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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.
how can he be saved from wrath to come? &c. If we are under a Covenant of grace, and do not know it, how can we manage our duties and services with that life, love, seriousness, holiness, spiritualness,1 and uprightness, as becomes us? &c. If we are under a Covenant of works, and do not know it, how rare shall we be in religious duties? how weary shall we ⟨p. 27⟩be of religious duties? and how ready shall we be to cast off religious duties? By these few things I have been hinting at, you may easily discern how greatly it concerns all sorts of persons, to know what Covenant they are under; whether they are under the first or second Covenant; whether they are under a Covenant of works, or a Covenant of grace. Now, having premised these seven things, my way is clear to that I would be at; which is this, viz.
- 1Psal. 16. 4. Ames. 8. 5. Mal 1. 13. H•s. 6. 4. cap. 4. 10. Psal. 36. 3.
That there are but two famous Covenants, that we must abide by; in one of them, all men and women in the world, must of necessity be found; either in the Covenant of grace, or in the Covenant of works: The Covenant of works is a witness of God's holiness and perfection, the Covenant of grace is a witness of God's goodness and commiseration; the Covenant of works is a standing evidence of man's guiltiness, the Covenant of grace is the standing evidence of God's righteousness; the Covenant of works is the lasting monument of man's impotency and changeableness, the Covenant of grace is the everlasting monument of God's omnipotency and immutability: Now, no man can be under both these Covenants at once; if he be under a Covenant of works, he is not under a Covenant of grace; and if he be under a Covenant of grace, he cannot be under a Covenant of works: Such as are under a Covenant of works, they have the breach of that Covenant to count for, they being the Serpentine brood of a transgressing stock; but such as are under a Covenant of grace, shall never be tried by the Law of works, because Christ their surety hath fulfilled it for them;