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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

as a God of compassion God is infinite in all his attributes in his justice as well as in his mercy these two cannot interfere as justice cannot intrench upon mercy so neither may mercy encroach upon justice the glory of both must be maintained Now by the breach of the Law the justice of God is wronged so that although mercy be apt to pardon yet justice requires satisfaction and calls for vengeance on sinners Every transgression Heb. 2. 2. must receive just recompence and God will not in any case absolve the guilty till this be done the hands of Exod. 34. 7. mercy are tied that she cannot act And seeing satisfaction could not be made to an infinite majesty but by an equal person and price therefore the son of God must become a curse for us by taking our nature and pouring out his soul to the death and by this means justice and mercy are reconciled and kiss each other and mercy now being set at liberty hath her free course to save poor sinners God will have his justice satisfied to the full and therefore Christ must bear all the punishment due to our sins or else God cannot set us free for he cannot go against his own just will observe the force of that phrase Christ ought to suffer And thus it behoved Christ to suffer Luk. 24. 26. and Mat. 26. 54. Thus it must be why must but because it was 1. So decreed by God 2. Foretold by the Prophets every particular of Christ's sufferings were foretold by the prophets even to their very spitting in his face 3. Prefigured in the daily morning and evening sacrifice this Lamb of God was sacrificed from the beginning of the world A necessity then there was of our Saviour's sufferings not a necessity of coaction for he died freely John 10. 11 14 17 18. and voluntarily but of immutability and infallibility for the former reasons mentioned An earthly Prince that is just holds himself bound to inflict punishment impartially upon the malefactor or his surety it stands upon his honour he saith it must be so I cannot do otherwise this is true much more of God who is Justice it self God who is great in counsel and excellent in working had store of means at hand whereby to set free and recover lost man-kind yet he was pleased in his infinite wisdom to pitch upon this way of satisfaction as being most agreeable to his holy nature and most suitable to his high and sovereign ends viz. Man's salvation and his own glory and that God doth stand upon full satisfaction and will not forgive one sin without it may be thus made evident First from the nature of sin which is that abominable 1. ●e● 44. 4. God could not ●salv● jure pass over the sin of man so as absolutely to let it go unpunished thing which God hates The sinner deserves to die for his sins Rom. 6. 23. Tho wages of sin is death every sinner is worthy of death They which commit such things are worthy of death Rom. 1. 32. Now God is just and righteous It is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them that trouble you 2 Thes 1. 6. yea and God did therefore set forth Christ to be a propitiation through faith in bis blood Rom. 3. 25. To declare his righteousness that he might be just vers 26. Now if God be a just and righteous God then sin cannot absolutely escape unpunished for it is just with God to punish the sinner who is worthy of punishment and certainly God must deny himself if he will not be just 2 Tim. 2. 13. but this he can never do sin is of an infinite guilt and hath an infinite evil in the nature of it and therefore no person in heaven or earth but that person our Lord Jesus who is God-man and who had an infinite dignity that could either procure the pardon of it or make satisfaction for it no prayers no cries no tears no humblings no repentings no resolutions no reformations c. can stop the course of Justice or procure the guilty sinners pardon 't is Christ alone that can dissolve all obligations to punishment and break all bonds and chains of guilt and hand a pardon to us through his own blood Eph. 1. 7. we are set free by the blood of Christ By the blood of thy Zach. 9. 11. covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit 't is by his blood that we are justified and saved from wrath Rom. 5. 9. Much more being justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath by him Pray tell me what is it to be justified but to be pardoned and what is it to be saved from wrath but to be delivered from all punishment Eph. 2. 13. Colos 1. 20. and both these depend upon the blood of Christ But The veracity of God requires it Look as God cannot but be just so he cannot but be true and if he cannot but be true then he will make good the threatnings that are gone out of his mouth Gen. 2. 17. In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die Heb. in dying thou Under the name of death are comprehended all other calamities miseries and sorrows shalt die death is a fall that came in by a fall and without all p●radventure every man should die the same day he was born for the wages of sin is death and this wages should be presently paid did not Christ reprieve poor sinner's lives for a season upon which account he is said to be the Saviour of all men not of eternal preservation but of a temporal reservation He will by no means clear 1 Tim. 4. 10. the guilty The soul that sinneth it shall die Ezek. 18. Exod. 34. 7. 20. The wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him Rom. 2. 6. He will render to every man according to his deeds Oh sirs God can never so far yield as to abrogate his own Law and quietly to sit down with injury and loss to his own Justice himself having established a Law c. The Law pronounces him cursed that continues not in all things Gal. 3. 10. that are written therein to do them Now though the threatnings of men are frequently vain and frivolous yet the threatnings of the great God shall certainly take place and have their accomplishment though many ten thousand millions of sinners perish not one tittle of the Mat. 5. 18. dreadful threatnings of God shall fail till all be fulfilled Josephus saith that from that very time that old Eli heard those terrible threatnings that made their ears tingle 1 Sam. 3. 11 12 13 14. and hearts tremble that heard them Eli never ceased weeping ah who can look upon the dreadful threatnings that are pointed against sinners all over the book of God and not tremble and weep God cannot but in justice punish sinners neither is it in his choice

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