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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

John 1. 7. imagine that there should be more demerit in any sin yea in all sin to condemn a believer than there is merit in Rom. 8. 1 33 34 35. Christ's righteousness to absolve him to justifie him The righteousness of Christ was shadowed out by the glorious Robes and apparrel of the High Priest That Exod. 30. attire in which the High Priest appeared before God what was it else but a type of Christ's righteousness The filthy garments of Joshua who represented the Church were not only taken off from him thereby signifying the removal of our sins but also a new fair garment Zach. 3. 4 5. was put upon him to signifie our being clothed with the wedding garment of Christ's righteousness If any shall say how is it possible that a soul that is defiled with the worst of sins should be whiter than the snow yea Psal 51. 7. beautiful and glorious in the cyes of God the answer is at hand because to whomsoever the Lord doth give the pardon of his sins which is the first part of our justification to them he doth also impute the righteousness of Christ which is the second part of our justification before God thus David describeth saith the Apostle the blessedness of Rom. 4. 6 7. the man to whom the Lord imputeth reghteousness without works saying blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered Now to that man whose sins the Lord forgives to him he doth impute righteousness also Take away the filthy garments from him saith Zach. 3. 4. the Lord of Joshua and he said unto him behold I have cansed thine iniquity to pass from thee and I will cloth thee with change of raiment and what was that change of raiment surely the perfect obedience and righteousness of the Lord Jesus which God doth impute unto us in which respect also we are said by justifying faith to Rom. 12. 14. Gal. 3. 27. put on the Lord Jesus and to be clothed with him as with a garment And no marvel if being so apparelled we appear beautiful and glorious in the sight of God To her that is to Christ's Bride was granted that she should Rev. 19. 8. be arrayed in fine linnen clean and white for the fine linnen is the righteousness of saints This perfect righteousness of Christ which the Lord imputeth to us and wherewith as with a garment he clothed us is the only righteousness which the Saints have to stand before God with and having that Robe of righteousness on they may stand with great boldness and comfort before the judgment-seat of God But Thirdly Know for your comfort that this righteousness of Christ presents us perfectly righteous in the sight of God He is made to us righteousness The Robe of innocency 1 Cor. 1. 30. like the veil of the Temple is rent asunder our righteousness is a ragged righteousness our righteousnesses Isa 6● 4. are as filthy rags Look as under rags the naked body is seen so under the rags of our righteousness the body of death is seen Christ is all in all in regard of righteousness Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness to Rom. 10. 4. them that believe That is through Christ we are as righteous as if we Finis persiciens nen intersic●ens Aug. had satisfied the Law in our own persons The end of the Law is to justifie and save those which fulfil it Christ subjected himself thereto he perfectly fulfilled it for us and his perfect righteousness is imputed to us Christ fulfilled the moral Law not for himself but for us therefore Christ doing it for believers they fulfil the Law in Christ and so Christ by doing and they believing in him that doth it do fulfil the Law or Christ may be faid to be the end of the Law because the end of the Law is perfect righteousness that a man may be justified thereby which end we cannot attain of our selves through the frailty of our flesh but by Christ we attain it who hath fulfilled the Law for us Christ hath perfectly fulfilled the Decalogue for us and that 3 ways 1. In his pure conception 2. In his godly life 3. in his holy and obedient sufferings and all for us for whatsoever the Law required that we should be do or suffer he hath performed in our behalf Therefore one wittily saith that Christ Arctius is Telos the end or tribute and we by his payment Ateleis Tribute free we are discharged by him before God Christ in respect of the integrity and purity of his nature being conceived without sin and in respect of his life and Mat. 1. 18. Luk. 1. 35. 2 Cor. 5. 21. Cel. 1. 