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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.
Secondly, This Covenant of Grace, under which the §2Saints stand, is sometimes styled a Covenant of life; Mal. 2. 5. My Covenant was with him, of life, and peace; life is restored, and life is promised, and life is settled by the Covenant: There is no safe life, no comfortable life, no easy1 life, no happy life, no honourable life, no glorious life, for any sinner, that is not under the bond of this Covenant. All mankind had been eternally lost, and God had lost all the glory of his mercy for ever, had he not, of his own free grace and mercy, made a Covenant of life with poor sinners. A man, in the Covenant of Grace, hath three degrees of life: The first, in this life, when Christ lives in him: The second, when his body returns to the earth, and his soul to God that gave it: The third, at the end of the world, when body and soul reunited, shall enjoy heaven.
Secondly, This Covenant of Grace, under which the §2Saints stand, is sometimes stiled a Covenant of life; Mal. 2. 5. My Covenant was with him, of life, and peace; life is restored, and life is promised, and life is setled by the Covenant: There is no safe life, no comfortable life, no easie1 life, no happy life, no honourable life, no glorious life, for any sinner, that is not under the bond of this Covenant. All mankind had been eternally lost, and God had lost all the glory of his mercy for ever, had he not, of his own free grace and mercy, made a Covenant of life with poor sinners. A man, in the Covenant of Grace, hath three degrees of life: The first, in this life, when Christ lives in him: The second, when his body returns to the earth, and his soul to God that gave it: The third, at the end of the world, when body and soul reunited, shall enjoy heaven.
- 1Omnis vita •st pr• pd eationm Philosophers say that a fly is more excellent than the heavens, because the fly has life, which the heavens have not.