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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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Fourthly, Death will free you from all those troubles, §4calamities, miseries, mischiefs and desolations, that are1 a coming upon the earth, or upon this place or that. A year after Methuselah's death, the Flood came, and carried away the old world: Augustine died a little before the sacking of Hippo: Luther observes that all the Apostles died before the destruction of Jerusalem: And Luther himself died a little before the Wars brake forth in Germany. Dear Lady, death shall do that for you, which all your Physicians could never do for you, which all your Relations could never do for you, which all Ordinances could never do for you, nor which all your faithful Ministers could never do for you; it shall both instantly and perfectly cure you of all sorts of Maladies and weaknesses both inward and outward, or that respects either your body or your soul, or both. Oh, my dear friend, is it not better to die, and be rid of all sin; to die, and be rid of all temptations and desertions; to die, and be rid of all sorts of miseries; than to live, and still carry about with us our sins, our burdens, and such constant ailments, as takes away all the pleasure and comfort of life? Here both our outward and inward conditions are very various; sometimes heaven is open, and2 sometimes heaven is shut; sometimes we see the face of God, and rejoice, and at other times he hides his face, and we are troubled: O, but now death will bring us to an invariable Eternity. It is always day in heaven, and joy in heaven.
Fourthly, Death will free you from all those troubles, §4calamities, miseries, mischiefs and desolations, that are1 a coming upon the earth, or upon this place or that. A year after Methuselah's death, the Flood came, and carried away the old world: Augustine died a little before the sacking of Hippo: Luther observes that all the Apostles died before the destruction of Jerusalem: And Luther himself died a little before the Wars brake forth in Germany. Dear Lady, death shall do that for you, which all your Physicians could never do for you, which all your Relations could never do for you, which all Ordinances could never do for you, nor which all your faithful Ministers could never do for you; it shall both instantly and perfectly cure you of all sorts of Maladies and weaknesses both inward and outward, or that respects either your body or your soul, or both. Oh, my dear friend, is it not better to die, and be rid of all sin; to die, and be rid of all temptations and desertions; to die, and be rid of all sorts of miseries; than to live, and still carry about with us our sins, our burdens, and such constant ailments, as takes away all the pleasure and comfort of life? Here both our outward and inward conditions are very various; sometimes heaven is open, and