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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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Secondly, premise this with me, All men are under §2some Covenant or other; they are either under a Covenant of works, or they are under a Covenant of grace: all persons that live and die without an interest in Christ▪ they live and die under a Covenant of works; such as live and die with an interest in Christ, they live and die under a Covenant of grace. There is but a two-fold standing taken notice of in the blessed Scriptures; the one1 is under the Law, the other is under Grace. Now, he that is not under grace, is under the Law. It is true, in the Scripture you do not read, in totidem syllabis, of the Covenant of works, and the Covenant of grace: but that of the Apostle, comes near it, Rom. 3. 27. where is boasting then? it is excluded; by what Law? of works? nay, but by the Law of faith: Here you have the Law of works, opposed to the Law of faith; which holds out as much as the Covenant of works, and the Covenant of grace. The Apostle sets forth this two-fold condition of men, by a very pertinent resemblance, namely, by that of marriage, Rom. 7. 1, 2, 3. All Adam's seed are married to one of these two husbands; either to the Law, or to Christ. He that is not spiritually married to Christ, and so brought under his Covenant, is still under the Law, as a Covenant of works; even as a wife is under the Law of her husband, while he is yet alive. Certainly, there were never any, but two Covenants made with man, the one Legal, the other Evangelical; the one of works, the other of grace; the first in innocency, the other after the fall: ponder upon Rom. 4. 13. But,
- 1Rom. 6. 14. I am not of Camero's mind, that there were three Covenants; but of the Apostles mind, who expressly tells us, that there are two Testaments, and no more, in that Gal. 4. 24.