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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 first is this, That the Covenant of Redemption1 differs from the Covenant of Grace. 'Tis true, the Covenant of Redemption is a Covenant of Grace, but 'tis not properly that Covenant of Grace, which the Scripture holds out in opposition to the Covenant of works; which I shall thus evidence: 1. The Covenant of Redemption differs from the Covenant of Grace, in regard of the Federates; in the Covenant of Redemption, 'tis God the father and Jesus Christ, that mutually covenant; ⟨p. 98⟩but in the Covenant of Grace, the confederates are God and believers. 2. In the Covenant of Redemption, God the father requires of Jesus Christ, that he should suffer, sh•d his blood, die, and make himself an offering for our sins: In the Covenant of Grace, God requires of us, that we should believe and embrace the Lord Jesus. 3. In the Covenant of Redemption, God the father has made many great, precious and glorious promises to Jesus Christ As, sit on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool: 2And he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hands: And Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, 3and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession: 4And, I will be to him a father and he shall be to me a son: But in the Covenant of Grace, God promises to us Grace and glory, holiness and happiness, both the upper and the lower springs. 4. The Covenant of Redemption betwixt God and Christ, secures the Covenant of Grace betwixt God and believers; for what God promises to us, he did5 before the foundation of the world, promise to Jesus Christ; and therefore, if God the father should not make good his promises to his Saints, he would not make good his promises to his dearest son, which for any to imagine, would be high Blasphemy. God will be sure to keep touch with Jesus Christ; and therefore, we may rest fully assured, that he will not fail to keep touch with us. 5. The Covenant of Redemption is the very basis or bottom of the Covenant of Grace: God made a Covenant with Christ the spiritual David, that he might make a Covenant