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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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Fifthly and lastly, we read of a Second Covenant, Heb. §510. 9. Rom. 9. 4. Gal. 4. 24. Eph. 2. 12. And we read of a New Covenant, Jer. 31. 31. Behold the days come, saith 1the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: So Heb. 8. 8. I will make a new covenant, &c. vers. 13. In that he saith a new covenant, he hath made the first old, &c. Heb. 12. 24. And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, &c. Now if there be a Second Covenant, then we may safely conclude there was a First; and if there be a New Covenant, then ⟨p. 17⟩we may boldly conclude that there was an Old Covenant: A Covenant of Grace always supposeth a Covenant of Works: I know there is a repetition of the Covenant of Works with Adam, in the Law of Moses; as in that of2 the Apostle to the Galatians, The Law is not of faith, but the man that doth these things, shall live in them. The Law requires works, and promiseth no life to those that will be justified by faith. In the first Covenant, three3 things are observable; 1. The precept, That continueth not in all things; the precept requires perfect, personal and perpetual obedience: 2. The promise, Live, the man that doth them shall live; live happily, blessedly, cheerfully, everlastingly: 3. The curse in case of transgression, Cursed is every one, that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law, to do them: One sin, and that but in thought, broke the Angel's Covenant,