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A29671	The sacred and most mysterious history of mans redemption wherein is set forth the gracious administration of Gods covenant with man-kind, at all times, from the beginning of the world unto the end : historically digested into three books : the first setteth down the history from Adam to the blessed incarnation of Christ, the second continueth it to the end of the fourth year after his baptisme ..., the third, from thence till his glorious coming to judgement / by Matthew Brookes ...	Brookes, Matthew, fl. 1626-1657.	1657 (1657)	Wing B4918; ESTC R11708	321,484	292

in the mount if yet either he or they had the interpretation of them revealed to the perfection of all that which the holy Ghost intended Here is Jacob's ladder it reacheth from earth to heaven God standeth upon the top of it by these rounds and spokes the forementioned mysteries God sent down his son to be known and believed in such a manner as was most convenient to the old testament and by these rounds and spokes they ascended unto God that stood at the top of the ladder and had a saving knowledge of Christ sufficient for them to salvation and everlasting life till the whole earth should be filled with a more clear and perfect knowledge of the Lord by his comming in the flesh Divina eloquia tanto quisque altiùs intelligit quanto altiùs in eis intendit saith Saint Gregory They therefore that are better studied in the Scriptures will finde out farther mysteries But if any one shall differ from me in judgment I envy not unto him a greater soundnesse and perspicuity In eo quippe numero sumus ut non dedignemur etiam nobis dictum ab Apostolo accipere Et si quid aliter sapitis id quoque Deus vobis revelavit forasmuch as we rank our selves in the number of those who disdain not to take unto us that which was spoken by the Apostles And if in any thing ye be otherwise minded God also hath revealed that unto you to apply the words of Saint Augustine to my selfe Ad Vincent Donatist Epist 48. Here then we will put an end to the first book of this our sacred and mysterious History The Recapitulation having shewed how and in what manner that covenant which God made with Adam and with all his posterity during the first period of time for the space of about three thousand and nine hundred threescore and ten years was administred till the promised seed did come the son of God made of a woman made under the law To redeem them that were under the law that we might receive the adoption of sons Gal. 4.4 5. By covenanting grace By conferring faith By administring the covenant barely inform of a promise from Adam to Abraham By renewing the covenant with Abraham By adding circumcision a seal of the covenant By instituting the paschall lamb another seal of the same covenant By disposing it into the form of a Testament By the legall and by the evangelicall parts of it Which evangelicall part of it was invested with the Tabernacle The Ark the golden Table The golden Candlestick The Altar of incense The Sacred incense The brazen Altar The brazen Laver The Leviticall priesthood The garments of the high Priest The consecration of the high Priest The Leviticall offerings The daies and months and times and years The holy City The holy Temple The holy persons All which things were typicall and mysterious relating to Christ to the new testament confirmed by his blood to the Evangelicall Church THE SECOND BOOK OF THE SACRED AND MOST MYSTERIOUS HISTORY OF MANS REDEMPTION NOw was the second period of time The second period of time come wherein that promised Seed should abolish the old Testament first by his coming in the flesh 2ly By his administration of the Covenant in the flesh and 3ly by his death He would abolish the old Testament and he hath abolished it by not urging or exacting perfect obedience to the Law in a double purity a purity of nature and a purity of workes He would abolish the old Testament and he hath abolished it by unvailing the Evangelicall part of it in that he hath put away the shadows by the body it self the figures by the truth it self the temporall priesthood of Aaron by an eternall priesthood of Melchisedec and all those sacrifices which were offered year by year continually by that sole singular sacrifice of himself offered once for all He would abolish and he hath abolished the old Testament by taking off the two old seales Circumcision and the Paschal lambe and by annexing in place thereof two new seales proper to the new Testament Baptism and the sacrament of his Supper He would abolish and he hath abolished the old Testament by transferring the keyes of the kingdom of heaven from the legall to the Evangelicall priesthood After which manner God will have his Covenant to be administred with men unto the end of the world Therefore it came to pass not without the speciall providence of Almighty God The Emperour Augustus his Decree that the Emperour Augustus having compleatly raigned one and forty years and the two and fortieth being then current there being peace all the