any1 opportunity to do or suffer any thing, whereby you may testifie that Christ and his Concerns doe lie near your hearts; and whereby you may further his opposed Interest, and bear witness to his despised truth. But
Ninthly, Consider that the Saints and Martyrs of old have made ⟨image 31⟩