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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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The Seventh Proposition is this, It was agreed between1 the father. & the son, that Jesus Christ should be incarnate, that he should take on him the nature of those whom he was to save, and for whom he was to satisfy, and to bring to glory; Christs incarnation was very necessary in respect of that work of Redemption, that he, by agreement with the father, had undertaken; he had engaged himself to his father, that the would redeem lost sinners, and as their surety, make full satisfaction. By the fall of Adam, God and man was fallen out, they were at variance, at enmity, at open2 hostility; so that by this means, all intercourse between heaven and earth was stopped, and all trading between God and us ceased. Now, to redress all this, and to make an atonement, a Mediator was necessary; now, this office belonged unto Jesus Christ, both by his father's3 ordination, and his own voluntary susception; and for discharge of it, a humane nature was very requisite; there was an absolute necessity that Christ should suffer, partly because he was pleased to substitute himself in the sinner's stead, and partly because his sufferings only could be satisfactory: But now, unless Christ be incarnate, how can he suffer? the whole lies thus; without satisfaction no Redemption, without suffering no satisfaction, without flesh no suffering; Ergo, Christ must be incarnate. The 4word must be made flesh: And so Heb. 2. 14, 16. For as much then, as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise, took part of the same; that through death, he might destroy him that had the power of death; that is, the devil: For verily he took not on him the nature of Angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham: 1 Tim. 3. 16. Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness; God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of Angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. This is only applicable to the person of Christ: He that by his office, is to be Emmanuel, God with us; he must, in regard of his person,