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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

this deliverance of the Creature that our Apostle speaks of shall not be by a reduction into nothing but by an alteration into a better estate But I must hasten to a close Vers 12. And I saw the dead small and great stand before God The Judge before whom all do appear is our dear Lord Jesus who hath the keys of hell and death in Rev. 1. 18. Act. 17. 30 31. his hands and who is designed and appointed by God the Father to be the Judge of quick and dead he hath Authority and a Commission under his Father's hand to sit and act as Judge Here you see that John calleth the Judge absolutely God but Christ is the Judge therefore Christ is God absolutely and he will appear to be God in our nature in that great day The Parties judged who stand before the Throne are 1. Generally the dead all who had died from Adam to the last day he calls them the dead after the common Law of Nature but then raised from death to life by the Eph 2. 5. Colos 2. 13. power of God he speaks not of men dead in sins and trespasses but of such as died corporally and now were raised up to judgment But shall not the living then be judged Oh yes For we must all appear before the Judgment-seat 2 Cor. 5. 10. Rom. 149 10. of Christ That he may be Judge of the quick and the dead and be Lord both of the dead and the living Under this phrase the dead are comprehended all those that then shall be found alive By the dead we are to understand the living also by an Argument from the lesser If the dead shall appear before the Judgment-seat how much more the living But the dead alone are named either because the number of the dead from Adam to the last day shall be far greater than those that shall be found alive on earth in that day or because those that remain alive shall be accounted as dead because they shall be 1 Cor. 15. 52. changed in the twinkling of an eye Secondly he describes them from their age and condition for the words may be understood of both Great and small which takes in all sorts of men Tyrants Emperours Kings Princes Dukes Lords c. as well as Subjects Vassals Slaves Beggars rich and poor strong and weak bond and free old and young all and every one without exception are to be judged for the Judgment shall be universal no man shall be so great as to escape the same nor none so small as to be excluded but every one shall have justice done him without respect of persons as that great Apostle Paul tells us We must all appear before the Judgment-seat 2 Cor. 5. 10. of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad I am no admirer of the School-men's notion who suppose that all shall be raised about the age of Lum lib dist 44 33. which was Christ's Age but do judge that that perfection which consisteth in the conforming them to Christ's glorious body is of another kind than to respect either age stature or the like Stand before God that is brought to Judgment the Joh. 3. 18. guilty standing ready to be condemned and the Saints standing ready in Christ's presence to be absolved and pronounced blessed And the books were opened Christ the Judge being set on his Throne and having all the world before him the books are opened 1. In the general the books are said to be open 2. Here is a special book for the Elect The book of life was opened 3. Here you have sentence passed and pronounced according to what was written in these books and according to their works And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works Here the Judicial Process is noted by imitation of Humane Courts in which the whole Process is wont to be drawn up and laid before the Judge from whence the Judge determineth for or against the person according to the Acts and Proofs that lie open before him The Equity Justice and Righteousness of Christ the Judge that sits on his white Throne is set forth by a Metaphor taken from Humane Courts where the Judge pronounceth sentence according to the written Law and the Acts and Proofs agreeing thereunto All things are Heb. 4. 13. Rev. 1. 14. naked and bare before him whose eyes are as a flame of fire But to shew that the Judgment shall be as accurate and particular in the trial and just and righteous in the close as if all were registred and put on Record nothing shall escape or be mistaken in its circumstances but all things shall be so cleared and issued beyond all doubts and disputes as if an exact Registre of them had been kept and published in all which there is a plain allusion unto the words of Daniel speaking thus of this Judgment The Dan. 7. 10. Judgment was set and the books were opened We find six several books mentioned in the Scripture First The Book of Nature that is mentioned by David Psal 139. 16. Thine eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy book all my members were written which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them 'T is a Metaphor from curious work men that do all by the The world saith Clemens Alexandrious is De● Scriptura the first Bible that God made for the instruction of Man Book or by a Model set before them that nothing may be deficient or done amiss Had God left out an eye in his common place Book saith one thou hadst wanted it The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy work The Psalmist looks upon that great Volume of heaven and earth and there reads in Capital letters the Prints and Characters of God's glory This Book saith one was imprinted at the New Jerusalem by the finger of Jehovah and is not to be sold but to be seen at the sign of Glory of every one that lifts up his eyes to heaven In this Book of nature which is made up of three great leaves Heaven Earth and Sea God hath made himself visible yea legible even his eternal power and Godhead So that all men are left without Rom. 1. 20. excuse Out of this Book the poor blind Gentiles might have learned many choice lessons as First that they had a maker Secondly That this Maker being before the things made is eternal without beginning or ending Thirdly That he must needs be Almighty which made all things out of nothing and sustained such a Mass of creatures Fourthly The order variety and distinction of creatures declare his marvellous Wisdom Fifthly In this Book they might run and read the great goodness and the admirable kindness of God to the sons of men in making

