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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

work of Creation Again the works of Providence are great very great in the eye of God of Angels of men but what are the work● of Providence to the works of Redemption for in order to the accomplishment of that great work Christ must put off his Royal Rob●s take a journey from heaven to earth assume our nature do and die c. Again the work of Redemption by Christ will be sound a great work if you will but compare it with those Redemptions that were but Types of this Israel's Redemption from their Egyptian Bondage and from their Babilonish Bondage were very great Redemptions that were brought about by a strong hand a mighty hand and an out-stretched arm as the Scripture speaks But alas what were those Redemptions to our being redeemed from the love of sin the guilt of sin the dominion of sin the damnatory power of sin and to our being redeemed from the power of Satan the curse 1 T●●s 1. 〈…〉 of the Law Hell and wrath to come Lastly the great things that are wrapped up in the womb in the belly of Redemption speak out our Redemption by Christ to be a very great Redemption in the womb of this Redemption you shall find reconciliation justification adoption eternal salvation c. and are not these great very great things surely yes But A Second excellent Property of that Redemption that we have by Christ is this that its a free and gracious Redemption All the rounds in this Ladder of Redemption are made up of free rich and soveraign grace though our Redemption cost Christ dear as has been before hinted yet as to us it is most free Eph. 1. 7. In whom we have redemption through his bl●od the forgiveness of sins according 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this word properly signi●ies a deliverance which is brought to pass by ●●●ing of a ran●●● and price 〈◊〉 Mat. 20. 28. 1 ●●r 6. 20. 1 〈◊〉 1. 18. to the riches of his grace that is according to his exceeding great and abundant grace Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus our Redemption is from the free love and favour of God It was free grace that put God the father upon finding out a way for the redemption of lost sinners It was free Grace that put God upon providing of such a surety as should undertake the work of Redemption as should carry on the work of Redemption and as should accomplish and compleat the work of Redemption And it was free grace that moved God the father to accept of what Christ did and suffered in order to the bringing about of our Redemption and it is free Grace that moves God to make an application of this Redemption to the souls of his people Ah poor souls the Lord looks not neither Isa 52. 3. for money nor moneys worth from you towards the purchase of your Redemption and therefore always look upon your Redemption as the mere fruit of rich Grace But The Third excellent Property of that Redemption that we have by Jesus Christ is this it is a full and plenteous Redemption Psal 130. 7. Let Israel hope in the Lord for with the Lord there is mercy and with him is plenteous redemption Christ redeems us from all sin and from all Tit. 2. 14. Hos 13. 14. the consequences of sin he redeems from death and from the power of the grave he redeems us from the Rom. 7. 6. Gal. 4. 5. Gal. 3. 13. Law and from the malediction of the Law Christ took that off he was made a curse for all that believe on him he did not only stand in the room of eminent believers but he stood in the room of all believers and endured the wrath of God to the uttermost for every one that believeth on him Every believer is freed from a cursed estate by the least faith every degree of true faith makes the condition to be a state of life and passeth us from death and condemnation There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus And Christ redeems us from this present Rom. 8. 1. Gal. 1. 4. Rev. 14. 3 4. 1 Thes 1. 10. Luk. 1. 71 74. evil world and from the earth and from among men and from wrath to come and from the hands of all our enemies Jesus Christ hath gone thorough-stitch with the work of our Redemption Christ does not his work by halves all his works are perfect there is no defect or flaw in them at all Christ does not redeem us from some of our sins and leave us to grapple with the rest he doth not work out some part of our Redemption and leave us to work out the rest he doth not bear the heat and burden of divine wrath in part and leave us to wrestle with other parts of divine wrath O! no Christ makes most complete work of it he redeems us from all our iniquities he delivers us out of the hands of all our enemies he pays Heb. 7. 25. all debts he cuts all scores he delivers from all wrath he takes off the whole curse he saves to the uttermost and will settle us in a state of full and perfect freedom when grace shall be turned into glory in heaven our Redemption shall be entire and and perfect The Fourth excellent Property of that Redemption that we have by Jesus Christ is this It is an eternal a permanent a lasting yea an everlasting Redemption Heb. 9. 