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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.
I have not called a Council, to enquire where to find a Ransom, that fallen man might be preserved from falling into the fatal pit of destruction; but I have found a ransom in my own heart, my own breasts, my own bosom, without advising or consulting with others, I have found out a way how to save sinners with a salvo to my honour, justice, holiness and truth. Had all the Angels in heaven, from the first day of their creation, to this very day, sat in serious Council, to invent, contrive or find out a way, a means, whereby lost man might be secured against the curse of the Law, hell, condemnation and wrath to come, and whereby he might have been made happy, and blessed for ever; and all this without the least wrong or prejudice to the justice and righteousness of God; they could never have found out any way or means to have effected those great things. Our Redemption by a Ransom, is God's own invention, and God's only invention. The blessed Ransom which the Lord has found out for poor sinners, is the blood of his own dearest son (a ransom which never entered into the thoughts or hearts of Angels and men, till God had revealed it) which is called the blood of the Covenant, because thereby the Covenant is confirmed, and all Covenant-mercies assured to us,1 ⟨p. 117⟩Again, God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son: Here is a sic, without a sicut; that sic so, signifies the firstness of the father's love, & the freeness of the father's love,2 and the vehemency of the father's love, and the admirableness of the father's love, and the matchlessness of the father's love. O! what manner of love is this, for God to give his son, not his servant; his begotten son, not his adopted son; his only son, and not one son of many; his only son by eternal generation, and communication of the same Essence; to be a Ransom and Mediator for sinners! God the father loving lost man, sent his son to suffer, and to do the office of a Mediator; that through his mediation, he might communicate the effects of his love, in a way agreeable to his justice; for God loved the world, and that antecedently, to his giving Christ, and as a cause of it. The design, the project of saving sinners, was first contrived and laid by God the father; therefore Christ says, The son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the father do: