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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.
Secondly, In Creation, there was but a word, and §2thereupon the work followed; in Redemption there was doing and dying: The work of Redemption could be brought about by none but God; God must come down from heaven, God must be made man, God must be made sin, God must be made a cu•se, 2 Cor. 5. 21. Gal. 3. 13.
Thirdly, In the Creation, God arrayed himself with §3Majesty, power, and other like properties, fit for a great work; in the work of Redemption, he put on weakness, he assumed a nature subject to infirmities, and the infirmities of that nature; he did as David did when he fought against Goliath, he put off all armour, and took his staff in ⟨p. 103⟩his hand, and drew near to the Philistine: 1 Sam. 17. 39, 40.
Thirdly, In the Creation, God arrayed himself with §3Majesty, power, and other like properties, fit for a great work; in the work of Redemption, he put on weakness, he assumed a nature subject to infirmities, and the infirmities of that nature; he did as David did when he fought against Goliah, he put off all armour, and took his staff in ⟨p. 103⟩his hand, and drew near to the Philistine: 1 Sam. 17. 39, 40.