12. Neither by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place having obtained e●ernal redemption for us Redemption is in general Exod. 6. 6. a freeing one out of thraldom Now this is done three ways 1. By interceding and pacifying wrath Thus the Prophet Oded procured Redemption for the Captives 2 Chron. 28. 9 c. of Judah by his intercession 2. By force and might Thus Abraham redeemed his brother Lot and the people that Gen. 14. 16. were captives with him by overcoming their enemies 3. By ransom or paying a price Thus an Hebrew that Levit. 25. 48 49. was sold a slave to a stranger might be redeemed by one of his brethren the last of these is most agreeable to the notation of the several words which in the three learned languages do signify to redeem though the last be especially intended In that mention is made of a price namely Christ's blood yet the other two are not altogether exempted for Christ hath all those three ways redeemed his people This will more clearly appear if we duly weigh the distinct kinds of bondage in which we Ma● 6. 12. Eph. 2 3. Heb. 2. 143 5. were by reason of sin 1. We were debtors to Divine Justice 2. We were children of wrath 3. We were slaves to Satan 1. As debtors Christ hath paid a ransom for us 2. As children of wrath Christ makes intercession for us 3. But though Divine

creature by vertue of the Covenant and according to the Covenant By the blood of the Covenant Luk 16. 24 25. believers are delivered from the infernal pit where there is not so much water as might cool Dives his tongue and by the blood of the Covenant they are delivered from those deaths and dangers that do surround 2 Cor. 1. 8 9 10. them When sincere Christians fall into desperate distresses and most deadly dangers yet they are prisoners of hope and may look for deliverance by the blood of the Covenant this does sufficiently evince a Covenant betwixt God and his people But Fifthly God has threatned severely to avenge and punish the quarrel of his Covenant Levit. 26. 25. And I Deut. 29. 20 21 24 25. cap. 31. 20 21. J●s● 7. 11 12 15. cap. 23. 15 16. Ju●● ● 20. 2 King 18 9 10 11 12. will bring a sword upon you that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant or which shall avenge the vengeance of the Covenant c. consult the Scriptures in the m●●ge●t Breach of Covenant betwixt God and man breaks the peace and breeds a quarrel betwixt them in which he will take vengeance of man's revolt except there be repentance on man's side and pardoning grace on his For breach of Covenant Jerusalem is long since laid waste and the seven golden candlesticks broken in pieces and many others this day lie a bleeding in the Nations who have made no more of breaking Covenant with the great God than if therein they had to do with poor mortals with dust and ashes like themselves Now how can there be such a sin as breach of Covenant for which God will be avenged if there were no Covenant betwixt God and his people But Sixthly The seals of the Covenant are given to God's people Now to those to whom the seals of the Covenant I● reason the Cove●ant and the S●●ls must go together Were it no● a fond and foolish thing in any man to make a Covenant with ●●e and to gi●e the seals to ano 〈…〉 In Equity and Justice the Co●enant and Seals must go to the same persons are given with them is the Covenant mad● for the seals of the Covenant and the Covenant go to the same persons But the seals of the Covenant are given to believers Abraham receives the sign of circumcision a seal of the righteousness of faith Rom. 4. 11. Ergo the Covenant is made with believers Circumcision is a sign in regard of the thing signified and a seal in regard of the Covenant made betwixt God and man Seal is a borrowed word taken from Kings and Princes who add their broad seal or privy seal to ratifie and confirm the Leagues Edicts Grants Covenants Charters that are made with their Subjects or Confederates God had made a Covenant with Abraham and by circumcision signs and seals up that Covenant But Seventhly The people of God are said sometimes to keep Covenant with God Psal 25. 10. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies Mercies flowing in upon us through the Covenant are of all mercies the most soul-satisfying soul-refreshing soul cheering mercies yea they are the very cream of mercy Oh how well is it with that Saint that can look upon every mercy as a present sent him from heaven by vertue of the Covenant Oh this sweetens every drop and sip and crust and crum of mercy that a Christian enjoys that all flows in upon him through the Covenant The promise last cited is a very sweet choice precious promise a promise more worth than all the riches of the Indies Mark All the paths of the Lord to his people they are not only mercy but they are mercy and truth that is they are sure mercies that stream in upon them through the Covenant Solomon's dinner Prov. 15. 17. D●● 1. 12. John 6. 9. of green herbs Daniel's pulse Barley loaves and a sew fishes swimming in upon a Christian through the New Covenant are far better greater and sweeter mercies than all those great things are that flow in upon the great men of the world through that general providence that feeds the birds of the air and the beasts of the field Psal 44. 