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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

father and the son and all your days to admire at the love of the father and the son who have from eternity by compact and agreement secured your souls and your everlasting concernments But The Sixth Proposition is this That God the father had the first and chief hand in this great work of saving sinners by vertue of this Covenant of Redemption wherein Heb. 2. 10. he and his son had agreed to bring many sons to glory Weak Christians many times have their thoughts and apprehensions more busied and taken up with the love of the son than with the love of the father but they must remember that in the great and glorious work of Redemption God the father had a great hand an eminent hand yea the first and chief hand God the father first laid the foundation stone of all our happiness and blessedness his head and heart was first taken up about that heaven-born project the salvation of sinners Isa 28. 16. Therefore thus saith the Lord God behold I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone a tried stone a precious corner stone a sure foundation Heb. I am he that foundeth a stone in Zion It is God the father that hath long since laid Christ as a sure foundation for all his people to build their hopes of happiness upon it is he that first laid Christ the true corner-stone Rom. 9. 33. 1 Pet. 2. 6. Isa 53. 10. whereby Zion is for ever secured against death hell and wrath Hence 't is said the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand that is God's Eternal Decree about the work of our Redemption and salvation shall be powerfully faithfully and compleatly executed by Jesus Christ who by his word and spirit shall communicate unto all his Elect the fruit of his death to life and salvation Jeb 23. 24. This is a full place against all Socini●ans who boldly allert that God removes the curse of the Law by a free and absolute pardon without satisfaction Grotius's Exposition on the place is but flat and dull When God saith I have 〈◊〉 a ransom we are to understand it of a real Ransom of full pay or satisfaction and not of a Ransom by favour and acceptation Again Deliver me from going down into the pit for I have found a ransom The Hebrew word signifies a price paid to redeem a man's life or liberty I have found a ransom or an atonement a cover for man's sin Angels and men could never have found a ransom but by my deep infinite and unsearchable wisdom saith God the father I have found a Ransom I have found out a way a means for the redeeming of mankind from going down to the infernal pit viz. the death and passion of my dearest son But where O blessed God didst thou find a Ransom not in Angels not in men not in Legal Sacrifices not in Gold or Silver not in tears humblings and meltings of my people but in my own bosom That Jesus that son of my love who has layen in my bosom from all Eternity Joh. 1. 18. he is that Ransom that by my own matchless wisdom and singular goodness I have found I have not called a Council to enquire where to find a Ransom that fallen man might be preserved from falling into the fatal pit of destruction but I have found a ransom in my own heart my own breasts my own bosom without advising or consulting with others I have found out a way how to save sinners with a salvo to my honour justice holiness and truth Had all the Angels in heaven from the first day of their creation to this very day sat in serious Council to invent contrive or find out a way a means whereby lost man might be secured against the curse of the Law hell condemnation and wrath to come and whereby he might have been made happy and blessed for ever and all this without the least wrong or prejudice to the justice and righteousness of God they could never have found out any way or means to have effected those great things Our Redemption by a Ransom is God's own invention and God's only invention The blessed Ransom which the Lord has found out for poor sinners is the blood of his own dearest son a ransom which never entred into the thoughts or hearts of Angels and men till God had reveiled it which is called the blood of the Covenant because thereby the Covenant is confirmed and all Covenant-mercies assured to us Joh. 3. 16. Again God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son Here is a sic without a sicut that sic so signifies the firstness of the father's love the freeness of the father's love 1 Joh. 3. 19. Hos 14. 