immaterial doth not depend upon the body in its working the rich and rare endowments and the noble operations of the soul speak out the excellency of the soul The soul saith one hath Aristotle a nature distinct from the body it moves and operates of it self though the body be dead and hath no dependence upon or coexistence with the body The soul hath an intrinsecal principle of life and motion though it be separate from the body And doth not the immortality of the soul speak out the excellency of the soul against that dangerous notion of the souls mortality Consult the Scriptures in the margin and seriously and Luke 23. 43. 1 Thess 4. ult Phil. 1. 23. Acts 7. 59. frequently think of this one argument among a multitude of arguments that might be produced to prove the immortality of the soul That which is not capable of killing is not capable of dying but the soul is not capable of killing ergo Our Lord Jesus proves the minor proposition that it is not capable of killing Fear not Luke 12. 4. them them that kill the body and after that have no more that they can do Therefore the soul not being capable of killing is not in a possibility of dying the essence of the soul is Metaphysical it hath a beginning but no end it is Eternal à parte post it runs parallel with Eternity the soul doth not wax old it lives for ever which we cannot affirm of any sublunary created glory To conclude this first word of counsel what Job saith of wisdom I may fitly apply to the soul Man knows not the price thereof Job 28. 13 16 17. it cannot be valued with the Gold of Ophir with the precious Onyx or the Saphir the Gold and Chrystal cannot equal it and the exchange of it shall not be for Jewels of sine Gold O my Friends it is the greatest wisdom policy equity and Justice to provide for your precious souls to secure your precious souls for they are Jewels of more worth than ten thousand worlds all the honours riches greatness and glory of this world are but chips toyes and pibbles to these glorious pearls But The second word of counsel is this as you would be safe here and saved in the great day of the Lord as Act● 2. 20. ●● 22. 21. ● 〈…〉 poth 1. 15. Jo● 13. 15. 2 Cor. 2. 11. you would be happy here and blessed hereafter take up in nothing below a gracious acquaintance with Christ a choice acceptation of Christ a holy relyance upon Christ a full resignation of your selves to Christ and a real and glorious union with Christ If you do you are lost and undone in both worlds First Some take up in a name to live when they are dead dead in trespasses and sins dead God-wards and Revel 3 1. Ephes 2. 1. dead Christ-wards and dead Heaven-wards and dead holyness-wards The Sadducees derive their name from Zeduchim or Zadducaeus a just man But the worst Men saith the Historian got the best names The Alcoran of the Turks hath its name from brightness Al in the Arabick being as much as Kazan in the Hebrew to shine or cast forth in brightness when it is full of darkness and fraught with falshoods It will be but a poor comfort to any for the world to commend them as gracious if God condemn them as graceless for the world to commend them as pious if God condemn them as impious for the world to commend them as sincere if God condemn them as hypocrites But Secondly Some take up in a form Godliness when 2 Timoth. 3. 5. they are strangers to the power when they deny yea when they oppose and persecute the power such Monsters this Age has abounded with but their seeming Acts 13. 45 50 goodness is but a Religious cheat Thirdly There are some that take up in their Religious Matth. 9. 22. Luke 18. 12. Cap. 13. 26. Matth. 6. cap. 23. Luke 36. 15. Ezeck 33. 31 32. duties and services in their praying fasting prophesying hearing receiving they make a God a Christ a Saviour of their own duties services this was the undoing and damning sin of the Scribes and Pharisees and is the undoing and damning sin of many thousands in our dayes Fourthly There are many that take up in their common gifts and parts in a gift of knowledge and in a gift Math. ● 22. Rom. 2. 17. 21. 1 Cor. 12. ●eb 6. 4●5 of teaching and in a gift of knowledge and in a gift of teaching and in a gift of utterance and in a gift of memory and in a gift of prayer and this proves ruinous and destructive to them Fifthly There are many that take up in their riches Prov. 10. 15. Psalm 73. 19. Matth. 20. 26. Divi●●bus i 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qui● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rich mens wealth proves an hinderance to their happiness Eccles 5. 13. James 5. 1 2. prosperity and worldly grandure and glory Prov. 18. 11. The rich mans wealth is his strong City it is hard to have wealth and not trust to it Mat. 19. 24. Wealth was never true to those that trusted it There is an utter uncertainty in riches 1 Timoth. 6. 17. A non entity Prov. 23. 5 6. An impotency to help in an evil day Zephan 1. 18. An impossibility to stretch to Eternity unless it be to destroy the owner for ever There is nothing more clear in Scripture and History than that riches prosperity and worldy glory hath been commonly their portion who never have had a God for their portion Luke 16. 25. Ric●es are called thi●k clay Hal. 2. 6. which will sooner break the back than lighten the heart It was an excellent saying of Lewis of Bavaria Emperour of Germany Hujusmodi comparandae sunt opes quae cum naufragio simul enatent Such goods are worth getting and owning as will not sink or wash away if a ship-wrack happen Solus sapiens dives Only the Wise man is the rich man saith the Philosopher Another saith Divitiae Austin corporales paupertatis plenae sunt That earthly riches are full of poverty they cannot enrich the soul for oftentimes under silken Apparel there is a thred-bare soul He that is rich in conscience sleeps more soundly than he that is richly clothed in purple No man is rich which cannot carry hence that which Ambros lib. 8. Ep. 10. he hath that which we must leave behind us is not ours but some others The shortest cut to riches is by their contempt it is Seneca great riches not to desire riches and he hath most that covets least If there were any happiness in riches the Gods would not want them saith the same Author When one was a commending the riches and wealth of Merchants I do not love that wealth said a poor Heathen which hangs upon ropes for if they break the ship miscarrieth and then where is the Merchants riches If I had an