17. Yet have we not forgotten thee neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant that is We have kept Covenant with thee by endeavouring to the uttermost of our power to keep off from the breach of thy Covenant and to live up to the duties of thy Covenant suitable to that of the Prophet Micah We will walk in the name of the Lord our Mi●ha 4. 5. God for ever and ever Persons in Covenant with God will not only take a turn or two in his ways as Temporaries and Hypocrites do who are hot at hand but soon tire and give in but they will hold on in a course of holiness Rev 14. 4. and not fail to follow the Lamb withersoever he Cap. 17. 14. goes Psal 103. 17. The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting vers 18. To such as keep his Covenant c. All sincere Christians they keep Covenant with God 1. In respect of their cordial desires to keep Covenant ●●em 1. ult 〈…〉 119. 133. Psal 39. 1 2. with God 2. In respect of their habitual purposes and resolutions to keep Covenant with God 3. In respect of their habitual and constant endeavours to keep Covenant with God This is an Evangelical and incompleat keeping Covenant with God which in Christ God owns and accepts and is as well pleased with it as he was with Adam's keeping of Covenant with him before his fall From what has been said we may thus argue Those that keep Covenant with God those are in Covenant with God those have made a Covenant with God But all sincer● Christians they do keep Covenant with God Ergo But Eighthly a●d lastly The Lord hath by many choice precious and pathetical promises engaged himself to make 2 Pet. 1. 4. good that blessed Covenant that he has made with his people yea with his choice and chosen ones take a few instances If ye hearken to these judgments saith God to Deut. 7. 12. Israel and keep and do them The Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto Under the name Ju●gments th● Commandments and Statutes of God are contained thy fathers This blessed Covenant is grounded upon God's free grace and therefore in recompencing their obedience God hath a respect to his own mercy and not to their merits So Judg. 2. 1. I made you to go up out of Egypt and have brought you into the land which I sware unto your fathers and I said I will never break my covenant with you God is a God of mercy and his Covenant with his people is a Covenant of mercy and therefore he will be sure to keep touch with

Christ was manifested to be a true man he had a body like ours a body subject to manifold infirmities yea to death it self That body which Christ had is said to be prepared by God the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is translated prepared is a Metaphor from Mechanicks who do artificially fit one part of their work to another and so finish the whole God fitted his son's body to be joyned with the Deity and to be an expiatory sacrifice for sin The word prepared implies that God the father ordained formed and made fit and able Christ's humane nature to undergo suffer and fulfil that for which he was sent into the world God the father is here said to have prepared Christ a body because Christ having received of his father the humane nature out of the flesh and blood of the Virgin Mary by the power of the Mat. 1. 20. Luk 1. 31. 35. Holy Ghost here gives up the same unto the service of his father to do to suffer to die that he might be a sacrifice of expiation for our sins As for the words of the Psalmist Psal 40. 6. Mine ear hast thou opened Heb. digged open It is a proverbial manner of speech whereby there is implyed the qualifying or fitting a man unto obedience in service the ear or the opening of the ear Isa 50 5. Job 3. 16. being an emblem or symbol or a Metaphorical sign of obedience Now St. Paul following the translation of the Septuagint and being directed by the spirit of God expounds this of God's sanctifying and fitting a body unto Christ wherein hs was obedient even unto the shameful death of the Cross These words thou hast bored through mine ears do import that Christ now becoming man gives up himself to be a willing servant of his father to obey him unto the death of the cross And it is a similitude taken from the servants of the Hebrews who after that they had served their masters six years would not depart out of their master's service the seventh year but abide in it continually until death for a testimony whereof their ear was bored thorow on the posts of the door as may be seen Exod. 21. 