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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.
That all unbelievers, all Christless, graceless persons, are under a Covenant of works, which they are never able, safely to live under; should they live and die under a Covenant of works, they were surely lost and destroyed for ever; for the Covenant of works condemns and curses the sinner, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all ⟨p. 28⟩1things, which are written in the book of the law, to do them; neither hath the sinner any way to escape that curse of the Law, nor the wrath of God revealed against all unrighteousness and ungodliness, but in the Covenant of grace;2 this Covenant of works the Apostle calls, The law of 3works. This is the Covenant which God made with man, in the state of innocency before the fall: In this Covenant God promised to Adam for himself and his posterity, life and happiness, upon the condition of perfect, personal and perpetual obedience; and it is summed up by the Apostle, Do this, and live. God having created man upright,4 after his own image; and so having furnished him with all abilities sufficient for obedience; thereupon he made a Covenant with him for life, upon the condition of obedience: I say, he made such a Covenant with Adam, as a public person, as the head of the Covenant, and as he promised life to him and his posterity, in case of obedience; so he threatened death and a curse unto him and his posterity, in case of disobedience; In the day thou eatest 5thereof, thou shalt surely die; or dying, thou shalt die. God, in this Covenant of works, did deal with Adam and his posterity, in a way of supremacy and righteousness; and therefore there is mention made only of the threatenings; In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die the death: And it is further observable, that in this Covenant that God made with Adam and his posterity, he did promise unto them eternal life and happiness in heaven (and not eternal life, in this world only, as some would have it) for Hell was threatened in these words; In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die the death; and therefore, heaven and happiness, salvation and glory, was promised on the contrary; we must necessarily conclude, that the promise was as ample, large and full, as the threatening was; yet this must be remembered, that when God did at first enter into Covenant with us, and did promise us heaven and salvation;