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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.
Dear Lady, and Sister in the Lord;
I Shall now address my self to you in a few lines, and so conclude. I know you have for many years been the Lord's Prisoner. Great have been your Trials, and many have been your Trials, and long have been your Trials; but to all these I have spoken at large in my Treatise called The mute Christian under the smarting Rod, which you have in your hand, which you have read, and which God has greatly blessed, to the support, comfort, quiet and refreshment of your soul under all your Trials; and therefore I shall say no more as to those Particulars: But knowing that the many weaknesses that hang upon you, and the decays of Nature that daily do attend you, seem to point out an approaching dissolution; I shall at this time give you this one word of Counsel, viz. That every day you would look upon Death in a Scripture glass, in a Scripture-dress, or under a Scripture-notion: That is,
I Shall now address my self to you in a few lines, and so conclude. I know you have for many years been the Lord's Prisoner. Great have been your Trials, and many have been your Trials, and long have been your Trials; but to all these I have spoken at large in my Treatise called The mute Christian under the smarting Rod, which you have in your hand, which you have read, and which God has greatly blessed, to the support, comfort, quiet and refreshment of your soul under all your Trials; and therefore I shall say no more as to those Particulars: But knowing that the many weaknesses that hang upon you, and the decays of Nature that dayly do attend you, seem to point out an approaching dissolution; I shall at this time give you this one word of Counsel, viz. That every day you would look upon Death in a Scriptureglass, in a Scripture-dress, or under a Scripture-notion: That is,
First, Look upon death as that which is best for a believer; §1