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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.
Fourthly, There is the Book of Conscience. Conscience, §4saith Philo, is the little Consistory of the soul: Conscience1 is Mille Testes, A thousand Witnesses, for or against a man: Conscience is God's Preacher, in the bosom: Conscience hath a good memory. (saith one.) The chief2 Butler forgot the promise that he had made to Joseph, but Conscience told him of it. Fama propter homines, conscientia propter Deum, saith Augustine; A good name will carry it amongst men; but it is a good conscience only, that can acquit us before God. In this great day, the Book of every man's Conscience shall be opened for their conviction,3 wherein they shall read their guilt in legible Characters; for that is a Book of Record, wherein men's actions are entered: and although now it be shut up close, and sinners will, by no means, be brought to look into it; •and though many things that are written in this Book, seem to be so greatly obliterated and blotted, that they can hardly be read: Yet, in that great day of Accounts, God will refresh and recover the lustre of those Ancient Writings; and sinners, in that day, shall find, that Conscience4 hath an Iron Memory. In the last day, God will bring the Book of Conscience out of the Rubbish, as they did the Book of the Law, in Josiah's time; and the very laying open of this Book before sinners, will even put them besides their w•ts, and fill them with unspeakable horror ⟨p. 188⟩and terror; and be a hell on this side hell unto them: In this Book they shall find an exact account of every vain thought they have had, and of every idle word they have spoke, and of every evil action they have done; and Oh, what amazement and astonishment will this fill them with! By the Books, in this, Rev. 20. 12. Origen does