4. and the vehemency of the father's love and the admirableness of the father's love and the matchlesness of the father's love O! what manner of love is this for God to give his son not his servant his begotten son not his adopted son his only son and not one son of many his only son by eternal generation and communication of the same Essence to be a Ransom and Mediator for sinners God the father loving lost man sent his son to suffer and to do the office of a Mediator that through his mediation he might communicate the effects of his love in a way agreeable to his justice for God loved the world and that antecedently to his giving Christ and as a cause of it The design the project of saving sinners was first contrived and laid by God the father therefore Christ says The son can do nothing of himself but what he sees the father do God the father sent his son and God the father sealed his son a commission to give life to lost sinners Him hath God the father sealed that is made his Commission authentical as men do their Deeds by their seals It is a Metaphor taken from them who ratifie their authority whom they send that is approve of them as it were by setting to their seal Christ is to be acknowledged to be he whom the father hath authorized and furnished to be the Saviour and Redeemer of lost sinners and the store-house from whence they are to expect all spiritual supplies Look as Kings give sealed Warrants and Commissions to their ministers of State who are sent 1 King 21 8. Est● 3. 12. cap. 8. 8. out or employed in great affairs So Christ is the father's great Ambassadour authorized and sent out by him to bring about the Redemption and Salvation of lost man And look as a seal represents in wax that which is engraven on it so the father hath communicated to him his divine essence and properties and stamped upon him all divine perfection for carrying on the work of Redemption And look as a seal annexed to a Commission is a publick evidence of the person's authority so Christ's endowments are visible marks whereby to know him and clear evidences that

James 1. 27. Phil. 3. 3. Joh. 4. 23 24. than purity of ordinances in opposition to all mixtures and corruptions whatsoever O sirs the great God stands upon nothing more in all the world than upon purity in his worship There is nothing that does Mat. 21. 12 13. Joh. 2. 15 16 17. so provoke and exasperate God against a people as mixtures in his worship and service and no wonder for mixtures in his worship are expresly-cross to his commands and pollutions in worship do sadly reflect upon the name of God the honour of God the truth of God and therefore his heart rises against them defilements in worship do sorely reflect upon the wisdom of Christ the faithfulness of Christ as if he were not faithful enough nor wise enough nor prudent nor Heb. 3. 4 5 6. understanding enough to order direct and guide his people in the matters of his worship but must be beholding to the wisdom prudence and care of man of vain man of sinful man of vile and unworthy man to compleat perfect and make up something that was wanting in his worship and service c. Now if a man suffers for owning pure worship and ordinances for standing for pure worship and ordinances and for being found in the practice of pure worship and ordinances his cause is good and he suffers as a Christian But Secondly When a man suffers for refusing or for not doing that which Christ condemns in his word then his cause is good and he suffers as a Christian for well doing Now in matters of Divine Worship God condemns all mixtures all inventions and devices of men The very spirit life and soul of the Second Commandment lies in these words Thou shalt not make to thy self any Graven Image God abhors that men should mix their Water with his Wine Levit. 10. 1 2. Ezek. 5. 11 12. cap. 23. 38 39. Jer 7. 29 30. Ezek. 8. 17 18. Rev. 2. 22 23. Deut. 4. 2. cap. 12 32. c. their Dross with his Gold their Chaff with his Wheat c. When men will venture to be so hardy and bold with God as to defile his Worship with their mixtures then God is fully resolved to be a swift and terrible witness against them as you may clearly see by comparing those notable places of Scripture together in the Margin there is no sin that does so greatly incense and provoke God to Jealousie and Wrath against a People as mixtures in his Worship God can bear with defilements any where rather than in Worship and Service God did bear much and bear long with the Jews b● when they had defiled and corrupted his worship then God gave them a Bill of Divorce and scattered them as Dung among the Nations Now when a man suffers for refusing to worship God with a mixt worship or with an invented or devised worship which Christ in his word doth every where condemn then his cause is good and he suffers as a Christian But Thirdly they that stoutly and resolutely assert that the blessed Luk. 10. 25 26. Scriptures are a sufficient rule to order guide and direct them in all matters of worship they have a good cause and they that suffer upon this account suffer as Christians for well doing Such vain men greatly detract from the sufficiency of the Scripture who mingle their own or other men's inventions with Ezek 43 8. Divine Institutions and who set their Posts by God's Posts and their Thresholds by God's Thresholds The Precepts and Traditions It is very remarkable that of old they were to be cut off that made any thing like the Institutions and Appointments of God Exod. 30. 