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A29671	The sacred and most mysterious history of mans redemption wherein is set forth the gracious administration of Gods covenant with man-kind, at all times, from the beginning of the world unto the end : historically digested into three books : the first setteth down the history from Adam to the blessed incarnation of Christ, the second continueth it to the end of the fourth year after his baptisme ..., the third, from thence till his glorious coming to judgement / by Matthew Brookes ...	Brookes, Matthew, fl. 1626-1657.	1657 (1657)	Wing B4918; ESTC R11708	321,484	292

in spirit filled with wisdom and the grace of God was upon him S. Luc. 2.40 41. Now his parents went to Hierusalem every yeare at the feast of the Passeover And when he was twelve yeares old they went up to Hierusalem after the custome of the feast And when they had fulfilled the dayes 42 as they returned the childe Jesus tarried behind in Hierusalem and Joseph and his mother knew not of it 43 But they supposing him to have been in the company went a dayes journey and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance And when they found him not 44 they turned back againe to Hierusalem seeking him And it came to pass that after three days they found him in the Temple 45 sitting in the midst of the Doctors both hearing them and asking them questions And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers 46 47 And when they saw him they were amazed and his mother said unto him Sonne why hast thou thus dealt with us Behold thy Father and I 48 have sought thee sorrowing And he said unto them How is it that ye sought me wist ye not that I must be about my Fathers business And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them And he went downe with them 49 50 51 52 and came to Nazareth and was subject unto them But his mother kept all these sayings in her heart And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favour with God and man Thus abode he at Nazareth with his parents for the space of eighteen yeares almost which was from the time of their return from Hierusalem after that he had disputed with the Doctors he being then compleatly twelve years old and going on in the thirteenth year to the thirtieth yeare of his age current For during all that time no further mention is made of him then hath been made before Then began that acceptable yeare of the Lord The acceptable year of the Lord begun prophesied by the Prophet Isaiah to be proclaimed and preached unto all the world by Christ the Fathers eternall word The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath annointed me to preach good tydings unto the meeke Isa 61.1 2. he hath sent me to binde up the broken hearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound To proclaim the acceptable yeare of the Lord. Which prophecie is repeated by the Evangelist in these words The spirit of the Lord is upon me S. Luc. 4.18 19. because he hath annointed me to preach the Gospel to the poore he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind to set at liberty them that are bruised To preach the acceptable yeare of the Lord. This year was annus placabilis Domino a year placable to the Lord a year in which the Lord was easily pleased with all those things which were performed by Christ for the redemption of all mankind This year was Annus Domini acceptus the accepted year of the Lord a year in which the Lord was pleased to accept the merits of his son a full and sufficient price satisfaction and redemption for the sins of the whole world There were other types of this year which the law had but this year was specially figured by the great Jubile of the fiftieth yeare That year was proclaimed by blowing up of trumpets of rammes hornes this year was proclaimed by the Ram himselfe figured by that Ram which Abraham offered up in stead of Isaac his son and by all those Rams which were offered up in sacrifices according to the Law That year brought with it a temporall rest unto the land of Canaan This year brought with it a spirituall rest unto the whole world That year proclaimed liberty and in that year all servants went forth perpetually free from corporall bondage and every one that had sold his possession did in that year return unto it again Levit. 25. This year proclaimed liberty and in this year all that were servants to sin and Sathan had a perpetuall liberty obtained and an eternal redemption so that now there is no let but that all the sons of Adam who shall by a lively faith and true repentance accept the liberty of this year may return again to that holy and heavenly inheritance which Adam lost by reason of sinne That year took away the distinction of master and servant This year took away all distinctions not in respect of that relation which is between man and man in the world but in respect of that relation which is betwixt Christ and his Church For like as the Redeemer would buy them all with the same price and would shed no more nor no other blood for the Jew then for the Gentile for the bond then for the free for the male then for the female Even so the freedom of this year brought to pass that they should be all saved by the same grace justified by the same faith have the same word the same sacraments the same worship an equall interest in Christ according to that of St. Paul Gal. 3.28 There is neither Jew nor Greeke there is neither bond nor free there is neither male nor female for ye are all one in Christ Jesus And in another place Col. 3.11 There is neither Greeke nor Jew circumcision nor uncircumcision Barbarian Scythian bond nor free but Christ is all and in all Weeks in the scriptures are not alwaies weeks of dayes nor years are not alwaies years of months Though that acceptable yeare is properly said to begin then yet must we not think to terminate it in twelve months It is saith that ancient Father Irenaeus the time in which they are called of him that do believe in him that is all the time from his comming to the consummation in which he doth acquire as fruits those that are saved lib. 2. cap. 38. It is indeed and according to St. Paul the whole time of Grace Behold now is the accepted time 2 Cor. 6.2 behold now is the day of salvation in the largest sense But strictly and properly to his Ascention into heaven in which year he compleated all those things which God accepted at his hands to be done for the redemption of mankind by his Baptisme by his preaching by his miracles by his passion death buriall descent into hell as also by his resurrection and ascension We have therefore now to see how he did administer the covenant during that year It was the fifteenth year of the raign of Tiberius Caesar Pontius Pilate being then governour of Judea and Herod being Tetrarch of Galilee c. as is noted by the Evangelist S. Luc. 3.1 which was the thir●ieth year of his age current Then began the Gospel of Christ to be published for then John the son of Zacharias

