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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.
when a man is troubled to think of the corruptions of his nature, that is so full of defilements, that it cannot be sanctified perfectly, let him withal think, that his nature is capable of Sanctification to the full. Christ received Humane nature which was not polluted, his nature is the same, therefore that nature is capable of sanctification to the uttermost. Oh sirs! if Christ, the second Person in the Trinity, did put on man, how careful should men be to put on Christ! Put you on the Lord Jesus, saith1 the Apostle. If Christ assumed our Humane nature, how should we wrestle with God, to be made partakers of the Divine Nature; 2 Pet. 1. 4. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these we may be made partakers of the Divine Nature. If Christ became thus one flesh with us, how zealous should we be to become one spirit with Christ; 1 Cor. 6. 17. Even as man and wife is one flesh, so he that is joined to the Lord, is one spirit: Was the word made flesh? did Christ take our nature? yea, did he take our nature at the worst, after the fall? what high cause have we to bless his name for ever, for this condescension of his! Should all the Princes of the world have come from their Thrones, and have gone a begging from door to door, it would not amount to so much as for Christ to become Man for our sakes: Christ took our nature, not in the the integrity of it, as in Adam before his fall; but in the infirmities of it, which came to it by the fall: What a mazing love was this! For Christ to have taken our nature as it was in Adam, while he stood clothed in his integrity, and stood right in the sight of God, had not been so much as when Adam was fallen, and proclaimed Traitor: As Bernard saith, Quo pro me vilior, eò mihi charior, Domine: Lord, thou shalt be so much the more dear to me, by how much the more thou hast been vile for me. Here is condescension indeed, that Christ should stoop so low to take Flesh, and Flesh with Infirmities. But
when a man is troubled to think of the corruptious of his nature, that is so full of •efilements, that it cannot be sanctified perfectly, let him withal think, that his nature is capable of Sanctification to the full. Christ received Humane nature which was not polluted, his nature is the same, therefore that nature is capable of sanctification to the uttermost. Oh sirs! if Christ, the second Person in the Trinity, did put on man, how careful should men be to put on Christ! Put you on the Lord Jesus, saith