32 33 37 38. And if some were so served would not the world be in more love peace and quietness than now it is of men with their Inventions and Additions to the worship of God are stiled Posts and Thresholds because the Authors of them do lean and stand so much upon them and set them in the way to hinder others from the enjoyment of Temple-privileges unless they will own and comply with them in their way and mode of worship but upon all such posts and thresholds that are of men's setting up in the worship of God you may run and read folly weakness rottenness and madness 't is only God's Posts God's Thresholds God's Institutions God's Appointments that have Wisdom and Holiness Beauty and Glory written upon them For men to set up their Posts by God's Posts and to give their Posts equal Honour and Authority with God's Posts this is a defiling of the Worship of God and a prophaning of the name of God which he will certainly avenge for he will admit no rival or Proprietary in the things of his Worship O sirs the blessed Adero plenitudin●● S●rip●u●arum Tertul. La 〈…〉 〈◊〉 fulness of the Scriptures Scriptures are sufficient to direct us fully in every thing that belongs to the Worship and Service of God so as that we need not depend upon the wisdom prudence care and authority of any men under heaven to direct us in matters of Worship 2 Tim. 3. 16 17. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness That the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good works The Scriptures are sufficient to inform the ignorant to confute the erronious to reform the vitious and to guide and direct support and comfort those that are gracious Here a Lamb may wade and an Elephant may swim here is milk for babes and meat for strong men here is comfort for the afflicted and succour for the tempted and ease for the troubled and light for the clouded and enlargement for the straitned c. Oh how full of light how full of life how full of love how full of sweetness how full of goodness how full of righteousness and holiness c. is every Chapter and every Verse in every Chapter yea and every Line in every Verse The Rabbins say that a mountain of matter hangs upon every word of Scripture yea upon every tittle of Scripture When the people of God have been in any outward or inward distresses or troubles God never sends them to the sh●p of men's Traditions and No Histories are comp●rable to the Histories o● the Scripture 1. For Antiquity 2. Rarity 3. Variety 4. Brevity 5. Perspicuity 6. Harmony 7. Verity all which should greatly encourage Christians to a serious perusal of them inventions but he still sends them to the blessed Scriptures Isa 8. 20. To the Law and to the Testimony if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no morning in them cap. 34. 1● Seek ye out of the book of the Lord and read ●● one of th●se shall 〈◊〉 none shall want her ma●e for my mouth it hath commanded and my spirit it hath

exalted above all creatures in heaven and earth as is most evident throughout the Scriptures Thirdly He tells you of the price which Jesus Christ should pay for the Redemption of his people agreed upon by paction viz. the humbling of himself to the death of the Cross as you may see in vers 14. As many were astonied at thee his visa●● was so marred more than any mans and his form more than the sons of men This is the speech of the father to Jesus Christ his visage was so marred that the Jews were ashamed to own him for their King and Messiah The astonishment here spoken of is such an astonishment as ariseth from the contemplation of some strange uncouth and ruful spectacle of desolation deformity and misery And no wonder if many were astonished at the sight of our Saviour's condition in regard of those base disgraceful and despightful usages that were offered and done to him in the time of his humiliation here on earth when his own followers were so amazed at the relation of them Mar. 10. 32 33 34 when they were foretold of them Oh sirs the words last cited are not so to be understood as if our blessed Saviour had in regard of his bodily person or presence been some strange deformed or mishapen creature but Isa 51. 3. in regard of his outward estate coming of mean and obscure parents living in a low despicable condition exposed to scorn and contempt and to much affliction through the whole course of his life and more especially yet in regard of what he was also in his personal appearance through the base and scornful usages that he sustained at the hands of his malicious and mischievous adversaries when they had gotten him into their power besides his watchings draggings to and fro from place to place buffettings scourgings carrying his cross and other base usages could not but much alter the state of his body and impair yea deface all the sightliness of it And yet all this he suffered to make good the compact and agreement that he had made with his father about the Redemption of his Elect. But The fifth Scripture is that 53. of Isaiah This Scripture The fifth proof among many others gives us very clear intimations of a Federal transaction between God the father and Jesus Christ in order to the recovery and everlasting happiness of poor sinners The glorious Gospel seems to be epitomised in this chapter the subject matter of it is the grievous sufferings and dolorous death of Christ and the happy and glorious issue thereof Of all the Prophets this Prophet Isaiah was the most Evangelical Prophet and Hierom calls him Isaiah the Evangelist of all the Prophecies