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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.
Fifthly, The Lord Jesus Christ was very free, ready, §5willing and careful to make good all the Articles of the Covenant on his side, and to discharge all the works agreed1 on for the Redemption and Salvation of the Elect: Joh. 17. 4. I have finished the work that thou gavest me to do. There was nothing committed to Christ by the Father, to be done on earth, for the purchasing of our Redemption, but he did finish it; so that the Debt is paid,2 Justice satisfied, and sin, Satan and death spoiled of all their hurting and destroying power. By the Covenant of Redemption, Christ was under an obligation to die, to3 satisfy to Divine Justice, to pay our debts, to bring in an everlasting Righteousness, to purchase our Pardon, and4 to obtain eternal Redemption for us; all which, he completed and finished, before he ascended up to glory: And5 without a peradventure, had not Jesus Christ kept touch with his Father, had not he made good the Covenant, the Compact, the Agreement on his part, his Father would never have given him such a welcome to heaven as he did, nor he would never have admitted him to have sat down 6on the right hand of the Majesty on high, as he did. The right hand is a place of the greatest honour, dignity and safety, that any can be advanced to: But had not Jesus Christ first purged away our sins, he had never sat down on the right hand of his Father. Christ's advancement is properly7 of his Humane Nature; That Nature, wherein Christ was crucified, was exalted; for God being the Most High, needs not be exalted; yet the Humane Nature, in this exaltation, is not singly and simply considered in it self, but as united to the Deity; so that it is the Person consisting of two Natures, even God-man, which is thus dignified: For as the Humane Nature of