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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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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.
Fifthly, Observe that Jesus Christ our surety does not §5only agree with his father, about the price that he was to lay down for our redemption, but also agrees with his father, about the persons that were to be redeemed, and their sanctification; Heb. 10. 10. By the which will (that is, by the execution of which will, by the obedience of Christ to his heavenly father) we are sanctified, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all: Jesus Christ agrees with the father, that all those shall be sanctified, for whom he has suffered and satisfied. The virtue, efficacy and benefit of that which ariseth from the aforesaid will of the father and of the son, is expressed under this word, sanctified: To pass by the notation, and divers acceptations of this word, sanctified, let it suffice to tell you; It is not here to be taken, as distinguished from justification or glorification, as it is else where taken; but1 so as comprising under it, all the benefits of Christ's sacrifice, ⟨p. 94⟩In this general and large extent, it is sometimes2 taken; only this word, sanctified, here gives us to understand, that perfection consisteth especially in holiness; for he expresseth the perfection of Christ's sacrifice under the word, sanctified, which implieth a making holy; this3 was that special part of perfection, wherein man was made at first; and whereunto the Apostle alludeth, where4 he exhorteth, To put on that new man, which after God, is created in righteousness and true holiness; for this end, Christ gave himself even unto death, for his Church, that he might sanctify it. The principal thing under this5 word, sanctified, in this place is, that Christ's sacrifice maketh perfect; in this respect, Christ's sacrifice is here opposed to the legal sacrifices, which could not make perfect: So that Christ's sacrifice was offered up, to do that which they could not do; for this end, was Christ's sacrifice surrogated in the room of the legal sacrifices; now this surrogation had been in vain, if Christ's sacrifice had not made us perfect, if the dignity of his person that was offered up, and his almighty power, and unsearchable wisdom, and other divine excellencies of his be duly weighed, we cannot but acknowledge, that as his sacrifice is perfect in it self, so it is sufficient to make us perfect also.