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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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 this Covenant of Grace is an everl••ing Covenant, may be mad• further clear from God's denomination, who hath […] styled it an everlasting Covenant. In the Old Testament▪ he frequently calls it, in Heb. [Greek or Hebrew], Berith ••olam, A Covenant of eternity: In the New Testament, he calls it in Greek, [Greek or Hebrew], Diatheke Aioni•s, The eternal Covenant, or the everlasting Covenant. And those whom God has taken into Covenant with himself, they have frequently acknowledged it to be an everlasting Covenant, as is evident up and down the Scripture. The Covenant of works was not everlasting, it was soon overthrown by Adam's sin; but the Covenant of grace is1 everlasting: The joy that is wrapped up in the Covenant, is an everlasting joy; and the righteousness that is wrapped up in the Covenant, is an everlasting righteousness; and the life that is •r•pped up in the Covenant, is an everlasting2 life; John, 3. 16. and all the […] glory, and salvation that is wrapped up in the […] everlasting; the Covenant relation that is […] God and his people, is everlasting; and the […] ⟨p. 36⟩Covenant, is everlasting, viz. Jesus Christ yesterday, and 3to day, and the same for ever. Though the Covenant, in respect of our own personal entering into it, is made with us now in time, and hath a beginning; yet, for continuance, it is everlasting, and without end; it shall remain for ever and ever. But,
That this Covenant of Grace is an everl••ing Covenant, may be mad• further clear from God's denomination, who hath stiled it an everlasting Covenant. In the Old Testament he frequently calls it, in Heb. , Berith olam, A Covenant of ternity: In the New Testament, he calls it in Greek, , Diatheke Aionis, The eternal Covenant, or the everlasting Covenant. And those whom God has taken into Covenant with himself, they have frequently acknowledged it to be an everlasting Covenant, as is evident up and down the Scripture. The Covenant of works was not everlasting, it was soon overthrown by Adam's sin; but the Covenant of grace is