a Sacrament the first sacrament of the new Testament for the mysticall washing away of sin I shall not doubt but that he did pray that those who are baptized might in that Sacrament receive the holy Ghost Therefore as he was praying the holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him That Dove was not the holy Ghost himself it was but a visible testification of the speciall presence of the holy Ghost But it descended to bear witness unto Christ and to his Baptisme a baptism not of water onely as St. Johns was but of water and of the holy Ghost It descended upon him S. Joh. 1.33 to the end that St John himself might know him to be that Baptizer And it descended upon him as he was praying to the end that his Church may know that his prayers were heard and that by his prayers he obtained that in his baptism we may receive the holy Ghost as St. Augustine saith Water exhibiting the Sacrament of grace without and the spirit working the benefit of grace within loosing the bond of sin reconciling the good of nature doe regenerate a man in one Christ that was generated of one Adam ad Bonifac. Epist 23. I will not dispute what grace it is which is conferred in Baptisme it sufficeth me to know that it is the grace of regeneration whereby we are born again and do rise again with Christ unto newness of life Rom. 6.3 Gal. 3.27 and of justification whereby we put on Christ It sufficeth me to know that it is the grace of sanctification whereby those that are baptized are purged and cleansed and made holy to the Lord. And therefore Faelix sacramentum aquae nostrae saith Tertullian Eph. 6.23 A happy Sacrament of our water because the sins of our pristine blindness being washt away we are made free to everlasting life De Bapt. cap. 1. And Jesus when he was baptized went up straight way out of the water and loe the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him S. Mat. 3.16 17. And loe a voice from heaven saying This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased Christ goeth into the wilderness to be tempted Having ended his prayers after that the holy Ghost had descended upon him visibly and his Father had proclaimed him his beloved son and therefore the Messiah from heaven wherein the sacred und undivided Trinity was most apparently manifested for the Father spake from heaven the son was there presently baptized the holy Ghost visibly descended a mystery not observed by the multitude he was directly and immediately led or driven by the Spirit into the wilderness that is to say he went thither by divine impulsion and by the motion and instinct of the holy Ghost that he might there be tempted of the Devill What wilderness that was it is not mentioned further then that St Mark saith that he was there 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the wild beasts And therefore in all probability that great wilderness the wilderness of Arabia Petraea through which he led the wandering Israelites by the space of forty years S. Mar. 1.13 Wilderness of Arabia Petraea a wilderness incult dry barren without inhabitants frequented by wild beasts A great and terrib●e wilderness saith Moses wherein were fiery Serpents and Scorpions and drought where there was no water Such there were none in Judea Deut. 8.15 or in all the land of Canaan though yet we read of many deserts there it is consequent therefore that this was that wilderness into which he went where he might be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the wild beasts For this wilderness extendeth it self from the borders of Egypt and the red sea to Jordan and to the place where St. Iohn baptized and from thence by the country of Trachonitis to the mountain of Libanus Itinerar Scrip. 432. And in this wilderness were the mountains Sinai and Horeb two tops of one and the same mountain where Moses and Elias types of Christ fasted by the space of forty dayes Into this wilderness he came and there fasted forty dayes and forty nights abstaining totally from all manner of sustenance and during all that time he did eat nothing as St. Luke saith By fasting he fitted and prepared himself to the conflict which he was to have with the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the tempter S. Luc. 4.2 S. Mat. 4.3 And by compleating the number of forty dayes he answered the Types Therefore went he fasting from Jordan in all likelihood towards mount Horeb one hundred thirty and six miles that so he might terminate his fast in that place where Moses and Elias the one being the law-giver the other the renewer of the law suppressed had terminated theirs The forty dayes being expired and he remaining in the same place the tempter the Devill the Prince of Devils who no doubt had tempted him before at severall times in his childhood and in his youth and in the wilderness for the whole forty dayes of his abode there as St. Mark S. Mar. 1.13 Luc. 4.2 and St. Luke do both of them expresly say came unto him thither to tempt him in a new manner and with stronger temptations then ever before the strongest of all that he could devise He saw that it was in vain for him to suggest sinfull thoughts or otherwise to attempt which way to creep into his heart by unlawfull desires by those waies he had alwaies received the repulse and fallen off with loss He must batter this fort with other manner of Engines if he mean to take it Wherefore he assumes a visible shape and tempeth him face to face comming unto him with the greater confidence in such a desolate place Christ did not provoke the Devill to this combat he sent him no challenge he was led or driven to it by the spirit when the Devill came he gave not the onset but the Devill assailed him and then he received him with divine resolution and fortitude threw him prostrate and trode upon him It was fore-seen and fore-told by the Prophet in the spirit of prophecie Thou shalt tread upon the Lyon and Adder Psal 91.13 the young Lyon and the Dragon shalt thou trample under feet That therefore he might trample under foot this Lyon this Adder this young Lyon this Dragon Then was Jesus led up of the spirit in●o the wilderness S. Mat. 4.1 to be tempted of the devill Never was the like combat never were the like combatants never such a brabium or reward fought for The combat was not corporall but spirituall The combatants the prince of Devils and chief captain of all the hellish army and the captain of the host of the Lord. The first temptation The prize or reward for which the combat was the precious souls of all mankind The Devill gives the onset for knowing him to be hungry he first