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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.
Eighthly, By Creation, man was placed in an earthly §8Paradise; but by Redemption, he is advanced to an heavenly Paradise.
Eightly, By Creation, man was placed in an earthly §8Paradise; but by Redemption, he is advanced to an heavenly Paradise.
Thus you see how the work of Redemption transcends the work of Creation. Again, the works of Providence are great, very great, in the eye of God, of Angels, of men; but what are the work• of Providence, to the works of Redemption? for, in order to the accomplishment of that great work, Christ must put off his Royal Rob•s, take a journey from heaven to earth, assume our nature, do and die, &c. Again, the work of Redemption by Christ, will be sound a great work, if you will but compare it with those Redemptions that were but Types of this: Israel's Redemption from their Egyptian Bondage, and from their Babylonish Bondage, were very great Redemptions, that were brought about by a strong hand, a mighty hand, and an out-stretched arm, as the Scripture speaks: But alas, what were those Redemptions, to our being redeemed from the love of sin, the guilt of sin, the dominion of sin, the damnatory power of sin; and to our being redeemed from the power of Satan, the curse1 of the Law, Hell and wrath to come. Lastly, the great ⟨p. 104⟩things that are wrapped up in the womb, in the belly of Redemption, speak out our Redemption by Christ, to be a very great Redemption; in the womb of this Redemption, you shall find reconciliation, justification, adoption. eternal salvation, &c. and are not these great, very great things? surely yes. But,