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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.
Fourthly, This Covenant of Grace, under which the §4Saints stand, is sometimes styled a Covenant of peace; Numb. 25. 12. Behold, I give unto him, my covenant of peace: Peace is the comprehension of all blessings and prosperity.1 All sorts of peace, viz. peace with God, and peace with conscience, and peace with the creatures flows from the Covenant of Grace. There is 1. An external peace, and that is with men: 2. There is a supernatural peace, and that is with God: 3. There is an internal peace, and that is with conscience: 4. There is an eternal peace, and that is in heaven: Now, all these sorts of peace flow in upon us, through the Covenant of Grace. The Hebrew word for peace, comes from a root, which denotes perfection; the end of the upright man, is perfection of2 happiness: Hence the Rabbins say, that the holy blessed God finds not any vessel that will contain enough of blessin•• f•• Israel, but the vessel of peace: Peace is a very comprehensive word; it carries in the womb of it, all outward blessings; it was the common greeting of the Jews, […] be unto you: And thus David, by his proxy, salutes Nab•l▪ Peace be to thee▪ and thy house. The Ancients were wo•• to paint Peace in the form of a woman, with a horn of plenty in her hand; The Covenant of Grace is that hand, ⟨p. 38⟩by which God gives out all sorts of peace unto us; Isa. 54. 10. Neither shall the Covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee: The Covenant is here called the Covenant of peace, because the Lord therein offers us all those things, that may make us completely happy; for under this word peace, the Hebrew comprehend all happiness and felicity,