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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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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.
sanctification, salvation and perseverance do flow and run, as a precious balsam, upon the members of his body: My spirit that is in me (saith God the Father, to Christ the Redeemer) and my word which I have put into thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth; nor out of the mouth of thy seed, &c. In these words, God ⟨p. 86⟩the father engages, that his spirit and word should continue with his Church▪ to direct and instruct it, and the children of it, in all necessaries, throughout all ages, successively, even unto the world's end. But,
sanctification, salvation and perseverance do flow and run, as a precious balsom, upon the members of his body: My spirit that is in me (saith God the Father, to Christ the Redeemer) and my word which I have put into thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth; nor out of the mouth of thy seed, &c. In these words, God ⟨p. 86⟩the father engages, that his spirit and word should continue with his Church▪ to direct and instruct it, and the children of it, in all necessaries, throughout all ages, successively, even unto the world's end. But,
The Seventh Scripture is that, Zach. 6. 12, 13. And 1speak unto him, saying, thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, behold the man, whose name is the Branch, and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord. Even he shall build the temple of the Lord, and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them bot[…] •ow, that the business of man's Redemption was transacted betwixt the father and the son, is very clear from this text. And the counsel of peace shall be between them both, that is, the two persons spoken of, viz. the Lord Jehovah, who speaks, and the man, whose name is the Branch, Jesus Christ: This counsel was primarily about the reconciliation of the riches of God's grace, and the glory of his justice;