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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.
Then the parties Covenanting, passed betwixt the parts of the Sacrifices so slit in twain, and laid answerably to one another: The meaning of which ceremonies and solemnities, is conceived to be this, viz. as part answered to part, so there was an harmonious correspondency, and answerableness of their minds and hearts, that struck Covenant: And as part was severed from part, so the Covenanters implied (if not expressed) an imprecation or curse; wishing the like dissection and destruction to the parties covenanting, as most deserved, if they should break the Covenant, or deal falsely therein. To this custom God alludes, when he saith, I will cut with them a covenant of peace: And this he did, by making Christ a sacrifice, by shedding his blood, and dividing his soul and body; who is said to be given1 for a Covenant of the people; that is, to be the mediator of the Covenant between God and his people. So Ezek. 37. 26. Moreover, I will make a Covenant of peace with them, it shall be an everlasting Covenant with them, &c. The word for peace, is Shalom; by which, the Heb• […] derstand ⟨p. 39⟩not only outward quietness, but all kind of outward happiness: Others, by the Covenant of peace here, do understand the Gospel, wherein we see Christ, hath pacified all things, by the blood of his cross. And Lavater 2saith, it's called a Covenant of peace; Quia Christi merito, pax inter Deum & nos constituta est: Not only outward, but inward peace, between God and us, is merited by our Lord Jesus Christ. But,
Then the parties Covenanting, passed betwixt the parts of the Sacrifices so slit in twain, and laid answerably to one another: The meaning of which ceremonies and solemnities, is conceived to be this, viz. as part answered to part, so there was an harmonious correspondency, and answerableness of their minds and hearts, that struck Covenant: And as part was severed from part, so the Covenanters implyed (if not expressed) an imprecation or curse; wishing the like dissection and destruction to the parties covenanting, as most deserved, if they should break the Covenant, or deal falsely therein. To this custom God alludes, when he saith, I will cut with them a covenant of peace: And this he did, by making Christ a sacrifice, by shedding his blood, and dividing his soul and body; who is said to be given