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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
The Tenth Scripture is that, Zach. 9. 11. As for thee, 1also, by the blood of thy Covenant (or whose Covenant is by blood) I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water. Here God the father speaks to Christ, with relation to some Covenant between them both; and what Covenant can that be, but the Covenant of Redemption. All the temporal, spiritual and eternal deliverances which we enjoy, they swim to us through the blood of that Covenant, that is passed between the father and the son: by virtue of the same blood of the Covenant, wherewith we are reconciled, justified and saved, ⟨p. 97⟩were the Jews delivered from their Babylonish captivity: The Babylonish Captivity, thraldom and dispersion, was that waterless pit, that dirty dungeon, that uncomfortable and forlorn condition, out of which they were delivered, by virtue of the blood of the Covenant, that is, by virtue of the blood of Christ, figured by the blood2 that was sprinkled upon the people, and by virtue of the Covenant confirmed thereby. Look, as all the choice mercies, the high favours, the noble blessings that the Saints enjoy, are purchased by the blood of Christ; so they are made sure to the Saints by the same blood; by the blood of thy Covenant, I have sent forth thy prisoners: Whatever desperate distresses, and deadly dangers, the people of God may fall into, yet they are prisoners of hope, and may look for deliverance by the blood of the Covenant.
The Tenth Scripture is that, Zach. 9. 11. As for thee, 1also, by the blood of thy Covenant (or whose Covenant is by blood) I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water. Here God the father speaks to Christ, with relation to some Covenant between them both; and what Covenant can that be, but the Covenant of Redemption. All the temporal, spiritual and eternal deliverances which we enjoy, they swim to us through the blood of that Covenant, that is passed between the father and the son: by vertue of the same blood of the Covenant, wherewith we are reconciled, justified and saved,