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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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Secondly, Jesus Christ promiseth to God the Father, §2that he will freely, readily and cheerfully accept, undertake and faithfully discharge his Mediatory office, to which he was designed by him, in order to the Redemption and Salvation of all his chosen ones: Consult the Scriptures1 in the Margin, they having been formerly opened; and in them you will find, that Christ did not take the office of Mediatorship upon himself; but first the Father calls him to it, and then the Son accepts it: Christ glorified not himself, to be made an High Priest; but he that said unto him, thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee: He called him, and then the Son answered him, Lo, I come. God the Father promiseth, that upon the payment of such a price by his Son, such and such souls should be ransomed and set free from the curse, from wrath, from hell, &c. Jesus Christ readily consents to the price, and pays it down upon the nail at once, and so makes good his Mediatory office. It pleased the glorious Son of God, in obedience to the Father, to humble himself, and obscure the glory of his Godhead, that he might be like his brethren, and a fit Mediator for sympathy and suffering, and that he might engage his life and glory for the redeeming of the Elect, and lay by his Robes of Majesty, and not be re-assumed till he gave a good account of that work, till he was able to say, I have finished the work that thou gavest me to do. Christ very freely and cheerfully undertakes to do and suffer whatever was the will of his Father, that he should do or suffer for the bringing about the Redemption of Mankind. Christ willingly undertakes to be his Father's Servant in this great work, and accordingly he looks upon his Father as his Lord, Thou art my Lord; that2 is, thou art he, to whom I have engaged my self, that I will satisfy all thy demands, I will fulfil thy Royal Law, I will bear the Curse, I will satisfy thy Justice, I will humble my self to the death of the Cross, I will tread the 3Wine▪ press of my Father's Wrath, I will fully discharge all the Bonds, Bills and Obligations, that lie in open Court, against any of those whom, by compact, thou hast given