6. It is therefore as much as if he should say thou hast given me a body that is willing and ready in thy service even unto death But to conclude this head the Apostle speaking of disanulling the sacrifice of the Law he uses this word body to set out a sacrifice which should come in stead of the legal sacrifices to effect that which the legal sacrifices could not effect But Fourthly Observe that Christ our Mediator freely and readily offers himself to be our pledg and surety Then said I lo I come to wit as surety to pay the ransome and to do thy will O God Every word carrieth a special emphasis as 1. The time Then even so soon as he perceived that his father had prepared his body for such an end then without delay this speed implyeth forwardness and readiness he would lose no opportunity 2. His profession in this word said I he did not closely secretly timorously as being ashamed thereof but he maketh profession before-hand 3. This note of observation Lo this is a kind of calling Angels and men to witness and a desire that all might know his inward intention and the disposition of his heart wherein was as great a willingness as any could have to any thing 4. An offering of himself without any enforcement or compulsion this he manifesteth in this word I come 5. That very instant set out in the present tense I come he puts it not off to a future and uncertain time but even in that moment he saith I come 6. The first person twice expressed thus I said I come he sendeth not another person nor substituteth any in his room but he even he himself in his own person cometh All which do abundantly evidence Christ's singular readiness and willingness as our surety to do his father's will though it were by suffering and by being made a sacrifice for our sins God's will was the rule of Christ's active and passive obedience Jesus Christ our only Mediatour and surety by free and ready obedience and death did make a proper real and full satisfaction to God's justice for the sins of all the Elect. Christ hath by his death and blood as an invaluable price of our redemption made sure the favour of God the pardon of our sins and the salvation of our souls Christ hath freed his chosen from all temporal spiritual and eternal punishments properly so called so that now the mercy of God may embrace the sinner without the least of wrong to his truth or justice But Fifthly Observe that Jesus Christ our surety does not only agree with his father about the price that he was to lay down for our redemption but also agrees with his father about the persons that were to be redeemed and their sanctification Heb. 10. 10. By the which will that is by the execution of which will by the obedience of Christ to his heavenly father we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all Jesus Christ agrees with the father that all those shall be sanctified for whom he has suffered and satisfied The vertue efficacy and benefit of that which ariseth from the aforesaid will of the father and of the son is expressed under this word sanctified To pass by the notation and divers acceptations of this word sanctified let it suffice to tell you It is not here to be taken as distinguished from justification or glorification as it is else where taken but 1 Cor. 1. 30. cap. 6. 11. so as comprising under it all the benefits of Christ's sacrifice In this general and large extent it is sometimes Heb. 10. 14. cap. 2. 11. A● 26. 18. taken only this word sanctified here gives us to understand that perfection consisteth especially in holiness for he expresseth the perfection of Christ's sacrifice under the word sanctified which implyeth a making holy this Eccles 7. 31. was that special part of perfection wherein man was made at first and whereunto the Apostle alludeth where Eph. 4. 2● he exhorteth To put on that new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness for this end Christ gave himself even unto death for his Church that he might sanctifie it The principal thing under this Eph. 5. 25. word sanctified in this place is that Christ's sacrifice maketh perfect in this respect Christ's sacrifice is here opposed to the legal sacrifices which could not make perfect So that Christ's sacrifice was offered up to do that which they could not do for this end was Christ's sacrifice surrogated in the room of the legal sacrifices now this surrogation had been in vain if Christ's sacrifice had not made us perfect if the dignity of his person that was offered up and his

compleat satisfaction that Jesus Christ has given to God's enraged Justice I have in part discovered already and shall say more to it before I close up the Covenant of Redemption But The third Proposition is this The business transacted The Third Propo●tion between those two great and glorious persons God the father whose greatness is unsearchable and Jesus Christ ●sal 145. 3. Rev. 1. 5. who is the prince of the kings of the earth was the redemption and salvation of the Elect our everlasting blessedness was now fresh in their eyes and warm upon their Luk. 15. 30. hearts how lost man might be found and how fallen man might be restored and how miserable man might be made happy how slaves might be made sons and how Eph. 2. 12. 17. enemies might be made friends and how those that were afar off might be made nigh without the least prejudice to the honour holiness justice wisdom and truth of God was the grand business the thing of things that lay before them Upon the account of the Covenant compact and agreement that was between the father and the son it is that Christ is called the second Adam for 1 Cor. 1● ●5 as with the first Adam God plighted a Covenant concerning him and his posterity so also he did indent with Jesus Christ concerning that eternal Redemption that he was Heb. 9. 