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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, These words used by the Apostle, when he §4cometh into the world, he saith, are meant of Christ; which argue, that, that which followeth, was an express prophecy of Christ: These things being premised; out of the Texts last cited, we may observe these following particulars, that make to our purpose.
First, That the holy spirit opens and expounds the §1Covenant of Redemption, bringing in the father and the son, as conferring and agreeing together, about the terms of it; and the first thing agreed on between them, is the price; and the price that God the father stands upon, is blood; and that not the blood of Bulls and Goats, but the blood of his son; which was the best, the purest, and the1 noblest blood, that ever run in veins: Now Christ, to bring about the redemption of fallen man, is willing to come up to the demands of his father, and to lay down his blood: The Scripture calls the blood of Christ, [Greek or Hebrew], precious blood; Oh! the virtue in it, the value of it; through this Red Sea, we must pass to heaven; Sanguis Christi clavis coeli, Christ's blood is heaven's key: 2Precious in the sight of the Lord is the blood of the Saints, and truly, precious in the sight of the Saints, is the blood of Christ: Una guttula plus valet quam coelum & terra, 3One little drop is more worth than heaven and earth. Christ's blood is precious blood, in regard of the dignity of his person; it is the blood of God himself; it is the blood4 ⟨p. 89⟩of that person, who is very God as well as very man: Christ's blood was noble blood, and therefore precious; he came of the race of Kings, as touching his manhood; but being withal, the son of God. This renders his nobility