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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

tempteth him by divine power to turn all those stones which were there in that stony place of the desert likely the mount Horeb where he was into bread or at least one of them if he were able shewing him and pointing at as well all the stones as that particular stone Command that these stones be made bread S. Mat. 4.3 S. Luc. 4.3 Command this stone that it be made bread Christ replyeth that there was no necessity to command either the stones in generall or that stone in particular to be made bread for that God was able to feed and nourish him by other food by other waies and means and although he should never eat or drink by his own word and power onely intimating thereby that he had been nourished and sustained without any manner of food by the space of forty dayes through the word and power of God as Moses and Elias had been before And when the tempter came to him he said S. Mat. 4.3 If thou be the son of God command that these stones be made bread But he answered and said It is written Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God 4. Dcut. 8.3 And when he had cited that scripture so written in Deuteronomie to put him in mind also how that God fed the people of Israel in the wilderness by the space of forty years without bread The second temptation the Devill betakes himself to another engine and seeing that he could not tempt him to diffide he tempteth him to presume He brought him to Hierusalem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the holy city so called because the Temple and divine worship were fixed there as in that place which the Lord had chosen to put his name there though otherwise as hath been observed before Hierusalem at that time was rather the valley of slaughter and a den of thieves then the royall seat of the King or the place of holy worship guilty of all the righteous blood shed upon the whole earth from the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias whom they slew between the Temple and the Altar S. Mat. 23.35 He brought him not thither by violence but freely voluntarily and by his own consent he did as it were lead him thither by the hand and transferred him as one that had submitted himself to be led and transferred by him For so much I collect from the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 used by St. Luke and from the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 used by St. Matthew He brought him not thither in a vision neither did he delude his senses for the temptations of Christ were not visions or phantasies but realities therefore though we cannot tell how he brought him thither whether by a terrestriall journy or by swift motion through the aire yet sure it is he brought him thither really actually substantially locally but whether visibly to any or invisibly to all we have not to say Having brought him thither he setteth him upon a pinacle of the temple an exceeding high pinacle said to be six hundred foot from the bottom to the top biddeth him to declare himselfe to be the Son of God by casting himselfe downe for if that he were so indeed he should receive no hurt for as much as God had commanded the care over him to his Angels who would readily hold him up in their hands And because that Christ had repelled the former temptation by the sacred authority of Scripture he thought to prevail in this by the same authority Psal 91.11 12. He quoteth a place out of the book of Psalmes but not truly for how could he who is the father of lies The prophet doth not say In their hands they shall bear thee up but that they shall keep thee in all thy waies Christ repelleth the temptation by authority of Scripture rightly and truly alledged out of the book of Deuteronomy Deut. 6.16 telleth him that his waies are not waies of presumption but of providence for it is written Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God This was the second temptation reckoned in the third place by Saint Luke the Evangelist respecting more the verity of history then the exactness of order Then the devill taketh him up into the holy city S. Mat. 4.5 and se●teth him on a pinacle of the temple and saith unto him If thou be the son of God cast thy selfe down for it is written 6 He shall give his Angells charge concerning thee and in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone 7 Iesus said unto him It is written again Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Being repelled in this second temptation and seeing he could not prevail with him for the manifestation of his divinity to do miracles either in diffidency or presumption The third temptation he gives the onset once more tempting him to abjure his divinity by the sin of idolatry He taketh him as before not by violence but freely voluntarily and by his own consent not in a vision or by phantasie and transferreth him really actually substantially locally but whether visibly to any or invisibly to all we cannot say and bringeth him up into an exceeding high mountain peradventure to the top of mount Horeb where Moses and Elias fasted if not rather to the top of Pisgah from whence Moses took a view of the land of promise And there in such a manner as was possible for him to shew them and for Christ to see and discern them for he did shew them and Christ did see and discern them he shewed him all the kingdomes of the world and the glory of them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We must not question how this could be done This word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how or in what manner is a manifest argument of incredulity saith Iustine Martyr Certain it is the one did shew them and the other see them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a moment of time And then the devill takes up his old trade of lying tells him that all those things are delivered unto him to give and to dispose at his pleasure if therefore he would fall down and worship him S. Luc. 2.7 all should be his By covetousnesse and ambition as by his greatest engine battering this impregnable fort Idolatry as Aquinas saith is gravissimum peccatum the greatest or most grievous sin It presupposeth infidelity it addeth an undue externall worship a pernicious ly great blasphemy against God and impugnation of the faith Therefore when he tempted him to idolatry our blessed Lord would endure his pride and insolency no longer having thus far by divine permission submitted himselfe to be tempted by him but useth his authority commandeth him to depart and telleth him by authority of Scripture Deut. 10.20 S. Mat. 4.8 who it is that is