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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.
Thirdly, There is the Book of men's afflictions, this ⟨p. 186⟩§3some account an entire Book of it self; Psal. 56. 8. Thou tellest my wanderings; put thou my tears into thy bottle, are 1they not in thy book? God told all those weary steps that David took, in passing over those two great Forests, when he fled from Saul; or thou cipherest up my flittings, as the words may be read; whilst David was hunted up and down like a Partridge, and hushed out of every bush, and had no certain dwelling place; but driven from post to pillar, from one Country to another: God was all this while a noting down, and a numbering of his flittings, and a bottling up his tears, and a booking down his sighs; Put thou my tears into thy bottle, Heb. my tear; that is every tear of mine; let not one of them be lost, but kept safe with thee, as so much sweet water. God is said in Scripture, to have a Bag and a Bottle, a Bag for our sins, and a Bottle for our tears; and Oh, that we would all labour to fill his bottle with our tears, as we have filled his bag with our sins; and certainly, if the white tears of his servants be bottled up, the red tears of their blood shall not be cast away; if God keep the tears of the Saints in store, much more will he remember their blood to avenge it; and though Tyrants burn the bones of the Saints, yet they cannot blot out their tears and blood out of God's Register; Are they not in thy book? are they not in thy Register, or Book of Accounts (where they cannot be blotted out by any time or Tyrants?) i. e. yes, certainly they are; thou dost assuredly book them down, and wilt never forget one of them, according to the usual Interrogatory, that was used among the Hebrews, when they affirmed a thing past all doubt. Let the great Nimrods and oppressors of the Saints look to themselves, for God books down all the afflictions, sufferings and persecutions of his servants; and in the great day, he will bring in this Book, this Register, to witness against them. Ah sinners, sinners, look to your selves; in the great day of account, the Lord will reckon with you, for every rod that he hath spent upon you; he will reckon with you, not only for all your mercies, but also for all your crosses; ⟨p. 187⟩