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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.
The first is this, Gen. 3. 15. And I will put enmity between 1thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise its heel. Here begins the book of the Lord's Wars, God's battles:2 This is spoken of that holy enmity, that is between Christ and the Devil; and of Christ's destroying the Kingdom and power of Satan: For as much then, as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise, took part of the same; that through death, he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. Heb. 2 14. God, by way of threatening, told Satan, that the seed of the deceived woman, should overmatch him at last, and should break in pieces his power and crafty plots; he gives Satan leave to do his worst, and proclaims an open and an utter enmity between Christ and him. From this Scripture, some conclude that Christ covenanted from Eternity; to take upon him the seed of the woman, and the sinless infirmities of our true humane nature; and under those infirmities, to enter the lists with Satan, and to continue obedient, through all his afflictions, temptations and trials to the death, even to the death of the cross. And3 that God the father had covenanted with Christ, that in case Christ did continue obedient through all his sufferings, temptations and trials, that then his obedience to the death should be accounted as full satisfaction to divine justice, for all those wrongs and injuries that were done to God, by the sins of man; Christ must die, or else he could not have been the Mediator of the new Covenant through death, Heb. 9. 15, 16. But
The first is this, Gen. 3. 15. And I will put enmity between 1