12. to obtain and secure for his seed For the clearing of this let us a little consider of the excellent properties of that Redemption that we have by Jesus Christ First 'T is a great Redemption the work of Redemption was a great work the greatness of the person employed in this work speaks out the work to be a great work This was a work too high too hard too great for all the Angels in heaven and all the men on earth to undertake none but that Jesus who is mighty to save was ever able to bring about the Redemption of man Hence Christ is called the deliverer And their redeemer is mighty Prov 23. 11. Isa 24. 6. And his redeemer the Lord of hosts Isa 47. 4. As for our redeemer the Lord of hosts is his name Isa 49. 26. And thy redeemer the mighty one of Jacob Jer. 50. 34. Their redeemer is strong the Lord of hosts is his name Again the great and invaluable price that was paid down for our Redemption speaks it out to be a great Redemption the price that we are bought with 〈◊〉 6. 19 20. cap. 7. 23. is a price beyond all compute 2 Pet. 1. 18 19. For as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation But with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot Christ was a Lamb 1. for harmlesness 2. for patience and silence in afflictions 3. for meekness Isa 32. 7. 〈◊〉 11. 19. and humility 4. for sacrifice this Lamb was without blemish that is free from actual sin and without spot 〈◊〉 that is free from original sin That the most absolute and perfect purity of Christ prefigured in the Lambs of the Old Testament that were to be sacrificed might be better expressed the Apostle calls him a lamb without Eph. 5. 27. Neither God nor Christ could lay down a ●reat●● price All things in heaven an● earth are 〈◊〉 be compared 1 this blood to this pri●e blemish and without spot The price that this Lamb without a spot has laid down is sufficient to pay all our debts 't is a price beyond all compute All the Silver Gold Pearl Jewels in the world are of no value in respect of this price a price in it self infinite and of infinite value Among the Romans the goods and estates which men had gotten in the Wars with hazard of their lives were called peculium castrense or a Field-purchase O! how well then may the Elect be called Christ's peculium castrense his purchase gotten not only by the jeopardy of his life but with the loss of his life and blood Again J●● 10 11 15. 17 18. 〈…〉 20. 28. if you compare the work of Redemption with other great works you must necessarily conclude that the work of Redemption is a great work The making of the world Ge● 1. 3 6 9 11 14 20 24. was a great work of God but yet that did but cost him a word of his mouth a let it be he spake the word and it was done he said let there be light and there was light c. but the work of Redemption cost Christ's dearest blood Much matter of admiration doth the work of Redemption afford us The work of Creation is many ways admirable yet not to be compared with the work of Redemption wherein the power wisdom justice mercy and other divine attributes of God do much more shine forth and wherein the redeemed reap much more good than Adam did by his creation which will evidently appear by observing these particular differences First In the Creation God brought something out of nothig but in the work of Redemption out of one contrary he brought another out of death he brought life This was a work of far greater power wisdom mercy death must first be destroyed and then life brought forth Secondly In Creation there was but a word and thereupon the work followed in Redemption there was doing and dying The work of Redemption could be brought about by none but God God must come down from heaven God must be made man God must be made sin God must be made a cu●se 2 Cor. 5. 21. Gal. 3. 13. Thirdly In the Creation God arrayed himself with Majesty power and other like properties fit for a great work in the work of Redemption he put on weakness he assumed a nature subject to infirmities and the infirmities of that nature he did as David did when he fought against Goliah he put off all armour and took his staff in his hand and drew near to the Philistine 1 Sam. 17. 39 40. Fourthly In the work of Creation there was nothing to withstand God to make opposition against God but in the work of Redemption there was justice against mercy wrath against pity death and he that had the power of death was vanquished Heb. 2 14 15. Colos 2. 14. 15. Fifthly By Creation man was made after God's image like him Gen. 1. 26 27. by Redemption man was made a member of the same mystical body whereof Christ is the head Eph. 1. 22 23. Sixthly By Creation man received a natural being by Redemption a spiritual Seventhly By Creation man received a possibility to stand by Redemption a certainty of standing and impossibility of falling Joh. 10. 28 29 30 31. 1 Pet. 1. 5. Jer. 33. 40 41. Eightly By Creation man was placed in an earthly Paradise but by Redemption he is advanced to an heavenly Paradise Thus you see how the work of Redemption transcends the