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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.
Secondly, Death will free you from all bodily infirmities §2and diseases; we carry about in our bodies the matter of a thousand deaths, and may die a thousand several1 ways each several hour: As many senses, as many members, nay, as many pores as there are in the body, so many windows there are for death to enter in at; death needs not spend all its arrows upon us; a worm, a gnat, a fly, a hair, the stone of a raisin, the kernel of a grape, the fall of a horse, the stumbling of a foot, the prick of a pin, the pairing of a nail, the cutting of a corn; all these have been to others, and any one of them may be to us, the means of our death, within the space of a few days, nay, of a few hours. Here Job had his Botches, and2 Hezekiah had his Boil, and David his Wounds, and Lazarus his Sores, and the poor Widow her Issue of Blood. Now the Fever burns up some, and the Dropsy drowns others, and the Vapours stifle others; one dies of an Apoplexy in the head, another of a Struma in the neck, a third of a Squinancy in the throat, and a fourth of a Cough and Consumption of the lungs; others of Obstructions, Inflammations, Pleurisies, Gouts, &c. We are commonly full of complaints; one complains of this distemper, and another of that; one of this disease, and another of that; but death will cure us of▪ all diseases and distempers at once. But
Secondly, Death will free you from all bodily infirmities §2and diseases; we carry about in our bodies the matter of a thousand deaths, and may die a thousand several1 ways each several hour: As many senses, as many members, nay, as many pores as there are in the body, so many windows there are for death to enter in at; death needs not spend all its arrows upon us; a worm, a gnat, a fly, a hair, the stone of a raisin, the kirnel of a grape, the fall of a horse, the stumbling of a foot, the prick of a pin, the pairing of a nail, the cutting of a corn; all these have been to others, and any one of them may be to us, the means of our death, within the space of a few days, nay, of a few hours. Here Job had his Botches, and