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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.
The Lacedaemonians1 were wont to say, it is a shame for any man to fly in time of danger; but for a Lacedaemonian, it is a shame for him to deliberate: Oh, what a shame is it for Christians, when they look upon the Covenant of Redemption, so much as to deliberate whether they were best suffer for Christ or no. Petrus Blesensis has long since observed, that the Courtiers of his time suffered as great trouble, and as many vexations, for vanity, as good Christians did for the truth; the Courtiers suffered weariness and painfulness, hunger and thirst, with all the Catalogue of Paul's afflictions; and what can the best Saints suffer more? Now, shall men that are strangers to the Covenant of Redemption, suffer such hard and great things for their lusts, for very vanity? and will not you, who are acquainted with the Covenant of Redemption, and who are interested in the Covenant of Redemption, be ready and willing to suffer any thing for that Jesus, who, according to the Covenant of Redemption, has suffered such dreadful things for you, and merited such glorious things for you? But
The Lacedemonians1 were wont to say, it is a shame for any man to fly in time of danger; but for a Lacedemonian, it is a shame for him to deliberate: Oh, what a shame is it for Christians, when they look upon the Covenant of Redemption, so much as to deliberate whether they were best suffer for Christ or no. Petrus Blesensis has long since observed, that the Courtiers of his time suffered as great trouble, and as many vexations, for vanity, as good Christians did for the truth; the Courtiers suffered weariness and painfulness, hunger and thirst, with all the Catalogue of Paul's afflictions; and what can the best Saints suffer more? Now, shall men that are strangers to the Covenant of Redemption, suffer such hard and great things for their lusts, for very vanity? and will not you, who are acquainted with the Covenant of Redemption, and who are interested in the Covenant of Redemption, be ready and willing to suffer any thing for that Jesus, who, according to the Covenant of Redemption, has suffered such dreadful things for you, and merited such glorious things for you? But