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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.
Bucer, in an Epistle to Calvin, tells him, that there were some that would willingly redeem to the Commonwealth the ancient ⟨image 23⟩liberty of worshipping Christ with their very lives. True Grace makes a Christian of a very heroic nature; Holy Zeal will make a Christian very ready to endure any thing, or to suffer any thing for Christ, his Worship, his Ways, his Truth.
Bucer, in an Epistle to Calvin, tells him, that there were some that would willingly redeem to the Commonwealth the ancient ⟨image 23⟩liberty of worshipping Christ with their very lives. True Grace makes a Christian of a very heroick nature; Holy Zeal will make a Christian very ready to endure any thing, or to suffer any thing for Christ, his Worship, his Ways, his Truth.
It is a high vanity for any man to think of getting to heaven without suffering; in all the Ages of the world, the Saints have found the way to happiness paved with troubles; and we must not think of finding it strewed with Rose-buds.
When Paul and Silas were in prison, their hearts were so full1 of joy, that they could not hold; but at midnight, when others were sleeping, they must fall a singing out the Praises of the Most High, they found more pleasure than pain, more joy than sorrow, more comfort than torment in their Bonds; the consolations of the spirit rose so high in their souls, that their prison was turned into a Palace, yea, into a Paradise. Paul was a man that took a great deal of pleasure in his sufferings for Christ,