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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.
The Fifth excellent Property of that Redemption that §5we have by Jesus Christ, is this, viz. It is an enriching Redemption, it is a Redemption that makes men rich in spiritual blessings in heavenly places: There are many choice1 and rare spiritual benefits, that wait and attend on Redemption, that go hand in hand with Redemption. As2 reconciliation, remission of our sins, justification of our persons, adoption, sanctification, full glorification; we have some fore-tastes of it in this life; here we have the first fruits of the spirit, but in the morning of the Resurrection,3 we shall reap the whole harvest of glory. It's called, by way of eminency, the salvation of our souls: 4Redemption and the noble benefits attending on it, are Salvation begun; but in heaven, this shall be salvation consummate. Redemption is a rich Mine, containing a Mass of Treasure, that cannot be valued; could we dig into it, could we pry into it, we might find variety of the choicest Jewels and Pearls; in comparison whereof, all the riches of the Indies, all the Gold of Ophir, and all the precious Jewels, and most orient Pearls that are in the world, are no better than dross. I have read of Tiberius the Emperor that passing by a place where he saw a cross lying in the ground upon a Marble stone, and causing the stone to be digged up, he found a great treasure under the Cross: But what was this treasure, but a great nothing, to that treasure that is wrapped up in our Redemption by Christ. What the Lord said once, to his anointed Cyrus, a temporal deliverer of his people; the same he hath spoken, and much more to his Anointed Jesus, the ⟨p. 109⟩greater Saviour and Redeemer of his Church; I will give thee, the treasures of darkness, the hidden riches of secret 5places. There are unsearchable riches in Jesus Christ; in him are riches of Grace, of all Grace; in him are riches of justification, and riches of sanctification, and riches of consolation, and riches of glorification: Would you share in the best of riches, would you share in the most durable riches, would you share in soul riches, would you share in heavenly riches? O! then secure your interest in the Redemption that is by Jesus Christ. But,