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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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but by virtue of Christ promised to man in the new Covenant, he will keep touch with man so long as mankind hath a being on the earth, In this first Covenant, God promised unto man life and happiness, Lordship over all the creatures, liberty to use them, and all other blessings which his heart could desire, to keep him in that happy estate, wherein he was created. And man was bound to God, to walk in perfect righteousness, to observe and keep God's Commandments, and to obey his will in all things, which were within the reach of his nature, and so far as was revealed to him: In the first Covenant, God revealed himself to man, as one God, Creator and Governor of all things, infinite in power, wisdom, goodness, nature and substance. God was man's good Lord, and man was God's good servant; God dearly loved man, and man greatly loved God with all his heart; there was not the least shadow, or occasion of hatred or enmity between them; there was nothing but mutual love, mutual delight, mutual content, and mutual satisfaction, between God and man: Man, in his primitive glory, needed no Mediator, to come between God and him; man was perfect, pure, upright and good, created after God's own image; and the nearer he came to God, the greater was his joy and comfort: God's presence now, was man's great delight; ⟨p. 15⟩and it was man's heaven on earth, to walk with God. But,
but by vertue of Christ promised to man in the new Covenant, he will keep touch with man so long as mankind hath a being on the earth, In this first Covenant, God promised unto man life and happiness, Lordship over all the creatures, liberty to use them, and all other blessings which his heart could desire, to keep him in that happy estate, wherein he was created. And man was bound to God, to walk in perfect righteousness, to observe and keep God's Commandments, and to obey his will in all things, which were within the reach of his nature, and so far as was reveiled to him: In the first Covenant, God reveiled himself to man, as one God, Creator and Governour of all things, infinite in power, wisdom, goodness, nature and substance. God was man's good Lord, and man was God's good servant; God dearly loved man, and man greatly loved God with all his heart; there was not the least shadow, or occasion of hatred or enmity between them; there was nothing but mutual love, mutual delight, mutual content, and mutual satisfaction, between God and man: Man, in his primitive glory, needed no Mediator, to come between God and him; man was perfect, pure, upright and good, created after God's own image; and the nearer he came to God, the greater was his joy and comfort: God's presence now, was man's great delight;