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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Seventhly and lastly, The whole Compact and Agreement §7between God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ about the Redemption of poor sinner's souls, was really and solemnly transacted in open Court; or, as I may say, in the High Court of Justice above, in the presence of the great public Notary of heaven, viz. the Holy Ghost; who being a third Person of the glorious Trinity of the same Divine Essence, and of equal power and glory makes up a third Legal Witness with the Father and the Son. They being (a•ter the manner of Kings) their own Witnesses1 also, 1 Joh. 5. 7. For there be three that •ear record in heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one: Three, 1. In the true and real distinction of their Persons; 2. In their inward Properties, as to beget, to be begotten, and to proceed; 3. In their several offices one to another, as to send and to be sent: And these three are one, one in Nature and Essence, one in Power and Will, one in the act of producing all such actions as, without themselves, any of them is said to act; and one in their Testimony, concerning the Covenant of Redemption, that was agreed on between the Father and the Son. Consent of all parties, the Allowance of the Judge, and public Record, is as much as can be desi•ed to make all public Contracts authentic in Courts of Justice; and what can we desire more, to settle, satisfy and assure our own souls, that all the Article, of the Covenant of Redemption shall, on all hands, be […]inly made good, than this, that these three heave•ly Witnesse•, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy G••st, do all agree to the Articles of the Covenant, and […] Witnesses to the same Covenant? Thus you see▪ that there was a Covenant of Redemption made with Christ▪ upon the terms whereof he is constituted to be a […]; to say to the prisoners, go forth, to bring deliverance to the ⟨p. 170⟩