world over to the end that he might know his own strength in his Empire the number of those who had the priviledge to be Citizens of Rome what people were then subject to the Roman Empire in every place how disposed to peace or war of what power and wealth what contracts consanguinities affinities they had among ●hemselves to the end that he might know how to impose tributes how to make wars in whom he might confide whom he had to distrust whom to fear set forth an edict or decree that all the world that is to say his whole Emperiall Dominion in all the parts and provinces subject to the same all the world over should be taxed described inventaried or inrolled by appearing personally before such persons as he had then deputed for that service and by giving in their names surnames parentage alliances estates arts trades and conditions of life what children what families c. to the end that all these things might remain upon Record to be made use of as occasion should serve For all this is meant by the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 although our late Translation render it should be taxed and taxing but in the Margin have noted inrolled Luc. 2. S. Luc. 2.1 2 For this cause Publius Sulpitius Quirinius called by the Evangelist Cyrenius was sent with commission into Syria Judea being comprehended as a part thereof And because that Palestina was divided unto the tribes by lot and the severall tribes into severall families who had also in their severall families the Cities of the heads of their families therefore David being the head of his family and Bethlehem the city of David holy Ioseph with the blessed Virgin St Mary his espoused wife being great with childe both of them being of the tribe of Iudah and of the house and linage of David in obedience to the Emperiall decree went up from Nazareth the place of their habitation Nazareth S. Luc. 4.29 which was a little city of Galilee the lower built upon an hill in the tribe of Zebulon unto Beth-lehem Ephratah another city Mic. 5.2 Bethlehem Ephratah distant from Ierusalem about six miles toward the South and was scituate upon an hill threescore and twelve miles from Nazareth Southward there to be taxed or enrolled and to give in

AND MOST MYSTERIOUS HISTORY OF Mans Redemption WHEREIN Is set forth the gracious administration of Gods Covenant with Man-kind at all times from the beginning of the World unto the End Historically digested into three Books The first setteth down the History from Adam to the blessed Incarnation of Christ The second continueth it to the end of the fourth year after his Baptisme which was the three and thirtieth year of his age The third from thence till his glorious comming to Judgement BY MATTHEW BROOKES D. of Divinity Gen. 3.15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heele St. Joh. 3.16 For God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life St. Joh. 19.30 It is finished LONDON Printed by William Wilson for the Author Anno Dom. 1657. TO HIS MOST HONOURED FRIEND FRANCIS BVRWELL Esq SIR IT is not unusuall to those who write bookes to make choice of some noble friends to whom to dedicate them My ambition is to present you with the Dedication of this The great respects which I had from your dear Father to the last gasp of his breath continued and augmented by you have put me forwards to retribute to his memory to your owne merits in such a way as I am able Sr. There is great profit in reading of books if a good choice be made of them Historicall books will accomplish a gentleman for an history is not improperly defined to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a commemoration containing an exposition of some matter or thing which hath been acted or done upon the stage of the world So that by history we do as it were live and have lived at all times and in all places conversing with all sorts of people knowing the manners and severall constitutions of all nations and are present in all the occurrences of times by-past as if they were now in action But a Christian hath his unum necessarium and that is to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death No historicall knowledge therefore more pertinent unto him then that whereby according to the Scriptures of the Divine canon he shall know the gratious administration of Gods covenant with mankinde shall see Christ in the Originall promise and in all the promises sacraments sacrifices and sacred ceremonies visibly set forth and represented in the legall worship and by persons ordained to minister in the same together with sacred places and functions till his coming in the flesh to fulfill all that which was promised and mystically shewed concerning himselfe And then shall behold him in the flesh as he was by divine dispensation shall hear his heavenly doctrine see his wonderfull works and miracles and how he abolished the old testament instituted the great and mysterious sacraments of the new And how having done all those things which were first requisite for him to do he suffered was buried descended into