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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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The moth shall eat them up. Christ as Mediator, trusted ⟨p. 161⟩God the Father, to carry him through all difficulties and oppositions, till he had completed the great work of his Mediation: Christ strengthens and encourages himself in the execution of his Office, against all hardships and oppositions, from his confidence and assurance of God's aid and assistance; and by the same eye of Faith, he looks upon all his opposites, as worn out and weathered by him. Christ's Faith, Patience and Constancy gave him victory over all wrongs and injuries. So Isa. 49. 5. My God shall be my strength: Christ is very confident of his Father's assistance, to carry him thorough that work that he had assigned him to: Christ, in the want of comfort, never wanted faith to hang upon God, and to call him his God; My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 1Christ was never forsaken, in regard of the Hypostatical Union; the Union was not dissolved, but the Beams, the Influence was restrained: Nor in regard of his Faith; for though now he was sweltering under the wrath of God, as our Surety, and left in the hands of his enemies, and deserted by his Disciples and dearest friends, and under the loss of the comforting and solacing presence of his Father; yet, in the midst of all, such was the strength and power of his faith, that he could say, My God, my God. Christ, before the world began, having promised and engaged to the2 Father; that in the fullness of time he would come into the world, assume our nature, be made under the Law, tread the Wine-press of the Father's wrath, bear the Curse, and give satisfaction to his Justice. Now upon the credit of this promise, upon this undertaking of Christ, God the Father takes up the Patriarchs, and all the Old Testament-believers to Glory. God the Father resting upon the promise and engagement of his Son, admits many thousands into those […]once above, before3 Christ took Flesh upon him. Now as t•• Father, of old, hath rested and relied on the promise and engagement of Christ; so Jesus Christ doth, to this very day, st and stay himself upon the promise of his Father, that he shall, in