20. actions being wholly conformed to the absolute righteousness of the Law and in respect of the punishment which he suffered to make satisfaction unto God's justice for the breach of the Law in these respects Christ is the perfection of the Law and the end of the Law for righteousness to them that believe Jacob got the blessing in the garment of his elder brother so in the garment of Christ's righteousness who is our elder brother we obtain Eph. ● 4. the blessing yea all spiritual blessings in heavenly places we are made the righteousness of God in him The 2 Cor. 5. ult Church saith Marlorat which puts on Christ and his righteousness is more illustrious than the air is by the sun The infinite wisdom and power of dear Jesus in reconciling the Law and the Gospel in this great mystery of justification is greatly to be magnified In the blessed Scriptures we find the righteousness of Justification to take its various denominations In respect of the material cause it is called the righteousness of the Law In respect of the efficient cause it is called the righteousness of Rom. 5. 17. 1 Cor. 1. 30. Rom. 3. 22. Phil. 3. 9. Phil. 3. 9. Rom. 3. 24. Titus 3. 7. Christ in respect of the formal It is called the righteousness of God he imputing of it In respect of the instrumental cause it is called the righteousness of faith And in respect of the moving and final cause we are said to be justified freely by Grace The Law as it was a Covenant of works required exact and perfect obedience in men's proper persons this was legal Justification But in the new Covenant God is contented to accept this righteousness in the hand of a surety and this is Evangelical Justification this righteousness presents us in the sight of God as all fair Cant. 4. 7. as complete Colos 2. 10. as without spot or wrinkle Eph. 5. 27. as without fault before the throne of God Rev. 14. 5. as holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight Colos 1. 22. Oh the happiness and blessedness the safety and glory of those precious souls who in the righteousness of Jesus Christ stand perfectly rightcous in the sight of God but

fair so full and so noble a plea to make in the great day of our Lord Jesus But some may say what blessed fruit grows upon this Que. glorious Tree of Paradise viz. the righteousness of Jesus Christ that is imputed to all believers what strong consolations flows from this fountain the Imputed Righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ I answer there are these nine choice consolations that flow in upon all believers through the righteousness of Christ imputed to them First let all believers know for their comfort that in this Imputed Righteousness of Christ there is enough to satisfie the justice of God to the uttermost farthing and to take off all his judicial anger and fury The mediatory righteousness of Christ is so perfect so full so exact so compleat and so fully satisfactory to the Justice of God as that Divine Justice cries out I have enough and I require no more I have found a ransom and I am fully pacified towards you 'T is certain that Christ was truly Ezek. 16. 61 62 63. Heb. 10. 10 11 12 14. Isa 53. 4 5 6. and properly a sacrifice for sin and 't is as certain that our sins were the meritorious cause of his sufferings he did put himself into poor sinners stead he took their guilt upon him and did undergo that punishment which they should have undergone he did die and shed his blood Rom. 5. 6 12. that he might thereby atone God and expiate sin and therefore we may safely and boldly conclude that Jesus Christ hath satisfied the justice of God to the uttermost Heb. 7. 25. so that now the believing sinner may rejoyce and triumph in the justice as well as in the mercy of God for doubtless the Mediatory righteousness of Christ was infinitely more satisfactory and pleasing to God than all the sins of believers could be displeasing to him God took more pleasure and delight in the bruising of his son in Isa 53. 10. the humiliation of his son and he smelt a sweeter savour in his sacrifice than all our sins could possibly offend him or provoke him when a believer casts his eyes upon his many thousand sinful commissions and omissions no wonder if he fears and trembles but then when he looks upon Christ's satisfaction he may see himself acquitted and rejoyce for if there be no charge no accusation a-against Rom. 8. 33 34 35 36 37. the Lord Jesus there can be none against the believer Christ's expiatory sacrifice hath fully satisfied divine justice and upon that very ground every believer hath cause to triumph in Christ Jesus and in that righteousness 2 Cor. 2. 14. Rev. 14. 4 5. of his by which he stands justified before the Throne of God Christ is a person of infinite transcendent worth and excellency and it makes highly for his honour to justifie believers in the most ample and glorious way imaginable c. and what way is that but by working out for and then investing them with a righteousness adequate to the Law of God a righteousness that should be every way commensurate to the miserable estate of fallen man and to the holy design of the glorious God 'T is the high honour of the second Adam that he hath restored to fallen man a more glorious righteousness than that he lost in the first Adam and it would be high blasphemy in the eyes of Angels and men for any mortal to assert that the second Adam our Lord Jesus Christ was less powerful to save than the first Adam was to destroy The second Adam is able to save to the uttermost all such as come to God through him The second Adam is able to save to all ends and purposes perfectly Heb. 7. 25. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To the uttermost of time at all times and for ever c. saith Beza perpetually or for ever saith Tremel in aeternum saith Syrus in perpetuum saith the vulg ad plenum saith Erasmus ad perfectum saith Stapulensis he is able to save to the uttermost obligation of the Law preceptive as well as penal and to bring in perfect righteousness as well as perfect innocency he is able to save to the uttermost demand of divine justice by that perfect satisfaction that he has given to divine justice Christ is Isa 63. 1. mighty to save and as he is mighty to save so he loves to save poor sinners in such a way wherein he may most magnifie his own might and therefore he will purchase their pardon with his blood and make reparation to divine 1 Pet. 1. 18 19. justice for all the wrongs and injuries which fallen man had done to his Creator and his Royal Law and bestow upon him a better righteousness than that which Adam lost and bring him into a more safe high honourable and durable estate than that which Adam fell from when he was in his created perfection All the attributes of God do acquiess in the Imputed Righteousness of Christ so that a believer may look upon the holiness Psal 4. 8. justice and righteousness of God and rejoyce and lay himself down in peace I have read in story that Pilat being called to Rome to give an account unto the Emperour for some mis-government and male-administration he put on the seamless coat of Christ and all the time that he had that coat upon his back Caesar's fury was abated Christ has put his coat his Robe of righteousness Isa 61. 10. upon every believer upon which account all the Judicial anger wrath and fury of God towards believers ceaseth Isa 54. 9. For this is as the waters of Noah unto me for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth so I have sworn that I would not be wroth with thee nor rebuke thee vers 10. For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed but my kindness shall not depart from thee neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed saith the Lord that hath merey on thee But Secondly Know for your comfort that this imputed this mediatory Righteousness of Christ takes away all your unrighteousness it cancels every bond it takes Isa 53. 5 6 7. Colos 2. 12 13 14 15. away all iniquity and answers for all your sins Lord here are my sins of omission and here are my sins of commission but the Righteousness of Christ hath answered for them all here are my sins against the Law and here are my sins against the Gospel and here are my sins against the offers of grace the tenders of grace the strivings of grace the bowels of grace but the Rightcousness of Christ hath answered for them all I have read that when a Cordial was offered to a godly man that was sick Oh said he the cordial of cordials which I daily take is that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all our sins Oh sirs it would be high blasphemy for any to 1

makes Rom. 8. 33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect it is God that justifieth some read R●m 8. 33. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies in ●●s vecare o call in o th● I am It is a Law custom to clear men by Proclaration if one hath been indicted at the Assizes and no Bill ●roughtin against him there is an Oh yes made if any ha●e any thing to say against the prisoner at the bar let him come forth since he stands upon his freedom The application is easie it question-wise thus shall God that justifieth no such matter and if the judg acquit the prisoner at the bar he cares not though the Jaylor or his fellow prisoners condemn him so here there are no accusers that a believer needs to fear seeing that it is God himself who is the supreme Judg that absolves him as just God absolves and therefore it is to no purpose for Satan to accuse us Rev. 12. 10. nor for the Law of Moses to accuse us John 5. 45. nor for our own Consciences to accuse us Rom. 2. 