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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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Dedication: To his honoured Friends, Sir John More, Knight and Alderman of the City of London, and…
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and yet either merry company, or carnal pleasures and delights, or much worldly business, or else length of time have ⟨image 9⟩wrought off all their convictions, and they have grown more profane and wicked then ever they were before. As water heated, if taken off the fire, will soon return to1 its natural coldness, yea becomes colder after heating than before, this hath been the case of many under convictions: I shall forbear giving of particular instances. But
and yet either merry company, or carnal pleasures and delights, or much worldly business, or else length of time have ⟨image 9⟩wrought off all their convictions, and they have grown more prophane and wicked then ever they were before. As water heated, if taken off the fire, will soon return to1 its natural coldness, yea becomes colder after heating than before, this hath been the case of many under convictions: I shall forbear giving of particular instances. But
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Ninthly, Many take up in an outward change and reformation, they have left some old courses and sinful practices, which formerly they walked in &c. and therefore they conclude and hope, that their condition is good, and that all is well, and shall be for ever well with them; they were wont to swear, whore, be drunk, profane Sabbaths, reproach Saints, &c. but now they have left all these practices, and therefore the main work is done, and they are made for ever. I confess sin is that abominable1