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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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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.
Adam was invested and endowed with righteousness and holiness in his first glorious estate; with righteousness, that he might carry it fairly, justly, evenly and ⟨p. 18⟩righteously towards man; and with holiness, that he1 might carry it wisely, lovingly, reverentially and holily towards God, and that he might take up in God as his chiefest good, as in his great ALL. I shall not now stand upon the discovery of Adam's Beauty, Authority, Dominion, Dignity, Honour and Glory, with which he was adorned, invested and crowned in innocency: Let this satisfy, that Adam's first estate, was a state of perfect2 knowledge, wisdom and understanding; it was a perfect state of holiness, righteousness and happiness; there was nothing within him, but what was desirable and delectable; there was nothing without him, but what was amiable and commendable; nor nothing about him, but what was serviceable and comfortable. Adam, in his innocent estate, was the wonder of all understanding, the mirror of wisdom and knowledge, the image of God, the delight of heaven, the glory of the Creation, the world's great Lord, and the Lord's great darling: Upon all these accounts, he had no need of a Mediator. And let thus much suffice to have spoken concerning the first Covenant of works, that was between God and Adam in innocency. But,