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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.
that from him, as from a common person, spiritual root or principle, the Holy Ghost, with his gifts and graces, might be communicated1 to us: He received gifts for men, yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them; of his fullness 2we receive grace for grace. The first Adam was a living soul, but the second Adam is a quickening spirit. In the man Christ Jesus there is a Treasury, and fullness of grace and glory for us; he is the Lord-keeper of all our lives, of all our souls, of all our comforts, and of all3 our graces; and he is the Lord-Treasurer of all our spiritual, durable and eternal riches; we lost our first stock4 by the fall of Adam; God put a stock into our own hands, and we soon proved Bankrupts, and run out of stock and block: Now, since that fatal fall, God will trust us no more; but he hath, out of his great love, and noble bounty, put a new stock of grace and glory for us, into the5 hands of Jesus Christ, who is mighty, who is able to save to the uttermost, and in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Christ was more capable by infinite degrees, of the fullness of the holy Ghost, than mere men were or could be; and his employment being, also, infinitely beyond the employment of men; the measure of the Holy Ghost's fullness in him must needs be, accordingly, beyond all measure. Hence, by way of Emphasis, 6Christ is called the anointed one of God: The Kings, ⟨p. 132⟩Priests and Prophets among the Jews (who were anointed) were in their unction, but types of Christ, who is the great King, Priest and Prophet of his Church; and anointed above them all; yea, and above all the Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, Teachers and Believers, under the New Testament ministration. In Christ there is all kind of grace, and it is in him in the highest and utmost degree, that he might be able to manage all his offices, and finish that work which God gave him to do; and