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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.
Now, from the Covenant of Grace, or the new Covenant,1 that God has made with sincere Christians, a believer may form up this Eighth Plea, to the Ten Scriptures cited in the margin, that refer to the great day of account, or to a man's particular account; viz. Oh blessed God, thou hast, in the Covenant of Grace (by which I must be tried) freely and fully engaged thy self; That thou wilt pardon mine iniquities, and remember my sins no more; so runs the New Covenant: Jer. 31. 34. I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more; So again, Heb. 8. 12. I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more: So Heb 10. 17. Their sins and iniquities will I remember no more: Isa. 43. 25. I even I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake; and will not remember thy sins: Ezek. 18. 22. All his transgressions that be hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: Jer. 50. 20. In th•se days, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found; for I will pardon them 2whom I reserve. Now, Oh holy God, I cannot but observe that in the New Covenant, thou hast made such necessary, choice, absolute, and blessed provision for thy poor people, that no sin can disannul the Covenant, or make a final separation between thee and thy Covenant-people. ⟨p. 56⟩Breaches made in the first Covenant, were irreparable, but breaches made in the New Covenant are not so, because this New Covenant is established in Christ; Christ lies at the bottom of the Covenant, the New Covenant is an everlasting Covenant; and all the breaches that we make upon that Covenant, are repaired and made up by the blood and intercession of dear Jesus: Every jar doth not break the marriage Covenant between husband and wife, no more doth every sin break the new Covenant that is between God and our souls: Every breach of peace with God, is not a breach of Covenant with God. That free, that rich, that infinite, that sovereign, and that glorious grace of God, that shines in that Covenant of Grace, tells us that our eternal estates shall never be judged by a Covenant of works; and that the want of an absolute perfection, shall never damn a believing soul;