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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.
In this respect also, is the Covenant styled new, not only because it is divers from the Covenant of works, but also because it is divers from it self, in respect of the administration of it; after that Christ was manifested in the flesh, and died, and rose again; from the different administration, it is called old and new: This New Covenant hath not those seals of Circumcision and the Passover; nor those manifold sacrifices, ceremonies, types and shadows, &c. to the observation whereof, the Jews were strictly obliged; but now, all these things are taken away, upon the coming of Christ; and a service of God, much more spiritual, substituted in the room of them: Upon which accounts, the Covenant of Grace is called a New Covenant, 6. It is styled new, because it is1 fresh, and green, and flourishing, it is like unto Aaron's Rod, which continued new, fresh and flourishing: All the choice blessings, all the great blessings, all the internal and all the eternal blessings of the New Covenant, are as new, fresh and flourishing, as they were, when God brought your souls first under the bond of the New Covenant. But Seventhly, Such things are sometimes ••iled new, which are strange, rare, wonderful, marvellous, and unusual, the like not heard of before: So Jer. 31. 22. The Lord hath created a new thing in the •arth, a woman shall compass a man: As the n•t encloseth the […], not receiving ought from without, but conceiving and breeding of her self, by the power of the Almighty, from within. ⟨p. 41⟩That a virgin should conceive and bring forth a manchild, this was indeed a new thing, a strange thing, a wonderful thing, a thing that was never thought of, never heard of, never read of, from the creation of the world, to that very day: So Isa. 43. 19. Behold, I will do 2a new thing, I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. This was a new work (that is) a wonderful and unusual work, for God to make a plain or free way in the wilderness, where the ways are wont to be uneven, with hills and dales, and obstructed with thickets, and overgrown with brambles and briars, is a strange and marvellous work indeed: In this respect also, the Covenant of grace is styled new (that is) it is a wonderful Covenant. O sirs!