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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 Fourth Proposition is this, viz. That the blessed §4and glorious titles that are given to Jesus Christ, in the ⟨p. 110⟩holy Scriptures, do clearly and strongly evidence, that there was a Covenant of Redemption passed between God the father and Jesus Christ. He is called a Mediator of the Covenant of reconciliation, interceding for, and procuring of it; and that not by a simple entreaty, but by giving himself over to the father; (calling for satisfaction to justice, that reconciliation might go on) for paying a compensatory price, sufficient to satisfy divine justice for the Elect▪ There is one God, and one Mediator between 1God and man (to wit, God incarnate) the man Christ Jesus who gave himself a ransom for all (to wit, his Elect children) to be testified in due time. Let me glance a little upon the words, One Mediator between God and men; in the Greek, it is one Mediator of God and men; which may refer, either to the two parties betwixt which he deals, pleading for God to men, and for men to God, or to the two natures, Mediator of God having the divine nature, and of men, having the humane nature upon him; one Mediator, not of Redemption only (as the Papists grant) but of intercession too: we need no other master of requests in heaven, but the man Christ Jesus; who being so near us, in the matter of his incarnation, will never be strange to us, in the business of intercession. A ransom, the Greek [Greek or Hebrew], is a counter price, such as we could never have paid, but must have remained, and even rotted in prison, but for our all-sufficient surety and Saviour: The ransom that Christ paid, was a real testimony of his Mediatorship betwixt God and man, whereby he reconciled both. The man Christ Jesus; Paul speaks not this to exclude his divinity, from this office of Mediatorship, for he is God manifested in the flesh, and God hath 2purchased his Church by his own blood: But to show, that in his humane nature, he paid the ransom for us, and that as man, he is like unto us; and therefore, all sorts and3 ranks of men have a free access by faith unto him, and to his sacrifice. He is also called a Redeemer, I know that