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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.
and to cry out again, we groan, being burdened. Moses his choice is famous, and celebrated1 all the world over; for 'twas not made when he was a child, but when he came to forty years of age; then he preferred2 suffering, not only before sinning, but before all the Honours, Riches and Pleasures of Egypt; accounting the worst of Christ (viz. Reproaches) better than the best of the world. When Eleazar was promised to be saved from torments and death if he would but make show of yielding, he courageously answered, It 3becometh not our age in any wise to dissemble; whereby many young persons might think that Eleazar, being four score and ten years old, were now gone to a strange Religion. Thus also, one of the seven Brethren, in the name of the rest; We are ready to 4die, rather than transgress the laws of our fathers; meaning such Laws as God, of old, had given to their Fathers, to be observed by them, and by their Posterity, Age after Age. Polycarpus, 5when the Governor promised to let him go free if he would deny Christ, answered, I have served him four score and six years, and he never hurt me in any thing; how shall I curse him who hath saved me? And the Governor adding one while promises, another while threatenings Polycarpus thus cuts o•l all, why dost ⟨image 21⟩thou make delays? inflict what thou lists. So Galea[…], Gentleman of great Estate, who suffered Martyrdom at S[…]t-ang[…] a Italy; being much pressed by his friends to recant, and save his life, he replied, that death was much more tweet to him with the Testimony of Verity, than life with the least deny• of truth. Hooper desired rather to be discharged of his Bishopric, than yield to certain Ceremonies. A man were better displease all his Friends, all his Relations, yea, all the world than to displease his God, and displease his own Conscience So Cyprian, when