hell rose again the third day from the dead and having been conversant with his disciples for the space of forty daies after his resurrection he transferred the keyes of the kingdome of heaven from the Legall to the Evangelicall priesthood giving ample commission to his Apostles to go into all the world and to teach and baptize all nations and then ascended into heaven where he sitteth on the right hand of God and maketh intercession for his Church A sound faith requireth a right understanding for the things which we do not rightly understand we cannot rightly believe Therefore though to believe and to apply the great and most mysterious work of mans redemption to our selves effectually that we may be saved is the gift of God by the holy Ghost through faith yet to inform the understanding the history opened and cleared according to the Scriptures is most necessary This is that which I have endeavoured to do in such a method as I conceive most proper for the subject so transcendently mysterious and divine carefully observing the periods of the times and with what brevity and perspicuity I could to remember the learned of those things which they know and to teach the unlearned some things which they do not know avoyding in all things curiosity and ostentation of language Vpon the principall matters concurring with the history the explication whereof is more requisite I have insisted more largely And as for those things which cannot positively be defined or stated because not clearly evidenced in the Scriptures Ut potui explicavi nec tamen ut Pythius Apollo certa ut sint fixa quae dixi sed ut homunculus probabilia conjecturâ sequens Therefore must I apologize with the author of the Macchabaean history for If I have done well and as is fitting the story it is that which I desired but if slenderly and meanly it is that which I could attain unto 2 Mac. 15.38 Sir you have the devotions of Your much obliged and most observant friend MATTH BROOKES Reader IT cannot be but thou shalt meet with some faults in this Impression which I beseech thee to correct upon thine own observation principally these following fol. 17. Sect. 28. for invisible Church read visible Church f. 54. sect 78. for vessells r. ves●'s fol. 54. 79. for Scuttetus r. Scultetus f. 73. 10. for had paid it r. hath paid it f. 135. 75. for verietie r. verity f. 223. 24. for ingregrity integrity and in the same sect for St Peter Lombard saith Peter Lombard f. 225. 26. for emptitius emptitias every where for Sanhedrim Sanhedrin f. 240. 43. for degisereris dejicereris for stanti standi f. 244. 48. for Num Nunc. f. 249. 53. Quadripartitae Quadripartita f. 261. 67. for pdrmits permits f. 264. 69. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in the same section for wherewith he was buried was chre r. where with he was buried were left in the Sepulchre f. 168. and 169. for Not to them as to St Thomas Not to say unto them as to St Thomas f. 271. 74. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vale. THE FIRST BOOK OF THE SACRED AND MOST MYSTERIOVS HISTORY OF MANS REDEMPTION GOD made Man in his Image after his likenesse And Man being made in the Image and Similitude of God had free-will Man made in the Image of God which made him capeable of a speciall positive law according to which hee should live in all due obedience to his Creator preserving himselfe and all his posterity in that good condition in which he was created as well thereby to avoid both sin and death as also to render himselfe by his obedience a fit subject of a more cleare and perfect vision and fruition of God Aug. Enchir. cap. 25. Gen. 2.16 The law which God

and distinguished In one house it must be eaten neither must any part of it be carried out of the house to teach them to know that the Church which is that house in which the Lamb is is but one they must therefore keep themselves in the unity of that Church and not go forth of it nor think to finde the true Lamb of God in the fraternities of Hereticks Schismaticks and Sectaries who depart from the communion of the Church for among such he will not be found neither will he be eaten there This great Sacrament being thus instituted ordained then God proceedeth for he disposeth expoundeth The Covenant disposed into the form of a testament The legal part Levit. 18.5 Gal. 3.19 and confirmeth his covenant into the forme of a Testament having two parts the one legal conditionall requiring perfect obedience and under that condition promising eternall life Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments which if a man do he shall live in them And that legall part of the covenant was added that is to say further expounded put into a better method and written as Saint Paul saith because of transgressions How so Why first to discover sins and transgressions for by the law is the knowledge of sin Rom. 3.20 Rom. 7.7 I had not knowne sin but by the law for I had not knowne lust except the law had said Thou shalt not covet 2ly To punish sins and transgressions for the punishment is prescribed by the law the