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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.
as if, by his estate of humiliation, he had suffered any diminution, or by his state of exaltation any real accession were made to his glory as God. But the meaning is this, That Christ having (according to the paction past betwixt the father and him) obscured the glory of his Godhead for a time, under the veil of the form of a servant, and our sinless infirmities, doth now expect (according to the tenor of the same paction) that after he hath done his work as Mediator, he be highly exalted and glorified in his whole person, that his humane nature be exalted to what glory finite nature is capable of; and that the glory of his Godhead might shine in the person of Christ, God-man, and in the man Christ Jesus. Thus you see the promises, the encouragements and rewards, that God the father sets before Jesus Christ. And let thus much suffice, concerning the Articles of the Covenant on God's part.
as if, by his estate of humiliation, he had suffered any diminution, or by his state of exaltation any real accession were made to his glory as God. But the meaning is this, That Christ having (according to the paction past betwixt the father and him) obscured the glory of his Godhead for a time, under the veil of the form of a servant, and our sinless infirmities, doth now expect (according to the tenour of the same paction) that after he hath done his work as Mediator, he be highly exalted and glorified in his whole person, that his humane nature be exalted to what glory finite nature is capable of; and that the glory of his Godhead might shine in the person of Christ, God-man, and in the man Christ Jesus. Thus you see the promises, the encouragements and rewards, that God the father sets before Jesus Christ. And let thus much suffice, concerning the Articles of the Covenant on God's part.
In the last place, let us seriously consider of the Articles of the Covenant on Christ's part; and let us weigh well the promises that Jesus Christ has made to the father, for the bringing about the great work of our Redemption; that so we may see what infinite cause we have to love the son as we love the father, and to honour the son as we honour the father, and to trust in the son as we trust in the father, and to glorify the son as we glorify the father, &c. Now, there are six observable things on Christ's part, on Christ's side, that we are to take special notice of, &c.