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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.
and so death and dissolution proves no loss. Again, from vers. 40. we may observe, That such as are given to Christ, to be under his charge, and to participate of his benefits, are drawn to believe on him: And it is the father's will, and a part of the transaction betwixt him and his son, that faith be the way to partake of these benefits, and not the fulfilling of the impossible condition of the works of the Law; for they who are given to Christ, are expounded to be they who believe on him; and it is the father's will, that such partake of these benefits here mentioned, as of the rest of his purchase. Albeit mortification, holiness, &c. do prepare for the possession of these benefits, and do evidence a right thereunto, and the begun possession thereof; yet it is only faith in Christ, that giveth the right1 and title, that so it may be of Grace. Again, it is covenanted betwixt the father and the son, that believers shall be made partakers of everlasting life; for it is explained, that not to lose them, vers. 39. is that they may have everlasting life, for the further assurance of believers, of their ⟨p. 127⟩eternal happiness; it is also covenanted, that they shall have this life in present possession, in the earnest, and first fruits thereof; for they have everlasting life even here, and before their raising up: They have everlasting life; 1. in pr•misso, 2. in pretio, 3. in primltiis; he stands already on the battlements of heaven, he hath one foot in the porch of Paradise. Again, Christ having given an earnest-penny of salvation, will not suffer it to be lost, by any difficulty or impediment in the way, but will carry believers through all difficulties, till he destroy death and the grave, and raise up their very dust, that in body and soul, they may partake of that bliss; and that he may make it manifest, that death and rotting in the grave doth not make void his interest, nor cause his affection to cease. Therefore it is added, And I will raise him up at the last day. Thus you see, that God the father did lay his commands upon his son, to engage in this great work of redeeming and saving poor sinners souls, &c.