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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.
And I cannot, oh dear father, but further observe, that in the New Covenant, thou hast frequently and deeply engaged thy self, that thou wilt remember the sins of thy people no more: Oh my God, thou hast told me six several times in thy word, that thou wilt remember my sins no more: In the New Covenant thou hast engaged thy self, not only to forgive, but also to forget, and that thou wilt cross thy debt book, and never question or call me to an account for my sins; that thou wilt pass an eternal act of oblivion upon them, and utterly bury them in the grave of oblivion, as if they had never been. The sins that are forgiven by God are forgotten by God, the ⟨p. 59⟩sins that God remits he removes from his remembrance:1 Christ hath so fully satisfied the justice of God for the sins of all his seed, by the price of his own blood and death; that there needs no more expiatory sacrifices, to be offered for their sins for ever; Christ hath, by the sacrifice of himself, blotted out the remembrance of his peoples sins with God for ever. The New Covenant runs thus, And their sinful error, ([Greek or Hebrew], Lo escar guhod) I will 2not remember any more; but the Greek runs thus, And their sinful errors and their unrighteousnesses, I will not remember 3again, or any more; [Greek or Hebrew]: Here are two negatives, which do more vehemently deny according to the propriety of the Greek Language; that is, I will never remember them again, I will in no case remember them any more, I will so forgive as to forget: Not that in propriety of phrase, God either remembers or forgets, for all things are present to him; he knows all things, he beholds, he sees, he observes all things, by one eternal and simple act of his knowledge, which is no way capable of change, as now knowing, and anon forgetting; but its an allusion to the manner of men, who when they forgive injuries fully and heartily, do also forget them, blot them out of mind, or rather (as some think) its an allusion to the manner of the old Covenants administration in the Sacrifices, where there was a remembrance again4