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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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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.
Neither were they only a few choice persons, who willingly, readily, cheerfully and resolutely endured Martyrdom in Christ's Cause; but such multitudes, year after year, month after month,1 week after week, and day after day, as that one of the Ancients testifieth; That there was never a day in the year, except the first of January, whereunto the number of five hundred Martyrs at least might not be ascribed: So many, one after another, in one2 day suffered, as the Executioner blunted his sword; and with the pains he took, fainted. That which many of them endured, though to flesh and blood it seemed intolerable; yet with much patience, excellent cheerfulness, and divine courage, they endured it. They were not like bears, haled to the stake; but while Persecutors were sitting on their Judgment-seats, and condemning some Christians, others leaped in, and professed themselves Christians, and suffered the uttermost that could be inflicted with3 joyfulness and a kind of pleasantness, singing Psalms as long as their breath lasted.
Neither were they only a few choice persons, who willingly, readily, cheerfully and resolutely endured Martyrdom in Christ's Cause; but such multitudes, year after year, month after month,1 week after week, and day after day, as that one of the Ancients testifieth; That there was never a day in the year, except the first of January, whereunto the number of five hundred Martyrs at least might not be ascribed: So many, one after another, in one2 day suffered, as the Executioner blunted his sword; and with the pains he took, fainted. That which many of them endured, though to flesh and blood it seemed intolerable; yet with much patience, excellent chearfulness, and divine courage, they endured it. They were not like bears, halled to the stake; but while Persecutors were sitting on their Judgment-seats, and condemning some Christians, others leaped in, and professed themselves Christians, and suffered the uttermost that could be inflicted with