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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.
Stand before God; that is, brought to Judgment; the1 guilty standing ready to be condemned, and the Saints standing ready, in Christ's presence, to be absolved and pronounced blessed.
And the books were opened. Christ the Judge being set on his Throne, and having all the world before him, the books are opened: 1. In the general, the books are said to be open: 2. Here is a special book for the Elect, The book of life was opened: 3. Here you have sentence passed and pronounced, according to what was written in these books, and according to their works: And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. Here the Judicial Process is noted by imitation of Humane Courts, in which the whole Process is wont to be drawn up, and laid before the Judge; from whence the Judge determineth for or against the person, according to the Acts and Proofs that lie open before him. The Equity, Justice and Righteousness of Christ the Judge, that sits on his white Throne, is set forth by a Metaphor taken from Humane Courts; where the Judge pronounceth sentence according to the written Law, and the Acts and Proofs agreeing thereunto: All things are 1naked and bare before him, whose eyes are as a flame of fire. But to show that the Judgment shall be as accurate and particular in the trial, and just and righteous in the close; as if all were registered and put on Record, nothing shall escape or be mistaken in its circumstances, but all things shall be so cleared and issued beyond all doubts and disputes, as if an exact Register of them had been kept and ⟨p. 184⟩published; in all which, there is a plain allusion unto the words of Daniel, speaking thus of this Judgment, The