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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.
Again, sometimes Christ is called the surety of a better covenant. By so much1 was Jesus made a surety of a better Testament, so called from the manner of the confirmation of it, viz. by the death of Christ. Look, as Christ was our surety to God, for the discharge of our debt (the surety and debtor, in law, are reputed as one person) so he is God's surety to us, for the performance of his promises: The office of a surety being applied to Christ showeth, that he hath so far engaged himself for us, as that he neither can nor will start from his engagement: You shall as soon remove the earth, stop the Sun in his course, empty the Sea with a cockleshell, make a world, and unmake your selves, as any power on earth, or in hell, shall ever be able to hinder Christ, from the performance of the office of a surety. A perfect fulfilling of all righteousness, according to the tenor of the Law, is required of man: Now Christ our surety, by a voluntary subjection of himself to the Law,2 and by being made under the Law, he hath fulfilled all righteousness; and that he did this for us, is evident by that phrase of the Apostle, Rom. 5. 19. By the obedience of one, shall many be made righteous: The contents of the Law must be accomplished by our surety, or else we can3 never escape the curse of the Law; there must be a translation of the Law from us in our persons, unto the person of our surety, or we are undone, and that for ever. Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness, and hath4 made us just by his obedience, we are made the righteousness 5of God in him: Our surety became subject to the Law, that he might redeem us that were obnoxious to the Law. Again, full satisfaction for every transgression is required of man: Now Christ our surety, hath made satisfaction for all our sins, He was made a curse for us; and by that6