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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, premise this with me, That there was a Covenant of works, or reciprocal Covenant, betwixt God and Adam, together with all his posterity: Before Adam fell from his primitive holiness, beauty, glory and excellency; God made a Covenant with Adam, as a public person, which represented all Mankind. The Covenant of works was made with all men in Adam, who was made, and stood as a public person, head and root, in a common and comprehensive capacity: I say, it was made with him as such, and we all in him; he and all stood and fell together: 1. Witness the imputation of Adam's sin to all mankind, Rom. 5. 12. In whom (or for as much as) all have sinned; they sinned nor all in themselves, therefore in Adam, see vers. 14, In him all died. 2. Witness1 the curse of the Covenant, that all mankind are directly under; consult the Scriptures in the margin. Those, on whom the curse of the Covenant comes, those are under the bond and precept of the Covenant; But all mankind ⟨p. 11⟩are under the curse of the Covenant; and therefore, all mankind are under the bond and precept of the Covenant. Adam did understand the terms of the Covenant, and did consent to the terms of the Covenant; for God dealt with him in a rational way, and expected from him a reasonable service. The end of this Covenant, was the upholding of the Creation, and of all the creatures, in their pure natural estate, for the comfort of man continually, and for the special manifestation of God's free grace: And that he might put the greater obligation upon Adam, to obey his Creator, and to sweeten his authority to man; and that he might draw out Adam to an exercise of his faith, love and hope in his Creator; and that he might leave Adam the more inexcusable in case he should sin; and that so, a clear way might be made for God's justification, and man's conviction: Upon these grounds God dealt with Adam, not only in a way of sovereignty, but in a way of Covenant.
Fifthly, premise this with me, That there was a Covenant of works, or reciprocal Covenant, betwixt God and Adam, together with all his posterity: Before Adam fell from his primitive holiness, beauty, glory and excellency; God made a Covenant with Adam, as a publick person, which represented all Mankind. The Covenant of works was made with all men in Adam, who was made, and stood as a publick person, head and root, in a common and comprehensive capacity: I say, it was made with him as such, and we all in him; he and all stood and fell together: 1. Witness the imputation of Adam's sin to all mankind,