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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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all those secret mysteries, that were laid up in the bosom of eternity, are fully known to this great Prophet of the Church; Joh. 5. 20. The father loveth the son, and showeth him all things that himself doth, by a divine and unspeakable communication. God the father shows to Jesus Christ all things that he doth; God's love is communicative, and will manifest it self in effects, according to the capacity of the party beloved; so much appeareth in that unspeakable love of the father to the son; The father loveth the son, and showeth him all things, &c. Or communicateth his nature, wisdom and power, for operation with him; which is expressed in terms taken from among men, because of our weakness; and ought to be spiritually, and not carnally conceived of. ⟨p. 138⟩And therefore these terms of the father's showing, and the son's seeing, are made use of to prevent all carnal and gross conceptions of this inexpressible communication from the Father, and participation by the Son. In the blessed Scripture, Jesus Christ is sometimes called (the) Prophet, and (that) Prophet; because he is one that came from the bosom of the father, and lives and lies i• the bosom of the father, and understands the whole mi•d, will, heart, counsels, designs, ways and workings of the father. Jesus Christ is anointed by God the father, •o be the great Prophet and teacher of his Elect; and accordingly Jesus Christ has taken that office upon himself […] the father has laid a charge upon Jesus Christ, to tea•h and instruct all those that he has given him, in his whole mind and will, so far as is necessary to their salvation, edification, consolation, &c. Moses was faithful as a servant, but 1Christ as a son. Christ cannot be unfaithful in his Prophetical office; those that God the father hath charged him to teach and instruct, he will teach and instruct, in the great things of their peace; and no wonder, for the knowledge that is communicated to Jesus Christ, the great Prophet of his Church, is not by Dreams, or Visions, or Revelations of Angels (as to the Prophets of old) but by a clear, full, intimate view, and beholding of the Godhead, the fountain of all sacred knowledge;