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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.
Christ was anointed and appointed by his father, to the office and work of a Mediator, and is therefore here called his King. There is an Emphasis in the word (I) Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion: 1I, before whom all the nations of the earth are b•• as • drop of a bucket, and as the small d•st of the […] I, before whom all nations are as nothing. yea, less than nothing; I, by whom Princes rule, and Nobles, even2 all the Judges of the earth; I that rule the Kingdoms of men, and give them to whomsoever I will, and3 who set over them the basest of men; I that change times and seasons, and that remove Kings, and set4 up Kings; I, that can kill and make alive, save and dan••,5 bring to heaven and throw down to hell; I am he that hath set up Christ as King, and therefore let me see the Nation, the Council, the Princes, the Nobles, the Judges, the Family, the person, that dare oppose or run counter-cross to what I have done. Again, the Lord, in a promissory way, approves and establisheth this King by a firm decree; Psal. 2. 7. I will declare the decree; not the secret decree, but the decree manifested in the word. I, the son of God, will, by my everlasting Gospel, proclaim my father's counsel, concerning the establishment of my Kingdom; I will declare that irrevocable decree of the father, for the setting up of his son's Sceptre, contra gentes, point blank, opposite to that decree of theirs, vers. 3. The Decree of God, concerning the Kingly office and authority of Christ, is immutable, and in effect, as irrevocable (so much may be collected out of the propriety of ⟨p. 141⟩