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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.
which also, may further appear by the words the Apostle useth, setting glorious liberty, deliverance and freedom, against servile bondage and slavery. Chrysostom reads [Greek or Hebrew], for the glorious liberty of the sons of God; as if the end or final cause of their deliverance were pointed at, namely, that as God made the world for man, and for man's sin subdued it to vanity: So he would deliver it and restore▪ it for men, even to illustrate and enlarge the glory of God's children. I could, by variety of Arguments, prove, that this deliverance of the Creature, that our Apostle speaks of; shall not be by a reduction into nothing, but by an alteration into a better estate: But I must hasten to a close.
which also, may further appear by the words the Apostle useth, setting glorious liberty, deliverance and freedome, against servile bondage and slavery. Chrysostome reads 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, for the glorious liberty of the sons of God; as if the end or final cause of their deliverance were pointed at, namely, that as God made the world for man, and for man's sin subdued it to vanity: So he would deliver it and restore▪ it for men, even to illustrate and enlarge the glory of God's children. I could, by variety of Arguments, prove, that this deliverance of the Creature, that our Apostle speaks of; shall not be by a reduction into nothing, but by an alteration into a better estate: But I must hasten to a close.
Vers. 12. And I saw the dead small and great, stand before God. The Judge, before whom all do appear, is ⟨p. 182⟩our dear Lord Jesus, who hath the keys of hell and death in 1his hands; and who is designed and appointed by God the Father, to be the Judge of quick and dead; he hath Authority, and a Commission under his Father's hand, to sit and act as Judge. Here you see, that John calleth the Judge absolutely God, but Christ is the Judge; therefore Christ is God absolutely; and he will appear to be God in our nature, in that great day.