A29699:246
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.
Thus you see in these Eight particulars, how gloriously the Covenant of Grace, under which the saints stand, is set out in the blessed Scriptures.
Concerning the Covenant of Grace, or the new Covenant, that all sincere Christians are under; and by which, at last, they shall be judged: let me further say, (besides what I have already said) All mankind had been eternally lost, and God had lost all the glory of his mercy1 for ever, had he not, of his own free grace and mercy, made a new Covenant with sinful man. The fountain from whence this new Covenant flows, is the grace of God, Gen. 17. 22. I will make (Hebrew, I will) my covenant: This Covenant is called a Covenant of Grace, because it flows from the mere grace and mercy of God: There was nothing out of God, nor nothing in God, but his mere mercy and grace, that moved him to enter into Covenant with poor sinners, who were miserable, who were loathsome, and polluted in their blood, and who had broken the Covenant of their God, and were actually in arms against him: This must needs be of mere ⟨p. 53⟩favour and love for God to enter into Covenant with man, when he lay wallowing in his blood, and no eye pitied him, no, not his own. As there was nothing in fallen man, to draw God's favour or affection towards him, so there was every thing in fallen man, that might justly provoke God's wrath and indignation against him; and therefore it must be a very high act of favour and grace, for the great, the glorious, the holy, the wise, and the all-sufficient God, to enter into Covenant with such a forlorn creature as fallen man was: Nothing but free Grace was the foundation of the Covenant of Grace with poor sinners. Now, let us seriously mind how this Covenant of Grace, or this new Covenant, runs both in the Old, and in the New Testament; Jer. 31. 31