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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.
The Covenant Remedy against all sorts and degrees of sin, doth infinitely transcend and surpass all our infirmities and enormities, our weaknesses and wickednesses, our follies and unworthinesses, &c. What is our unrighteousness to Christ's righteousness, our debts to Christ's pardons, our unholiness to Christ's holiness, our1 emptiness to Christ's fullness, our weakness to Christ's strength, our poverty to Christ's riches, our wounds to that healing, that is under the wings of the Sun of Righteousness: Parallel to this, Heb. 8. 12. is that noble description2 that Moses gives of God in that book of Exodus, ⟨p. 58⟩The Lord, the Lord merciful and gracious; forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin: Some, by these three words, do understand such sins as are committed against our neighbour, against God, or against our selves: A merciful God, a gracious God will pardon all sorts of sinners, and all sorts and degrees of sin, by what names or titles soever they be styled or distinguished: Some by iniquity, do understand sins of infirmity; and by transgression, they understand sins of malice; and by sin they understand sins of ignorance: God is said to keep mercy, and to forgive all sorts of sins; as if his mercy were kept on purpose for pardoning all sorts of sinners, and all sorts of sins! The Hebrew word [Greek or Hebrew], Gnavon, that is here translated iniquity, signifies that which is unright, unequal, crooked or perverse; it notes the vitiosity or crookedness of nature, it notes crooked offences, such as flow from malice, hatred and are committed on purpose. Secondly, the Hebrew word [Greek or Hebrew], from [Greek or Hebrew], Pashang, that is here translated transgression, signifies to deal unfaithfully, it notes such sins as are treacherously committed against God, such sins as flow from pride and contempt of God. Thirdly, the Hebrew word [Greek or Hebrew], Chataah, generally signifieth sin, but is more especially here taken for sins of ignorance and infirmity: Oh! what singular mercy, what rich grace is here; that God will not only pardon our light, our small offences, but our great and mighty sins: &c.