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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.
he did not run before he was sent, he did not act without a Commission and Warrant, he was lawfully constituted by him who had power, to undertake that great charge he hath over the Church; this we shall find asserted of all his three offices. As for his Priestly office, he was made a Priest by an immediate call and ordination from God: Heb. 5. 4, 5, 6. The scope of the Apostle, is to set out the excellency of Christ's Priesthood, by comparing it with the Levitical; His Priesthood had a concurrence of all things necessary to the Levitical; and it had many excellencies above that. Now, among other things required in the Priesthood of Aaron, this was one, there must ⟨p. 136⟩be a divine regular call; this was in the Priesthood of Christ; He was called of God, an high priest, after the order 1of Melchizedek: that Psal. 110. 4. is God's sure and irrevocable promise to Christ, touching that excellent and eternal Priesthood, whereby the recovery of his seed, was to be meritoriously obtained. This Priestly office of Christ is sure, because it is confirmed by God's oath (of which before) as well as his promise. The promise makes it sure, the oath doubly sure, irrevocable: And certainly, the Lord neither can nor will ever repent himself of this promise and oath. The Priesthood of Christ is the most noble part of all his mediation; in the Priesthood of Christ, and in that especially, lies the latitude and longitude, the profundity and sublimity of God's love towards us; and in respect of this especially, is the whole mystery of our Redemption by Christ called, [Greek or Hebrew], the magnificent works of God. Christ as man, and as Mediator between God and man, was, by his father, deputed unto his Priestly office: Concerning the dignity and excellency of Christ's Priestly office, above the Levitical Priesthood, I have spoke elsewhere. But,
he did not run before he was sent, he did not act without a Commission and Warrant, he was lawfully constituted by him who had power, to undertake that great charge he hath over the Church; this we shall find asserted of all his three offices. As for his Priestly office, he was made a Priest by an immediate call and ordination from God: