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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.
First, From the free grace and favour of God: There §1was nothing in fallen man, to invite God to enter into Covenant with him; yea, there was every thing in fallen man, that might justly provoke God to abandon man, to abhor man, to revenge himself upon man. It was mere grace that made the Covenant, and it is mere grace that makes good the Covenant: Now that which springs from mere grace, must needs be inexceptionably sure: The Love of God is unchangeable; whom he loves, he 1loves to the end; whom God loves once, he loves for ever; he is not as man, soon on and soon off again, soon in, and as soon out, as Joab's dagger was! Oh no! his love is like himself, lasting, yea everlasting; I have loved thee with an everlasting love▪ Jer. 31. 3. Though we2 break off with him, yet he abides faithful. Now, what can be more sure, than that which springs from free love,3 from everlasting love? Hence the Covenant must be sure. The former Covenant was not sure, because it was of Works; but this Covenant is sure, because it is of Grace, and rests not on any sufficiency in us, but only on Grace.
- 1Jo•. 13. 3. Mal. 3. 6. James 1. 17.
- 22 Tim. 2. 13.
- 3Rom. 4. 16.