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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.
From whose Face the heaven and the earth fled away. The Splendour and Majesty of the Judge is such, as neither heaven or earth is able to behold or abide the same; how then shall the wicked be able to stand before him? Augustine understands it, for the future renovation of heaven and earth; and here he acknowledgeth an [Greek or Hebrew], for the heaven and the earth fled not before, but after the Judgment; to wit, saith he, The Judgment being finished then shall this heaven and earth cease to be, when the 1new heaven and earth shall begin; for this world shall pass away by a change of things, not by an utter destruction: The heaven and the earth shall flee away; that is, this shape of heaven and earth shall pass away; because they shall be changed from vanity, through fire, that so they may be transformed into a much better and more beautiful estate; according to that which the Apostle Peter writeth, The heaven shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements melt with heat; but we expect new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. How this passing away, •r perishing of heaven and earth, shall come to pass, there are divers opinions of learned men: Some think, that the substance or essence it self of the world, ⟨p. 180⟩shall wholly perish and be annihilated: Others are of opinion, that only the corruptible▪ qualities thereof shall perish and be changed, and the substance or essence remain: There shall be a renovation of all things, say most, and that only the fashion of the world, that is, the outward form and corruptible qualities shall be destroyed; and so the earth shall be found no more as it was, but shall be made most beautiful and glorious, being to be delivered into the glorious liberty (as far as 'tis capable) of the sons 2of God; being to be freed from corruption and bondage: (And with these I close.) The sum of the 21. verse is, That the Creature shall not be always subject to vanity, but shall have a manumission from bondage; of the which deliverance, three things are declared; First, who, the Creature, that is, The World: Secondly, From what, from Corruption, which is a bondage: Thirdly, Into what estate, into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. Some here note, the time of the deliverance of the Creature, namely, when the children of God shall be wholly set free;