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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.
Secondly, Consider that the Covenant of Grace, is §2confirmed and made sure by the blood of Jesus Christ,1 which is called the blood of the everlasting Covenant; Christ, by his irrevocable death, hath made sure the Covenant to us. The Covenant of Grace, is to be considered under the notion of a Testament; and Christ, as the Testator of this will and testament. Now, look as a man's will and testament is irrevocably confirmed by the Testator's death. For where a Testament is, there must also, of necessity, be the death of the Testator; For a Testament is of force, after men are dead; otherwise, it is of no strength at all, whilst the Testator liveth: These two verses are added as a proof of the necessity of Christ's manner of confirming the new ⟨p. 48⟩Testament, as he did, namely by his death: The Argument is taken from the common use and equity of confirming Testaments, which is by the death of the Testator. A Testament is only and wholly at his pleasure that maketh it, so that he may alter it, or disannul it while he liveth, as he seeth good; but when he is dead, he not remaining to alter it, none else can do it. In the seventeenth verse, the Apostle declareth the inviolableness of a man's last will, being ratified as before, by the testator's death: This he showeth two ways: 1. Affirmatively in these words; A Testament is of force after men are dead: 2. Negatively, in these words, otherwise it is of no strength. Now from the affirmative and the negative it plainly appears, that a Testament is made inviolable by the Testator's death, so Jesus Christ hath unalterably confirmed this Will and Testament; viz. The New Covenant, by his blood and2 death; That by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions, that were under the first testament; they which are called, might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Christ died, to purchase an eternal inheritance; and on this ground, eternal life is called an eternal inheritance; for we come to it as heirs, through the good will, grace and favour of the purchaser thereof, manifested by the last Will and Testament: Hence you read, This is my blood 3