punishment prescribed by the law is the curse of the law Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law Deut. 27.26 to do them 3ly To smite the conscience and to make a man to condemn himselfe for the sins and transgressions which he hath done as Saint Paul saith We know that what things soever the law saith Rom. 3.9 it saith to them that are under the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God In the confession of sins saith Saint Jerome upon the place 4ly To shew unto the people by whom sins and transgressions are to be expiated viz. not by those Leviticall Ordinances but by him who was set forth in the Leviticall Priesthood and by all the sacrifices of the Law that is Jesus Christ Eph. 1.7 In whom we have redemption through his blood the forgivenesse of sins according to the riches of his grace For the law saith the Apostle having a shadow of good things to come Heb. 10.1 and not the very image of the things can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the commers thereunto perfect The other part of that Testament was Evangelicall The Evangelicall part setting before their eyes the Redemption of Jesus Christ and giving them to understand that man should be reconciled unto God and delivered out of all miser●● by his death Upon which part of the testament he putteth a most rich and sumptuous robe whereunto belonged 1st that Tabernacle or portable Temple which Moses at Gods commandment made in the Wildernesse the pattern whereof was shewed unto him in the Mount Exod. 25.40 Act. 7.44 Heb. 8.5 with all the sacred utensills thereunto belonging the Arke of the covenant the golden table the shew-bread the golden candlestick the altar of incense the altar of burnt offerings the brasen laver all which are to the life set forth as God commanded and as Moses made them in the book of Exodus Cap. 25 26 27 30 36 37 38 40. The Tabernacle The mystery of the Tabernacle as it was the house of divine worship did represent the Church for in his Church and only in his Church is the true worship of God The Pillars were types of the Apostles Bishops and other Ministers of the new Testament by whose faith and function the Church is upheld Their sockets of brasse the faith of Christ in which they stand strongly grounded and rooted immoveable as pillars in their sockets The golden boords with their sockets and bars did represent the faithfull far more pretious then gold who like gold do shine and glister in all holy conversation The curtains of fine twined linnen and blew and purple and scarlet with cherubims of cunning work coupled together with loops and taches of gold did signifie that the members of the Church adorned with the severall graces of the Holy Ghost are knit and joyned together in the unity of one and the same Spirit by the bond of peace The Rams skins died red and the Badgers skins for the covering aloft did mean the Gentiles made partakers of the same redeeming blood and their faith and fortitude in withstanding the violent stormes of persecution The other vailes namely that of the outward court and that which was betwixt the outward court and the holy place did shew forth the humility of Christ wherewith the Divinity as with a vail was shaddowed and through which the Godhead entred in to be sacrificed and to make an attonement for the sins of men But the inward vail which was hung up before the holy of holies or the holiest of all which was inaccessable to all and a type of heaven into which only the high Priest entred and that but once a year upon the great day of expiation according to our accompt the tenth day of September did import that the way into the Holiest of all was not made manifest while the first Tabernacle was yet standing Heb. 9.8 The High Priest must go in making the attonement that so heaven gates may be opened unto the sons of Adam who were shut out by sin When thou hadst overcome the sharpnesse of death singeth the Church thou didst open the kingdome of heaven to all believers But who is sufficient to declare the mysterie of all these things The matter and form of the Ark The Ark. is luculently set forth in the book of Exodus Cap. 25. 37. It was placed in the most holy place impervious unto all save only to the high Priest called in the Scripture the Arke of the covenant of the Lord Num. 10.33 Josh 3.6 because the tables of the covenant were laid up there together with the golden pot of Manna and Aaron's budding Rod. It was a visible testification of Gods divine presence from whence he gave Answers where God did as it were make his habitation and therefore called also the Arke of the Lord God of hosts 1 Sam. 4.4 that dwelleth between the Cherubims It was a type of Christ for the gold of the Ark did signifie the Divinity of Christ the wood of the Ark did signifie the humanity of Christ the crown environing did signifie the hypostatical union whereby was shewed what Christ must be in his own person viz. God man hypostatically united in one person It was a symbol of Religion for what else meant the tables of the ten commandements which were laid