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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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Secondly, The Covenant of Grace springs from the §2immutable counsel of God; Heb. 6. 17. God willing, more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise, the immutability of his counsel (confirmed it by an oath:) Times are mutable, and all sorts of men are mutable, and the love and1 favour of the creature is mutable; but the counsel of God, from which the Covenant of Grace flows, is immutable, and therefore it must needs be sure. The manifestation of the immutability of God's counsel, is here brought in, as one end of God's Oath; God swears, that it might ⟨p. 46⟩evidently appear, that what he had purposed, counselled, determined and promised to Abraham and his seed, should assuredly be accomplished, there should be, there could be no alteration thereof: His counsel was more firm, than2 the Laws of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not; certainly God's counsel is inviolable; My counsel shall stand, Isa. 46. 10. Psal. 33. 11. The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations; Prov. 19. 21. Nevertheless, the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand. The immutability of God's counsel, springs from the unchangeableness of his essence, the perfection of his wisdom, the infiniteness of his goodness, the absoluteness of his sovereignty, the omnipotency of his power; God in his essence, being unchangeable, his counsel also must needs be so; can darkness flow out of light, or fullness out of emptiness, or heaven out of hell? No; no more can changeable counsels flow from an immutable nature. Now, the Covenant of Grace, flows from the immutable counsel of God, which is most firm and inviolable, and therefore it must needs be a sure Covenant. But.
Secondly, The Covenant of Grace springs from the