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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.
I▪ shall now make a little improvement of what has been said as to the Covenant of Redemption, and so draw to a conclusion.
First, This Covenant of Redemption, as we have opened §1it, looks sadly and sourly upon those that make so great a noise about the Doctrine of Universal Redemption. The Covenant of Redemption extends it self, not to every1 man in the world, but only to those that are given by God the Father to Jesus Christ. 2. It looks sadly and sourly upon those that make so great a noise about Gods choosing or electing of men, upon the account of God's foreseeing their faith, good works, obedience, holiness when our election is merely of grace and savour, and flows only2 from the good will of h•• that dwelt in the bush, and faith, good works, holiness, sanctification, are the fruits and effects of Election, as the Scripture every where tells us; and as has been made evident in my opening the gracious terms of the Covenant of Redemption, but because I have, in another place, treated of th•se things more largely, a touch here may suffice. But
First, This Covenant of Redemption, as we have opened §1it, looks sadly and sowrly upon those that make so great a noise about the Doctrine of Universal Redemption. The Covenant of Redemption extends it self, not to every1 man in the world, but only to those that are given by God the Father to Jesus Christ. 2. It looks sadly and sowrly upon those that make so great a noise about Gods chusing or electing of men, upon the account of God's foreseeing their faith, good works, obedience, holiness when our election is merely of grace and savour, and flows only