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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.
Eighthly a•d lastly, The Lord hath, by many choice, §8precious and pathetical promises engaged himself to make1 good that blessed Covenant that he has made with his people, yea, with his choice and chosen ones: take a few instances, ⟨p. 24⟩If ye hearken to these judgments (saith God to2 Israel) and keep and do them: The Lord thy God shall keep unto thee, the covenant and the mercy, which he sware unto 3thy fathers. This blessed Covenant is grounded upon God's free grace; and therefore, in recompensing their obedience, God hath a respect to his own mercy, and not to their merits: So Judg. 2. 1. I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. God is a God of mercy, and his Covenant with his people, is a Covenant of mercy; and therefore he will be sure to keep touch with them. So, Psal. 89. 34. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my mouth: As if he should have said, Though they break my Statutes, yet will I not break my Covenant; for this seems to have reference to the 31: vers. If they break my statutes, &c. Though they had profaned God's Statutes, yet God would not profane his Covenant, as the Hebrew runs, My covenant will I not break; that is, I will stand steadfastly, to the performance of it, and to every part and branch of it: I will never be inconstant, I will never be off and on with my people, I will never change my purpose, nor eat my words, nor unsay what I have said: So Jer. 33. 20. Thus saith the 4Lord, if you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there shall not be day and night in their season: vers. 21. Then may also, my covenant be broken with my servant David, &c. It is impossible for any created power, to break off the intercourse of night and day; so, it is impossible for me, to break the Covenant that I have made with David my servant; the day and night shall as soon fail, as my Covenant shall fail: So,