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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.
a smoking •ir• brand went between, representing God, signifying, that ⟨p. 8⟩so he should be divided, which violated the Covenant▪ So in this place, not much unlike; the blood is parted in twain, showing that so should his blood be shed, which kept not the Covenant. Fourthly, some derive the word Berith, from [Greek or Hebrew], Bara, to create; and the reason they give for this derivation is this, because the first state of creation was confirmed by the Covenant which God made with man, and all creatures were to be upheld by means of observing of the Law and condition of the Covenant; and that Covenant being broken by man, the world, made subject to ruin, is upheld; yea, and, as it were, created anew by the Covenant of grace in Christ. Fifthly, some derive the word Berith, from [Greek or Hebrew], Berath, which signifies firmness, sureness, because Covenants are firm and sure, and all things agreed on are confirmed and made sure by them; God's Covenant is a sure Covenant, Deut. 7. 9. The Lord thy God, he is the faithful God (or the God1 of Amen) which keepeth covenant with them that love him: Psal. 89. 34. My covenant will I not break (Hebrew, I will not profane) nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. All God's precepts, all God's predictions, all God's menaces, and all God's promises, are the issue of a most just, faithful and righteous will. There are three things that God cannot do: 1. He cannot die: 2. He cannot lie, Titus 1. 2. In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie, promised before the world began: 3. He cannot deny himself. Now the derivation of Berith, from the several roots specified, and not from one only, doth give much light to the point under consideration; and doth reconcile in one, all the several opinions of the learned, and justifies their several derivations, without rejecting or offering any wrong or disgrace to any.
a smoaking •ir brand went between, representing God, signifying, that