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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	ghost_n	son_n	trinity_n	2,658	5	10.0265	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29699	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 ...; Golden key to open hidden treasures. Part 2	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1675 (1675)	Wing B4953; ESTC R11759	249,733	284

glory which thou hast given me ●hus I have glanced at Christ's solemn demand on earth for the full accomplishment of that blessed Compact Covenant Agreement and Promises that were made to him when he undertook the office of a Mediator and now is in heaven he appears in the presence of God for us as a 〈…〉 9. ●4 Lawyer appears in open Court for his Client opens the case pleads the cause and carries the day The Verb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 translated to appear signifieth conspicuously to manifest It is sometimes taken in a good sense viz. to appear for one as a Favourite before a Prince or as an Advocate or an Attourney before a Judge or as the High Priests appeared once a year in the Holy of Holiest to Exod. 30. 10. make atonement for the people Christ is the great Favourite in the Court of glory and is always at God's Rom. 8. 34. right hand ready on all occasions to present our petitions to his Father to pacifie his anger and to obtain all 1 Jo● 2. 1. noble and needful favours for us And Christ is our great Advocate to plead our cause effectually for us Look as in Humane Courts there is the Guilty the Accuser the Court the Judge and the Advocate so it is here Heaven is the Court Man is the guilty Person Satan is the Accuser God is the Judge and Christ is the Advovocate Now look as the Advocate appeareth in the Court before the Judge to plead for the guilty against the accuser so doth Christ appear before God in heaven to answer all Satan's objections and accusations that he may make in the Court of heaven against us He ever lives to make intercession for us Heb. 7. 25. The verb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 translated intercession is a compound and signi●ies to call upon one it is a judicial word and importeth a calling upon a Judge to be heard in this or that against A●● 25. ●● R●m 11. 2. c●p 8. 34. another or for another so here Christ maketh intercession for them The Metaphor is taken from Attorneys or Advocates who appear for men in Courts of Justice from Counsellers who plead their Clients cause answer the Adversary supplicate the Judge and procure sentence to pass on their Clients side This Act of making Intercession may also be taken from Kings Favourites who are much in the King's presence and ever ready to make request for their friends But remember though this be thus attributed to Christ yet we may not think that in heaven Christ prostrateth himself before him or maketh actual prayers that was a part of his humiliation which he did in the days of his flesh but it implyeth ●eb 5 7. a presenting of himself a Sacrifice a Surety and one that hath made satisfaction for all our sins together with manifesting of his will and desires that such and such should partake of the vertue and benefit of his Sacrifice so as Christ's intercession consisteth rather in the perpetual vigour of his Sacrifice and continual application thereof than in any actual supplication The intendment of this Phrase applyed to Christ to make intercession is to shew that Christ being God's Favourite and our Advocate continually appeareth before God to make application of that Sacrifice which once he offered up for our sins Christ appears in the presence of God for us 1. To present unto his Father himself who is the price of our Redemption 2 To make application of his Sacrifice to his Church time after time according to the need of the several members thereof 3. To make our persons prayers services and all good things acceptable to God But Seventhly and lastly The whole Compact and Agreement between God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ about the Redemption of poor sinner's souls was really and solemnly transacted in open Court or as I may say in the High Court of Justice above in the presence of the great publick Notary of heaven viz. the Holy Ghost who being a third Person of the glorious Trinity of the same Divine Essence and of equal power and glory makes up a third Legal Witness with the Father and the Son They being a●ter the manner of Kings their own Witnesses So the King write● 〈◊〉 me●●● This 1 Joh. 5. 7. is a very clea● Proof and Testimony of the Trinity of Persons in the Unity of the Divine ●ssence they are ●ll one in ●ssence and Will As if three lamps were lighted in o●● chamber albeit the lamps be di●ers yet the lights ●annot be s● 〈◊〉 so in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is a distruction of Perso●s 〈◊〉 ● 〈…〉 phei●y of nature also 1 Joh. 5. 7. For there be three that ●ear record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one Three 1. In the true and real distinction of their Persons 2. In their inward Properties as to beget to be begotten and to proceed 3. In their several offices one to another as to send and to be sent And these three are one one in Nature and Essence one in Power and Will one in the act of producing all such actions as without themselves any of them is said to act and one in their Testimony concerning the Covenant of Redemption that was agreed on between the Father and the Son Consent of all parties the Allowance of the Judge and publick Record is as much as can be desi●ed to make all publick Contracts authentick in Courts of Justice and what can we desire more to settle satisfie and assure our own souls that all the Article of the Covenant of Redemption shall on all hands be 〈…〉 inly made good than this that these three heave●ly Witnesse● God the Father God the Son and God the Holy G●●st do all agree to the Articles of the Covenant and 〈◊〉 Witnesses to the same Covenant Thus you see that there was a Covenant of Redemption made with Christ upon the terms whereof he is constituted to be a 〈◊〉 to say to the prisoners go forth to bring delivera●●e to the captives and to proclaim the year of release or Jubile the acceptable year of the Lord as it is Isa 61. 1 2. I have been the longer in opening the ●ovenant of Redemption partly because of its grand importance to all our souls and partly because others have spoken so little to it to the best of my observation and partly because I have never before handled this Subject either in the Pulpit or the Press c. 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 that Eccles 11. 9. cap. 12. 14. Mat. 12. 14. cap. 18. 23. Luk. 16. 2. Rom. ●4 10. 2 Cor. 5. 10. Heb. 9. 27. cap. 13. 17. 1 Pet. 4. 5. Isa 53. 6.