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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.
Thirdly, This Covenant of Grace, under which, the §3Saints, or faithful people of Christ stand, is sometimes […] a holy Covenant: Daniel, describing the wickedness of Antiochus Epiphanes, saith, His heart shall be against the 1holy Covenant; He shall have indignation against the holy Covenant▪ And have intelligence with them that forsake the holy Covenant: So the Psalmist, For he remembered his 2holy promise, and Abraham his servant; Promise her• being put for Covenant, by a Synecdoche, Luk. 1. 72. To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant. The parties interested in this Covenant, are holy; here you have a holy God, and a holy people, in Covenant together: Holiness is one of the principal things that is promised in the Covenant; the Covenant commands holiness, and encourages •• holiness, and works souls up to a higher degree of holiness, and senses and ⟨p. 37⟩arms gracious souls, against all external and internal unholiness:3 The Author of this Covenant is holy, the Mediator of this Covenant, is holy; the great blessings contained in this Covenant, are holy blessings; and the people taken into this Covenant, are sometimes styled, holy brethren, holy men, holy women; An holy Temple, an holy Priesthood, an holy Nation, an holy People; as you may see, by comparing the Scriptures in the margin together: When ever God brings a poor soul under the bond of the Covenant, he makes him holy, and he makes him love holiness, and prize holiness, and delight in holiness, and4 press and follow hard after holiness. A holy God will not take an unholy person by the hand, as Joh speaks; neither will he allow of such, to take his Covenant into their mouths, as the Psalmist speaks.