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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.
They are all promised upon our interest in Christ; this makes the promises sweet, because they lead us to Christ, the fountain of them; whose mouth is most sweet, and in whose person, all the sweets of all created beings do centre: 6. Because God hath promised to pour out a greater measure of his spirit, under the New Covenant, than he did under the old Covenant; Heb. 12. 24. And to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant. Thus you see that Christ is called, the mediator of the covenant, three several times: Now, he could not be the Mediator of that Covenant that is betwixt God and himself (of which more shortly) but of that Covenant, that is betwixt God and his people. But
They are all promised upon our interest in Christ; this makes the promises sweet, because they lead us to Christ, the fountain of them; whose mouth is most sweet, and in whose person, all the sweets of all created beings do center: 6. Because God hath promised to pour out a greater measure of his spirit, under the New Covenant, than he did under the old Covenant; Heb. 12. 24. And to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant. Thus you see that Christ is called, the mediator ef the covenant, three several times: Now, he could not be the Mediator of that Covenant that is betwixt God and himself (of which more shortly) but of that Covenant, that is betwixt God and his people. But
Secondly, The people of God have pleaded the Covenant, §2that is betwixt God and them, Remember thy Covenant: 1Now, how could they plead the Covenant betwixt God and them; if there were no such Covenant; see the Scriptures in the margin. But,
Secondly, The people of God have pleaded the Covenant,