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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 that God rejects all ways of satisfaction §2by men: Could men make as many prayers as there be stars in heaven, and drops in the Sea; and could they1 weep as much blood, as there is water in the Ocean; and ⟨p. 90⟩should they give all their goods to the poor, and their bodies to be burnt, as some have done; yet, all this would not satisfy for the least sin, not for an idle word, not for a vain thought; Heb. 10. 5. Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not; that is, thou wilt not accept of them, for an expiation and satisfaction for sin, as the Jews imagined. The Apostle shows the impotency and insufficiency of legal sacrifices, by God's rejecting of them; the things here set down, not to be regarded by God (as sacrifices, offerings, burnt offerings, and sacrifices for sin, together with other legal ordinances, comprised under them) do evidently demonstrate, that God regards none of those things in a way of satisfaction, they are no current price, they are no such pay that will be accepted of in the Court of heaven. Remission of sin could never be obtained by sacrifices and offerings, nor by prayers, tears, humblings, meltings, watchings, fastings, penances, pilgrimages, &c. Remission of sins cost Christ dear, though it cost us nothing: Remission of sins drops down from God to us, through Christ's wounds, and swims to us in Christ's blood. It was well said by one of the Ancients; I have not whence 2I may glory in my own works, I have not whence I may boast my self; and therefore I will glory in Christ; I will not glory that I am righteous, but I will glory that I am redeemed; I will glory, not because I am without sin, but because my sins are forgiven; I will not glory because I have profited, or because any hath profited me, but because Christ is an Advocate with the father for me, but because the blood of Christ is shed for me. Certainly, the Popish Doctrine of man's own satisfaction, in part for his sins, is most derogatory, to the blood, and to the plenary and complete satisfaction of Jesus Christ. But,