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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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Because that the greatest danger was in his transgression, which was the cause of the ruin of his posterity: 3. Because, as Mercerus well observes, Adam was the common name, both of the man and woman; Gen. 5. 2. and so is taken, vers, 15. And God, on his part, for the present, permits Adam to eat of all other trees of the Garden. And for the future (in his explicit threatening of death in case of disobedience) implicitly promiseth life, in case of obedience herein.
Because that the greatest danger was in his transgression, which was the cause of the ruine of his posterity: 3. Because, as Mercerus well observes, Adam was the common name, both of the man and woman; Gen. 5. 2. and so is taken, vers, 15. And God, on his part, for the present, permits Adam to eat of all other trees of the Garden. And for the future (in his explicite threatning of death in case of disobedience) implicity promiseth life, in case of obedience herein.
Secondly, the promises of this Covenant on God's part, §2were very glorious; First, that heaven, and earth, and all creatures, should continue in their natural course and order, wherein God had had created and placed them, serving always for man's use, and that man should have the benefit and Lordship of them all. Secondly, As for natural life, in respect of the body, Adam should have had perfection without defect, beauty without deformity, labour without weariness. Thirdly, as for spiritual life, Adam should never have known what it was to be under1 terrors and horrors of conscience, nor what a wounded spirit means, he should never have found the arrows of 2the Almighty sticking fa•l in him, nor the poison thereof drinking up his spirits, nor the terrors of God, to set themselves in array against him; nor he should never have tasted of death: Death is a fall that came in by a fall; had Adam never sinned, Adam had never died; had Adam stood fast in innocency, he should have been translated to glory without dissolution. Death came in by sin, and sin goeth out by death: As the worm kills the worm that bred it, so death […] sin that bred it. Now, where there are parties covenanting, promising, and agreeing upon terms, and terms mutually agreed upon by those parties,