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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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Fourthly, Observe with me, That peace and reconciliation §4with God, and the healing of all our sinful maladies,1 & our deliverance from wrath to come, are all such noble favours, as are purchased for us, by the blood of Christ; vers. 5. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed: Christ was chastised, to procure our peace, by removal of our sins, that set God and us asunder; the guilt thereof being discharged with the price of his blood, and we reconciled to God by the same price; Christ was punished, that we, by him, might obtain perfect peace with God, who was at enmity with us, by reason of our sins; by Christ's stripes we are freed, both from sin and punishment. Now, because some produce this Scripture, to justify that corrupt doctrine of universal Redemption, give me leave to argue thus from it; That chastisement for sin, that was laid upon the person of Jesus Christ, procured peace for them, for whom he was so chastised; but there was no peace procured for the reprobates,2 or those who should never believe, ergo. Further, by his stripes we are healed: Whence I reason thus: the stripes inflicted upon Christ, are intended, and do become healing medicines for them, for whom they are inflicted; but they never become healing medicines for reprobates, or unbelievers; Nahum 3. 9. There is no healing of their bruise; Ergo. But,
Fourthly, Observe with me, That peace and reconciliation §4with God, and the healing of all our sinful maladies,1 & our deliverance from wrath to come, are all such noble favours, as are purchased for us, by the blood of Christ; vers. 5. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed: Christ was chastised, to procure our peace, by removal of our sins, that set God and us asunder; the guilt thereof being discharged with the price of his blood, and we reconciled to God by the same price; Christ was punished, that we, by him, might obtain perfect peace with God, who was at enmity with us, by reason of our sins; by Christ's stripes we are freed, both from sin and punishment. Now, because some produce this Scripture, to justifie that corrupt doctrine of universal Redemption, give me leave to argue thus from it; That chastisement for sin, that was laid upon the person of Jesus Christ, procured peace for them, for whom he was so chastised; but there was no peace procured for the reprobates,