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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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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.
First, The condition which he will have performed on §1Christ's part, as Mediator; or what Christ must do, as1 Mediator, He must ask of God; that is, not only verbally, by prayers and supplications, beg mercy, pardon, righteousness and salvation for poor lost sinners; but also really by fulfilling the righteousness of the Law, both in doing and suffering; and so by satisfaction and merit, purchasing acceptation for them at his hands: The Father engaged so and so to Christ, and Christ reciprocally engaged so and so to the Father; (a considerable part of the terms and matter of which Covenant is set down, Isa. 53. 10. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, &c.) The Father Covenants to do thus and thus for fallen man; but first (in order thereunto) the Son must covenant to take man's nature, therein to satisfy offended justice, to repair and vindicate his father's honour, &c. Well, he submits, assents to these demands, indents and covenants to make all good; and this was the substance of the Covenant of Redemption. But,
First, The condition which he will have performed on §1Christ's part, as Mediator; or what Christ must do, as1 Mediator, He must ask of God; that is, not only verbally, by prayers and supplications, beg mercy, pardon, righteousness and salvation for poor lost sinners; but also really by fulfilling the righteousness of the Law, both in doing and suffering; and so by satisfaction and merit, purchasing acceptation for them at his hands: The Father engaged so and so to Christ, and Christ reciprocally engaged so and so to the Father; (a considerable part of the terms and matter of which Covenant is set down, Isa. 53. 10. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, &c.) The Father Covenants to do thus and thus for fallen man; but first (in order thereunto) the Son must covenant to take man's nature, therein to satisfie offended justice, to repair and vindicate his father's honour, &c. Well, he submits, assents to these demands, indents and covenants to make all good; and this was the substance of the Covenant of Redemption. But,