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A29689	A golden key to open hidden treasures, or, Several great points that refer to the saints present blessedness and their future happiness, with the resolution of several important questions here you have also the active and passive obedience of Christ vindicated and improved ... : you have farther eleven serious singular pleas, that all sincere Christians may safely and groundedly make to those ten Scriptures in the Old and New Testament, that speak of the general judgment, and of that particular judgment, that must certainly pass upon them all immediately after death ... / by Tho. Brooks ...	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.; Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680. Golden key to open hidden treasures. Part 2.	1675 (1675)	Wing B4942; ESTC R20167	340,648	428

to prove this expression is very weighty because all the wrath that was due for all the sins of the Elect all whose sins were laid on Christ Isa 53. 6. was greater than the wrath which belonged to any one sinner though damned for his personal sinning and besides this if you do seriously consider those sufferings of Christ in his Agony in the Garden you may by them conjecture what hellish torments Christ did suffer for us In that Agony of his he was afraid and amazed and fell Math. 14. 33. vers 34. flat on the ground He began to be sore amazed and to be very heavy and saith unto them My soul is exceeding sorowful unto death and his sweat was as it were great Luk 22. 44. drops of blood falling down to the ground He did sweat clotted blood to such abundance that it streamed through his apparel and did wet the ground which dreadful Agony of Christ how it could arise from any other cause than the sense of the wrath of God parallel to that in Hell I know not Orthodox Divines do generally take Christs sufferings in his soul and the detaining his body in the grave put in as the close and last part of Christs sufferings as the true meaning of that expression He descended into Hell not only because these pains which Christ suffered both in body and soul were due to us in full measure but also because that which Christ in point of torment and vexation suffered was in some respect of the same kind with the torment of the damned For the clearing of this consider that in the punishment of the damned there are these three things 1 The perverse disposition of the mind of the damned in their sufferings 2. The duration and perpetuity of their punishment And 3. The punishment it self tormenting soul and body Of these three the first two could have no place in Christ Not the first Because Heb. 9. 14. Heb. 10. 5 6 7 8. Act. 2. 24. 1 Pet. 2. 24. 1 Cor. 6. ult he willingly offered himself a Sacrifice for our sins and upon agreement paid the Ransom fully Not the second Because he could no longer be held under sorrows and sufferings than he had satisfied Divine Justice and paid the price that he was to lay down And his infinit excellency and glory made his short sufferings to be of infinit worth and equivalent to our everlasting sufferings The third then only remaineth which was the real and sensible torments of his soul and body which he did really feel and experience when he was upon the Cross O Sirs What need you question Christs undergoing of Hellish pains when all the pains torments curse and wrath which was due to the Elect did fall on Christ and lye on Christ till Divine Justice was fully satisfied Though Christ did not suffer eternal death for sinners yet he suffered that which was equivalent and therefore the justice of God is by his death wholly appeased It is good seriously to ponder upon these Scriptures Psal 18. 5. The sorrows of Hell did compass me about Psal 88. 3. My soul is filled with evil and my life draweth near to Hell Psal 86. 13. Thou hast delivered my Soul from the nethermost Hell In these places the Prophet speaks in the person of Christ and the Papists themselves do confess that the Hebrew word Sheol that is here used is taken for Hell properly and not for the Grave therefore these places do strongly conclude for the hellish sorrows or sufferings of Christ So Act. 2. 27. Thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell If Christs soul be not left or forsaken in Hell yet it follows it was in Hell not that Christ did feel the sorrows of Hell after death but that he did feel the very sorrows of Hell in his soul while he lived Certainly the whole punishment of body and soul which was due unto us Christ our Redeemer was in general to suffer and satisfie for in his own person but the torments and terrors of Hell and the vehement sense of Gods wrath are that punishment which did belong to the soul ergo Christ did suffer the torments and terrors of Hell By the whole punishment you are to understand the whole kind or substance of the punishment not all the circumstances and the very same manner the whole punishment then is the whole kind of punishment that is in body and soul which Christ ought to have suffered though not in the same manner and circumstance 1. neither for the place of Hell Locally Nor 2. For the time Eternally Nor 3. For the manner Sinfully When we say Christ was to suffer our whole punishment all such punishments as cannot be suffered without sin as desperation final reprobation are manifestly excepted Christ did bear all our punishment though not as we should have borne it that is 1. Sinfully 2. Eternally 3. Hellishly But he did so bear all our punishment as to finish all upon the Cross and in such sort as Gods justice 2 Col 14. 15. was satisfied his Person not disgraced nor his Holiness defiled and yet mans Salvation fully perfected We H●b 9. 4 cap. 10. 15. constantly affirm that Christ did suffer the pains of Hell in his Soul with these three restrictions 1. That there be neither indignity offered to his Royal Person 2. Nor injury to his Holy Nature 3. Nor impossibility to his glorious work All such pains of Hell then as Christ might have suffered 1. His Person not dishonoured 2. His Nature with sin not defiled 3. His work of our Redemption not hindered we do stedfastly believe were sustained by our Blessed Saviour Consider a few things First Consider the adjuncts of Hell which are these four 1. The place which is Infernal 2. The time which is Perpetual 3. The darkness which is unspeakable 4. The Ministers and Torments the Spirits and Devils which are irreconcileable Now these adjuncts of Hell Christ is freed from for the dignity of his person it was not fit that the Son of God the Heir of Heaven should be shut up in Hell or that he should for ever be tormented who is never from Gods presence sequestred or that the light of the world should be closed up in darkness or that he who bindeth the evil Spirits should be bound by them c. Secondly Consider the effects or rather the defects of Hell which are chiefly these two First The deprivation of all vertue grace holiness Secondly The real possession of all Vice Impiety Blasphemy c. Now the necessity of the work of Christ doth exempt him from these effects for if he had been either void of grace or possessed with vice he could not have been the Redeemer of poor lost souls for the want of Vertue he could not have Redeemed others for the presence of sin he should have been Redeemed himself and from fretting Indignation and fearful Desperation the piety and sanctity of his Nature doth preserve him who

nourish but they cannot heal others can enrich bu● they cannot secure others can adorn but cannot advance all do serve but none do satisfie they are like a beggars coat made up of many pieces not all enough either to beautifie defend or satisfie but there is enough in a suffering Christ to fill us and satisfie us to the full Christ has the greatest worth and wealth in him Look as the worth and value of many pieces of Silver is to be found in one piece of Gold so all the petty excellencies that are scattered abroad in the creatures we to be found in a bleeding dying Christ yea all the whole volume of perfections which is spread through heaven and earth is epitomized in him that suffered on the Cross nec Christus nec coelum patitur hyperbolen a man cannot hyperbolize in speaking of Christ and heaven but must entreat his hearers as Tully doth his readers concerning the worth of L. Crassus ut majus quiddam de iis quam quae scripta sunt suspicarentur 3. De oratore that they would conceive much more than he was able to express certainly it is as easie to compass the heavens with a span and contein the sea in a nut-shell as to relate fully a suffering Christ's excellencies or heaven's happiness O sirs there is in a crucified Jesus something proportionable to all the straits wants necessities and desires of his poor people He is bread to nourish them and a garment to John 6. 5 6 37. Rev. 13. 14. Mat. 9. 12. Isa 9. 6. Heb. 2. 10. Act. 5. 31. cover and adorn them a Physician to h●al them a Counseller to advise them a Captain to defend them a Prince to rule a Prophet to teach and a Priest to make attonement Act. 7. 37 38. Heb. 2. 17 18. cap. 4. 15 16. 2 Cor. 11. 2. Isa 9. 6 7. John 20. 17. Isa 28. 16. Rev. 22. 16. Eph. 1. 