Herman Witsius, The Oeconomy of the Covenants between God and Man, Book III (on the covenant of grace), English tr. (London: Edward Dilly, 1763), vol. 1.

Here the way is pointed out to a Paradise far preferable to the earthly, and to a more certain and stable felicity, than that from which Adam fell. Here a new hope shines upon ruined mortals, which ought to be the more a…