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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.
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; Joh. 12. 48. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him; the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. The persons that are to be judged in the great day, are not believers in Christ, they are not receivers of Christ; but such as reject his person, and receive not his Doctrine. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him; &c. However the rejecters of Christ may escape Judgment for a time; yet, they shall never be able to escape the Judgment of the last day; they shall assuredly, they shall unavoidably be judged in the last day: Though the rejecters of Christ had none to witness against them, yet the Word of the Lord shall be more than a thousand witnesses against them in the great day: The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. The Word of the Lord is so sure and infallible a word, that Christ's Sentence in the great day (when heaven