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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.
First, That God the father promiseth to Jesus Christ,1 an excellent, royal and eternal Priesthood; Heb. 7. 21. For those priests were made without an oath, but this with an oath, by him that said unto him, the Lord sware and will not repent, thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek. Among the Jews, in the times of the Old Testament, they had an High Priest, that was in all things, to stand between God and them; and in case any sinned, to make an atonement for them: Now, look as the Jews had their High Priest, so the Lord Jesus-Christ, he was to be, and he is, the Apostle, and the High Priest of our Christian profession, as Aaron was of the Jews profession. The Priestly office of Jesus Christ is erected and set up, on2 purpose for the relief of poor distressed sinners. The ⟨p. 134⟩work of the High Priest, is to make reconciliation for the sins of the people: In the times of the Old Testament, the High Priest made an atonement for the people; in case any man had sinned, he brought a sacrifice, & his sins were laid upon the head of the sacrifice: Once every year, the High Priest did enter into the holy of holies; and with the blood of the sacrifice, did sprinkle the Mercy-Seat, and laid the sins of the people upon the head of the Scape-Goat, & so made an Atonement for the people; as is clear in that, Levit. 16. 14. He shall take of the blood of the Bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger, upon the Mercy-seat eastward, and before the Mercy-seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger, seven times: And at vers. 21. Aaron shall lye both his hands upon the head of the live Goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, and all their sins, putting them upon the head of the Goat; and shall send him away, by the hand of a fit man, into the wilderness; and so he shall make an Atonement. This was the work of the High Priest, in case any had sinned, to make an Atonement and satisfaction (by the way of Type) for the sins of the people. The main scope of the Apostle in that,