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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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Secondly, observe with me, that in the persons redeemed §2by Jesus Christ, there was neither weight nor1 worth, neither portion nor proportion, neither inward or outward excellencies or beauties, for which the punishment due to them, should be transferred upon dear Jesus; for if you look upon them in their sins, in their guilt, you shall find them despisers and rejecters of Christ, v•rs. 4. Surely, he hath born our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Christ took upon him, not our nature alone, but the infirmities also of it, and became liable to such sorrows, and afflictions, and pains, and griefs, as man's sinful nature is exposed, and subject unto: They2 are called ours, because they were procured to him by our sins, and sustained by him for the discharge of our sins; unto the guilt whereof, out of love to us, undertaken by him, they were deservedly due. Christ, for our sakes, hath taken all our spiritual maladies (that is, all our sins) upon him, to make satisfaction for them; and as our surety, to pay the debt that we had run into. Christ, in the quality of a pledge for his Elect, hath given full satisfaction ⟨p. 79⟩for all their sins; bearing all the punishments due for them, in torments and extreme griefs, both of body and soul. The reason why they so much disesteemed of Christ was, because they made no other account, but3 that all those afflictions that befell him, were by God, inflicted upon him, for his own evil deserts: They accounted him to be one out of grace and favour with God, yea to be one pursued by him, with all those evils for his sins; when the Jews saw what grievous things Christ suffered, they wickedly and impiously judged, that he was thus handled by God, in way of vengeance for his sins: By all which, you may see, that in the persons redeemed by Christ, there was nothing of worth or honour to be found, for which the punishment due to them, should be transferred upon our Lord Jesus Christ. But,