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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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Fifthly, Consider, That of old there hath been a very great willingness, readiness, forwardness and resoluteness in the people of God, cheerfully to suffer for Christ, his Truth, his Gospel, his Worship, his Ways, his Ordinances, his interest, his honour: Consult the Scriptures in the margin, and many others of the like import, which all knowing Christians can turn to at1 pleasure. To these I shall add a few examples amongst a multitude of those blessed souls, who willingly, readily, cheerfully, resolutely, hazarded all for Christ while they were on earth, and are now a receiving their reward with him in heaven: Oh, how my heart leapeth for joy (said Mr. Philp•t the Martyr) that I am so near the apprehension of eternal life; I with my fellows were carried to the Cole-house, where we do rouse together in the straw as cheerfully (we thank God) as others do in their beds of Down. Mr. Glover the Martyr wept for joy of his imprisonment: And Mr. Bradford put off his cap, and thanked the Lord, when his Keeper's Wife brought him word that he was to be burnt the next day: and Mr. Taylor fetched a pleasant delightful frisk when he was come near to the place where he was to suffer: Mr. Rogers. the first that was burnt in Queen Mary's days, did sing in the flames: Vincentius laughing at •his tormentors, said, that death and tortures were to Christians (socularia & ludiera) matters of sport and pastime; and he joyed and gloried when he went upon hot burning Coals, as if he had trod upon Roses. Fire, Sword, Death, Prison, Famine, are all pleasures, they are all delightful to me, saith Basil; and in his Oration for Barlaam that famous Martyr, saith, that he delighted in the close prison as in a pleasant green Meadow; and he took pleasure in the several inventions of tortures, as in several sweet flowers: William Tim. Martyr, in a letter to a friend of his a little before his death, writeth thus; Now I take my leave of you till we meet in heaven, and hic you after, I have tarried a great while for you; and seeing you are so long in making ready, I will tarry no longer for you, you shall find me merrily singing Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabbath▪ ⟨image 23⟩at my journey's end, &c.