22 23. for them an Husband to protect a Father to provide a Brother to relieve a Foundation to support a Root to quicken a Head to guide a Treasure to enrich a Sun to enlighten and a Fountain to cleanse Now what can any Christian desire more to satisfie him and save him to make him holy and happy in both Worlds Shall the Romans and other Nations highly value those that have but ventur'd to lay down their lives for their Countrey and shall not we highly value the Lord Jesus Christ who hath actually laid down his life for his sheep I have John 10. 11 15 17. read of one who walking in the fields by himself of a sudden fell into loud cries and weeping and being asked by one that passed by and over-heard him the cause of his lamentation I weep saith he to think that the Lord Jesus Christ should do so much for us men and yet not one man of a thousand so much as mind him or think of him Oh what a bitter Lamentation have we cause to take up that the Lord Jesus Christ has suffered so many great and grievous things for poor sinners and that there are so few that sincerely love him or that highly value him most men preferring their lusts or else the Toys and Trifles of this world above him But Fifthly let the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ work us all into a gracious willingness to embrace sufferings for his sake and chearfully and resolutely to take up his Cross Mat. 16. 24. and follow him did Christ suffer who knew no sin and shall we think it strange to suffer who know nothing but sin shall he lie swelthering under his father's wrath and shall we cry out of men's anger was he crowned Godfrey of Bullen first King of Jerusalem refused to be crowned with a Crown of Gold saying that it became not a Christian to wear a Crown of Gold where Christ for our salvation had worn a Crown of thorns with thorns and must we be crowned with rose-buds was his whole life from the cradle to the cross made up of nothing but sorrows and sufferings and must our lives from the cradle to the grave be filled up with nothing but pleasures and delights was he despised and must we be admired was he debased and must we be exalted was he poor and must we be rich was he low and must we be high did he drink of a bitter cup a bloody cup and will no cups serve our turns but cups of consolation Let us not think any thing too much to do for Christ nor any thing too great to suffer for Christ nor any thing too dear to part with for such a Christ such a Saviour that thought nothing too much to do or too grievous to suffer that so he might accomplish the work of our Redemption He left heaven for us and shall not John 1. 18. we let go this world for him he left his father's bosom for us and shall not we leave the bosoms of our dearest Relations Psal 45. 10 11. Mat. 10. 37. for him he underwent all sorts of sufferings for us let us as readily encounter with all sorts of sufferings for him Paul was so inur'd to sufferings for Christ that ● Cor. 12. 10. 2 Cor. 11. 23 to verse 28. he could rejoice in his sufferings he gloried most in his chains and he looked upon his scars buffetings scourgings stoneings for Christ as his greatest triumphs And how ambitious were the primitive Christians of Martyrdom in the cause of Christ and of late in the times of the Marian Persecution how many hundreds chearfully and willingly laid down their lives mounting Eliah-like to heaven in fiery charriots And oh how will Christ own and honour such Christians at last as have Rev. 3. 21. not set on others but exposed themselves to hazards losses and sufferings for his sake as those brave souls who Rev. 12. 11. loved not their lives unto the death that is the despised their lives in comparison of Christ they exposed their Heb. 11 33 to 39. cap. 10. 34. bodies to horrible and painful deaths their temporal estates to the spoyl and their persons to all manner of shame and contempt for the cause of Christ in the days of that bloody persecutor Dioclesian the Christians shewed certatim Plo●iosa in certamina ruebatur c. Sulpitius as glorious power in the faith of Martyrdom as in the faith of Miracles the valour of the patients and the savageness of the persecutors striving together till both exceeding nature and belief bred wonder and astonishment in beholders and readers In all Ages and Generations they that have been born after the flesh have persecuted Gal. 4. 29. them that have been born after the spirit and the seed of the serpent have been still a multiplying of troubles upon the seed of the woman Would any man take the Churches picture saith Luther then let him paint a poor silly maid sitting in a wilderness compassed about with hungry