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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.
So this word [Greek or Hebrew], Berith, Covenant, seems to sound as much as [Greek or Hebrew], Kerith, a smiting or striking, because of sacrifices slain in covenanting. Hence the word Covenant is ⟨p. 7⟩often joined witst [Greek or Hebrew], Karath, which signifies striking of Covenant. An example of this beyond all exception1 (saith my Author) is in that sacrifice, wherein God, by Moses, made a Covenant with all the people of Israel, and bound them to obey his Law; the description of it is in Exod. 24. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. And Moses wrote all the wards of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an Altar under the hill, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the children 2of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto the Lord. And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the Altar. And he took the book of the Covenant and read in the audience of the people; and they said, all that the Lord hath said, will we do, and be obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the Covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words. I shall not3 trouble my reader with that mystical and too curious a sense, that some of the Ancients put upon these words: the historical sense is here more fit: For in this Ceremony of dividing the blood in two parts, and so besprinkling the Altar with the one half, which represented God; and the people with the other, between whom the Covenant was confirmed; the old use in striking of Covenants, is observed: For the ancient custom was, that they which made a League or Covenant, divided some beast, and put the parts asunder, walking in the midst; signifying, that as the beast was divided, so they should be, which brake the Covenant: So when Saul went against the Ammonites, coming out of the field, he hewed two Oxen, and sent them into all the coasts of Israel; expressing the4