of this Prophet that which you have in this chapter is the most Evangelical Prophecy In this chapter you have a most plain lively and full description In this chapter you have the compact and agreement between God the father and Jesus Christ plainly asserted and proved and representation of the humiliation death and passion of Jesus Christ which indeed is so exact and so consonant to what hath fallen our since that Isaiah seems here rather to pen an history than a Prophecy The matter contained in this chapter is so convictive from that clear light that goes along with it ● that several of the Jews in reading of this chapter have been converted as not being able to stand any longer out against the shining light and evidence of it Out of this chapter which is more worth than all the Gold of Ophir yea than ten thousand worlds Observe with me these eight things First Observe that God and Christ are sweetly agreed and infinitely pleased in the conversion of the Elect vers 10. He shall see his seed that is he shall see them called converted changed and sanctified he shall see his seed that is an innumerable company shall be converted to him by his word and spirit in all countreys Psal 110. 3. 1 Pet. 1. 23. and nations through the mighty workings of the spirit and the incorruptible seed of the word infinite numbers of poor souls should be brought in to Jesus Christ which Rev. 7. 9. Heb. 2. 10 13. he should see to his full content and infinite satisfaction He shall see his seed that is he shall see them encrease and multiply he shall see believers brought in to him from all corners and quarters and he shall see them greatly encrease and grow by the preaching of the everlasting Gospel especially after his ascention into heaven and a more glorious pouring forth of the Holy Ghost upon his Apostles and others Act. 2. 37 41. Act. 4. 1 2 3 4. Act. 8. No accountants on earth can count or reckon up Christ's spiritual seed and issue But Secondly observe with me that in the persons redeemed by Jesus Christ there was neither weight nor Ex●k 16. 1 10. worth neither portion nor proportion neither inward or outward excellencies or beauties for which the punishment due to them should be transferred upon dear Jesus for if you look upon them in their sins in their guilt you shall find them despisers and rejecters of Christ v●rs 4. Surely he hath born our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him stricken smitten of God and afflicted Christ took upon him not our nature alone but the infirmities also of it and became liable to such sorrows and afflictions and pains and griefs as man's sinful nature is exposed and subject unto They R●m 8. 3. Heb. 4. 15. are called ours because they were procured to him by our sins and sustained by him for the discharge of our sins unto the guilt whereof out of love to us undertaken by him they were deservedly due Christ for our sakes hath taken all our spiritual maladies that is all our sins upon him to make satisfaction for them and as our surety to pay the debt that we had run into Christ in the quality of a pledg for his Elect hath given full satisfaction for all their sins bearing all the punishments due for them in torments and extreme griefs both of body and soul The reason why they so much disesteemed of Christ was because they made no other account but You know they traduced hi● as a notorious deceiver a drunkard a friend of publicans and sinners and one that wrought by the De●il that all those afflictions that befel him were by God inflicted upon him for his own evil deserts They accounted him to be one out of grace and favour with God yea to be one pursued by him with all those evils for his sins when the Jews saw what grievous things Christ suffered they wickedly and impiously judged that he was thus handled by God in way of vengeance for his sins By all which you may see that in the persons redeemed by Christ there was nothing of worth or honour to be found for which the punishment due to them should

cast away their transgressions as Ephraim did his Idols saying Hos 14. 8. what have I any more to do with you Fourthly You have the way and manner of the Elect's delivery and that is not only by paying down upon the nail the price agreed on but also by a strong and powerful hand as the original Rom. 11. 26. Isa 59. 20. Ru●mends 〈◊〉 imports in the Scriptures cited in the margin The Greek word that is used by Paul and the Hebrew word that is used by Isaiah do both signifie delivering by strong hand to rescue by force as David delivered the Lamb out of the Lyon's paw Fifthly you have the special blessings that are to be conferred upon the Elect viz. Redemption conversion saith repentance reconciliation turning from their iniquity all comprehended under that term the Redeemed Sixthly You have the Lord Jesus Christ considered as the head of the Church from whom all spiritual gifts viz. sanctification salvation and perseverance do flow and run as a precious balsom upon the members of his body My spirit that is in me saith God the Father to Christ the Redeemer and my word which I have put into thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed c. In these words God the father engages that his spirit and word should continue with his Church to direct and instruct it and the children of it in all necessaries throughout all ages successively even unto the world's end But The Seventh Scripture is that Zach. 6. 