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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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Dedication: To his honoured Friends, Sir John More, Knight and Alderman of the City of London, and…
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It is no great matter, if a man be great and rich in the world, to obtain a great report, but without holiness you can never obtain a good report. Holiness, uprightness, righteousness, will embalm your names, it will make them immortal. Psalm 112. 6 The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. Wicked men many times out live their names, but the names of the righteous out live them. Holy Abel hath been dead above this five thousand years, & yet his name is as fresh & fragrant as it1 was the first day he was made a Martyr▪ When a sincere Christian dyes, he leaves his name as a sweet and as a lasting scent behind him, his Fame shall live when he is dead: This is verified in your precious Father, who is now a sleep in Jesus, 1 Thess. 4. 14.
It is no great matter, if a man be great and rich in the world, to obtain a great report, but without holyness you can never obtain a good report. Holyness, uprightness, righteousness, will imbalm your names, it will make them immortal. Psalm 112. 6 The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. Wicked men many times out live their names, but the names of the righteous out live them. Holy Abel hath been dead above this five thousand years, & yet his name is as fresh & fragrant as it1 was the first day he was made a Martyr▪ When a sincere Christian dyes, he leaves his name as a sweet and as a lasting scent behind him, his Fame shall live when he is dead: This is verified in your precious Father, who is now a sleep in Jesus, 1 Thess. 4. 14.