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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.
Now, from the serious consideration of this Compact, Covenant and Agreement, that was solemnly made between God and Christ, touching the whole business of man's Salvation or Redemption, I may form up this tenth Plea, as to the ten Scriptures that are in the Margin, that1 refer to the great day of account, or to a man's particular day of account. Oh blessed God! I have read over the Articles of the Covenant of Redemption, that were agreed on between thy self and thy dearest Son; and I find by those Articles, that dear Jesus has died, and satisfied thy Justice, and pacified thy Wrath, and bore the Curse, and purchased my pardon, and procured thy everlasting favour: And I find by the same Articles, that whatever Jesus Christ acted or suffered, he did act or suffer as my Surety, and in my stead and room. Oh Lord! when I look upon my manifold weaknesses and imperfections, though under a Covenant of Grace, yet I am many times, not only grieved, but also stumbled and staggered; but when I look up to the Covenant of Redemption, I am cheered, raised and quieted; for I am abundantly satisfied, that both thy self and thy dear Son, are infinitely ready, able, willing and faithful to perform whatever in that Covenant is comprised; by these things men live,2 and in these is the life of my spirit: men may fail, and Friends may fail, and Relations may fail, and Trade may fail, and natural strength may fail, and my heart may fail, but the Covenant of Redemption can never fail, nor the3 Federates, who are mutually engaged in that Covenant, can never fail, and therefore I am safe and happy for ever; what though my sins have been great and heinous, yet ⟨p. 171⟩they are not greater than Christ's satisfaction, he did bear the Curse for great sins as well as small, for sins against the Gospel as well as for sins against the Law, for omissions as well as for commissions; assuredly, the Covenant of Redemption is a mighty thing, and there are no mighty sins that can stand before that Covenant: If we look upon Manasseh, in those black and ugly colours that the4 Holy Ghost paints him out in, we must needs conclude that he was a mighty sinner, a monstrous sinner; and yet his mighty sins, his monstrous sins could not stand before the Covenant of Redemption; the greatest sins are finite, but the merit of Christ's Redemption is infinite: