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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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Oh, how, in that great day, will all wicked men wish, that they had followed the counsel of the Heathen Orator, when he said, A recta conscientia ne latum quidem unguem discedendum: 1A man may not depart an hairs breadth, all his life long, from the dictates of a good Conscience. The Book of God's Omniscience takes in all things past, present and to come, as if he had kept a Diary of every man's thoughts, words and actions. But
- 1Ci•. •• Ossic.
Fifthly, There is the Book of Scripture; and of all §5Books, this Book is the most precious Book. The Book of the Creature, is but as the Inventory of the Goods; the Book of the Scripture, is the evidence, and conveyance, and assurance of all good to us. The Book of Scripture, is the Book of the Statutes and Ordinances of the King of Heaven, which must be opened and consulted, and by which all must be judged in the great day; Jam. 2. 12. So speak ye; and so do, as they that shall be judged 1by the law of liberty; i. e. by the Gospel of Jesus Christ, by the whole Word of God, registered in the blessed Scriptures. Now, the whole Word of God is called the Law of Liberty; because thereby we are born again, to a new spiritual life, and so freed from the Bondage and Slavery ⟨p. 189⟩of sin and Satan. Our Lord Jesus Christ, in his proceedings2 in the great day of Account, will judge us by the Scriptures, and pass everlasting sentence upon us, according to the tenor of the Scriptures. At the great and general Assizes, Christ will try all causes by the Word of God, and pass Judgment upon all sorts of persons according to the Word;