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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.
Seventhly, God the father promiseth, highly to exalt §7Jesus Christ, and nobly to reward him, and everlastingly to glorify him: And nations that knew not thee, shall run 1unto thee, because of the Lord thy God, and for the holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee: These are the words of God the father to his son, promising of him to set such a Crown of glory upon his head, as should make the nations of the world run unto him. God the father made Christ glorious in his birth, by the Angel's Doxology, ⟨p. 149⟩Glory be to God on high; in his baptism by his speaking2 of him from heaven, as his beloved son; in his transfiguration on the mount, in his resurrection, and in his ascension into heaven: So Isa 53. 12. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he hath poured out his soul unto death; and he was numbered with the transgressors, and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. The meaning is this, I will impart, saith God the father, to my son, such honour, glory, renown and riches after his sufferings, as Conquerors use to have; and he shall have them as a glorious reward of all his conflicts with my wrath, with temptations, with persecutions, with reproach, with contempt, with death, yea, and with hell it self. The words are a plain allusion to Conquerors in War, who are commonly exalted and greatly rewarded by their Princes, for venturing of their lives, and obtaining of Conquests, as all Histories will tell you: And indeed, should not God the father reward Jesus Christ for all his hard services, and his matchless sufferings, he would express less kindness to him, than he has done to heathen Princes; for he gave Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar as his hire, for his service at Tyre; and to Cyrus, 3he gave hidden Treasure: But alas, what were their services to Christ's services, or their sufferings to Christ's sufferings? I have read of Cyrus, how that in a great expedition against his enemies, the better to encourage his soldiers to fight; in an Oration that he made at the head of his Army, he promised upon the victory, to make every foot-soldier an horse-man, and every horse-man a Commander; and that no officer that did valiantly,