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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 as God the father keeps Christ close to the terms of the Covenant, so Jesus Christ keeps his father close to the terms of the Covenant also, Joh. 17. 4, 5. I have glorified thee on the earth (saith Christ to his father;) I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was: O my father, I have finished the work of Redemption; but where's the wages, where's the glory, where's the reward that thou hast promised me. There was nothing committed to ⟨p. 129⟩Christ by the father, to be done on earth for the purchasing of our Redemption, but he did finish it; so that the debt is paid, justice satisfied, and sin, Satan and death spoiled; so that nothing remains, but that Christ be glorified according to the promise of the father to him. The sum of Christ's petition is this, that since he had finished the work of Redemption, that therefore the father, according to his engagement, would advance him to the possession of that glory that he enjoyed from all eternity. Now, for the clearing of this, we must consider, that as Christ was from Eternity the glorious God, so we are not to conceive of any real change in this glory of his Godhead; as if, by his estate of humiliation, he had suffered any diminution; or by his state of exaltation, any real accession were made to his glory, as God: But the true meaning is this, That Christ having (according to the paction past betwixt the father and him) obscured the glory of his Godhead for a time, under the veil of the1 form of a servant, and our sinless infirmities, doth now expect (according to the tenor of the same paction) after he had done his work, to be exalted and glorified, and openly declared to be the son of God; the veil of his estate2 of humiliation, though not of our nature, being taken away. It is further to be considered, that however this eternal glory be proper to him as God, yet he prays to be glorified in his whole person, Glorify me; because, not only his humane nature was to be exalted to what glory finite nature was capable of, but the glory of his Godhead was to shine in the person of Christ, God-man, and in the man Christ, though without confusion of his natures and properties.