12 13. And The 7. Proof speak unto him saying thus speaketh the Lord of hosts saying behold the man whose name is the Branch and he shall grow up out of his place and he shall build the temple of the Lord. Even he shall build the temple of the Lord and he shall bear the glory and shall sit and rule upon his throne and he shall be a priest upon his throne and the counsel of peace shall be between them bot 〈…〉 ●ow that the business of man's Redemption was transacted betwixt the father and the son is very clear from this text And the counsel of peace shall be between them both that is the two persons spoken of viz. the Lord Jehovah who speaks and the man whose name is the Branch Jesus Christ This counsel was primarily about the reconcilation of the riches of God's grace and the glory of his justice What ever Socinians say 't is most certain that Recon●iliation is not only on the sinner's part but on God's also the design and counsel both of the father and the son was our peace The counsel of reconciliation how man that is now an enemy to God may be reconciled to God and God to him this counsel or consultation shall be betwixt them b●th that is Jehovah and the Branch There were blessed transactions between the father and the son in order to the making of peace between an angry God and sinful men I know several learned men interpret it of Christ's offices viz. of his Kingly and Priestly office for both conspire to make peace betwixt God and man Now if you will thus understand the text yet it will roundly follow that there was a consultation at the counsel-board in heaven concerning the reconciliation of fallen man to God which reconciliation Christ as King and Priest was to bring about Look as there was a counsel taken touching the creation of mankind between the persons in the blessed Trinity Let us make man after our Image so there was a consultation held concerning Gal. 1. 26. Col. 3. 10. Eph. 4. 24. the restauration of mankind out of their lapsed condition The counsel of peace shall be between them both Certainly there was a Covenant of Redemption made with Christ upon the terms whereof he is constituted to be a Reconciler and a Redeemer To say to the prisoners Go forth to bring deliverance 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. But The Eighth Scripture is that Psal 40. 6 7 8. Sacrifice The eighth proof and offering thou didst not desire mine ears hast thou opened burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required Then said I lo I come in the volume of the book it is written of me I delight to do thy will O my God yea thy Law is within my heart Heb. in the midst of my bowels compared with that Heb. 10. 5 6 7. Wherefore when he cometh into the world he saith sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not but a body hast thou prepared for me In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure Then said I lo I come in the volume of the book it is written of me to do thy will O God In these two Scriptures two things are concluded 1. The impotency of Legal Sacrifices vers 5 6. 2. The all sufficiency of Christ's sacrifice vers 7. There is some difference in words and phrases betwixt the Apostle and the Prophet but both agree in sence as we shall endeavour to demonstrate Pen men of the New Testament were not Translators of the Old but only quoted them for proof of the point in hand so as they were not tied to syllables and letters but to the sence That which the Prophet speaketh of himself the Apostle applieth to Christ say some this may be readily granted For David being a special type of Christ that may in history and type be spoken of David which in mystery and truth is understood of Christ But that which David uttered in the aforesaid text is questionless uttered by the way of Prophecy concerning Christ as is evident by these reasons First In David's time God required sacrifices and burnt offerings and ●ook delight therein for God answered 1 Chron. 21. 26. 1 Sam. 26. 19. David from heaven by fire upon the Altar of burnt-offering and David himself advised Saul to offer a burnt offering that God might accept of it Secondly David was not able so t● do the will of God as by doing it to make all sacrifices void therefore this must be taken as a Prophecy of Christ Thirdly In the verse before namely Psal 40. 5. such an admiration of God's goodness is premised as cannot fitly be applied to any other evidence than of his goodness in giving Christ in reference to whom it may be truly said That eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 2. 9. Fourthly These words used by the Apostle when he cometh into the world he saith are meant of Christ which argue that that which followeth was an express prophecy of Christ These things being premised out of the Texts last cited we may observe these following particulars that make to our purpose First That the holy spirit opens and expounds the Covenant of