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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.
Sixthly, and lastly, There is a Book of Life, Rev. 20. 12. And another book was opened, which is the book of life: the Book of Life, is the Book of all those that were elected and redeemed to life, through Christ Jesus. This Book of Life containeth a Register of such particular persons, in whose Salvation, God from all Eternity, determined to have his mercy glorified; and for whom Christ merited Faith; Repentance, and ⟨p. 191⟩perseverance, that they should repent, believe, and be finally saved. The book of life shall be opened; that is to say, the Decrees of God will be then published and made known, which now are sealed up in his breast, and locked up in his Archives. Then it will be seen who are appointed to life, for the glorifying of God's free, rich and Sovereign Grace; and whom he purposed to leave in their sins, and to perish for ever, for the exaltation of his Justice. 'Tis called A Book of Life; not that God hath need of a Book, but to note the certainty of Predestination; viz. that God knows all and every of the Elect, even as men know a thing which, for memory's sake, they set down in writing. This Book of Life shall be opened in the great day, because then it shall appear, who were Elect, who Reprobates; who truly believed in Christ, who not; who worshipped God in spirit and in truth, and who not; who walked with God as Noah, and who not, who set up God as the object of their fear; who not; who followed the Lamb whither ever he went, and who not; who were sincere, and who not; who preferred Christ above ten thousand worlds, and who preferred Barabbas before Jesus; and their Farms, and their Oxen, and their1 Swine, yea, their very Lusts, before a Saviour, a Redeemer;2 who are Sheep, and who are Goats; who are Sons, and who are Slaves; who have mourned for their own sins and the sins of the time, and who they are that have made a sport of sin, &c. Of this Book of Life, you read often in Scripture; Phil. 4. 3. And I entreat thee also, true yoke-fellow, help those women which laboured with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life. Vorstius thinks it a speech taken from the custom of soldiers or Cities, in which the chosen Soldiers or Citizens, are by name written in a certain Book or Roll.