25. nor for the world to accuse us God is the highest Judg and his Tribunal-seat is the supreme Judgment-seat therefore from thence there is no appealing As amongst men persons accused or condemned may appeal till they come to the highest Court but if in the highest they are absolved and discharged then they are free and safe and well so the believer being absolved before God's Tribunal seat there is no further accusations to be feared all appeals from thence being void and of no force The consideration of which should arm us and comfort us and strengthen us against all terrours of conscience guilt of sin accusation of the Law and cruelty of Satan in as much as these either dare not appear before God to accuse us or charge us or if they do it is but lost labour Ambrose gives the sence thus None can or dare retract the judgment of God for he confidently provoketh all adversaries if they dare come forth to accuse not that there is no cause but because God hath justified It is God that justifieth therefore it is in vain to accuse them and It is God that justifieth them if God doth it none can reverse it for there are none that are equal with God Let all the accusations which shall come in against thee from one hand or another be true or false they shall never hurt thee for he from whom there is no appeal hath fully acquitted thee and therefore no accusation can endanger thy peace Ah what a strong Cordial would this be to all the people of God if they would but live in the power of this glorious truth that It is God that judifies them and that there lies no accusations in the Court of Heaven against them the great reason why many poor Christians are under so many dejections despondencies and perplexities is because they drink no more of this water of life It is God that justifieth did Christians live more upon this breast It is God that justifieth they would be no more Gen. 41. 1 2 3. like Pharaoh's lean Kine but would be fat and flourishing did they but draw more out of this Well of salvation It is God that justifieth how would their spirits revive and a new life rise up in them as did in the dead child by 2 King 4. 34 35 36 37. the Prophet Elisha's applying himself to it The Imputed Righteousness of Christ is a real sure and solid foundation upon which a believer may safely build his peace joy and everlasting rest yea it will help him to glory in Rom. 5. 1 2 3. tribulations and to triumph over all adversities Isa 45. 24. Surely shall one say in the Lord I have righteousness and strength That which is the greatest terrour in the world to unbelievers is the strongest ground of comfort to believers that is the justice and wrath of God against sin Look how it was when the Angel appeared at the resurrection of our Saviour Jesus Christ The keepers were affrighted Mat. 28. 4 5. and became as dead men but it was said to the women Fear not ye for ye seek Jesus of Nazareth that was crucified so it is much more in this case when God's Justice is powerfully manifested the sinners of Sion and Isa 33. 14. the world are afraid and terrified but yet poor believers seek for Christ who was crucified ye need not fear any thing yea you may be wonderfully cheared at this and it is your greatest comfort that you have to deal with this just God who hath already received satisfaction for your sins It is observable that the Saints triumph in the justice and judgments of God that are most terrible to the enemies of God in that which is the substance of the song of Moses and the Lamb Rev. 15. 3 4 5. so in that Luk. 26. 28. where the day of judgment is described say some and that in it there shall be distress of nations and men's hearts failing them for fear viz. of the justice and wrath of God Why so it is for looking after those things that are to come upon the earth for the powers of the earth shall be shaken c. But when these things begin to come to pass Then look up and lift up your heads for your redemption draweth near This day is the most dreadful day that ever was in the world to all the ungodly but the just and faithful then shall be able to lift up their heads to see all the world on a light fire about them and all the Elements in terrible confusion But how dare a poor creature lift up his head in such a case as this They shall see the son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory here is enough to comfort the poor members of Christ to see Christ on whom they have believed and who hath satisfied God's justice for them and imputed his own righteousness to them to see him set upon his judgment seat cannot but be matter of joy and rejoycing to them Now they shall find the power of that word upon their souls Isa 40. 1. Comfort ye comfort ye my people saith the Lord speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem and say unto her that her warfare is accomplished that her iniquity is pardoned for she hath received at the Lord's hand double for her sins i. e. Their conflict with the wrath of God is at an end the punishment of their iniquity is accepted they have received in their head and surety Christ Jesus double for their sins i. e. Justice hath passed upon them in their head Christ Jesus and they are sure that the judg of all the earth will do right and will not punish their sins twice The exactness of Gods justice cannot do this Job 34. 10. Far be it from God that he should do wickedness and from the Almighty that be should commit iniquity