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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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The fourth word of advice & counsel is this, Labour to be more inwardly sincere than outwardly glorious. [The 1Kings daughter is all glorious within.] O labour rather to be good than to be thought to be good, to live than to have a name to live; what ever you let go, be sure you hold fast your integrity: A man were better to let Friends go, Relations go, Estate go, Liberty go, •ife go, and all go, than let his integrity go. [God forbid that I should 2justify you, till I die I will not remove my integrity from me, my righteousness I will hold fast, and I will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.] Job is highly and fully resolved to keep his integrity close against all assaults of Enemies, or suspicions of Friends. Jobs integrity was the best Jewel he had in all the world, & this Jewel he was resolved to keep to his dying day. It was neither good men, nor bad men, nor devils that should baffle Job out of his integrity; and though they all pulled and pulled hard at his integrity, yet he would not l•t it go, he would hold fast this pearl of price what ever it cost him. The sincere Christian, like John Baptist, will hold his integrity3 though he lose his head for it. The very Heathens loved a candid and sincere spirit, as he that wished that ⟨image 14⟩there was a glass in his breast, that all the world might see what was in his heart. Integrity will be a sword to defend you, a staff to support you, a star to guide you, and a cordial to cheer you; and therefore above all gettings get sincerity, and above all keepings keep sincerity as your crown, your comfort, your life. But
The fourth word of advice & counsel is this, Labour to be more inwardly sincere than outwardly glorious. [The 1Kings daughter is all glorious within.] O labour rather to be good than to be thought to be good, to live than to have a name to live; what ever you let go, be sure you hold fast your integrity: A man were better to let Friends go, Relations go, Estate go, Liberty go, ife go, and all go, than let his integrity go. [God forbid that I should