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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

engaged himself for us as that he neither can nor will start from his engagement You shall as soon remove the earth stop the Sun in his course empty the Sea with a cockle-shell make a world and unmake your selves as any power on earth or in hell shall ever be able to hinder Christ from the performance of the office of a surety A perfect fulfilling of all righteousness according to the tenour of the Law is required of man Now Christ our surety by a voluntary subjection of himself to the Law ●al 4. 4. Mat. 3. 15. and by being made under the Law he hath fulfilled all righteousness and that he did this for us is evident by that phrase of the Apostle Rom. 5. 19. By the obedience of one shall many be made righteous The contents of the Law must be accomplished by our surety or else we can Gal. 3. 10. 13. never escape the curse of the Law there must be a translation of the Law from us in our persons unto the person of our surety or we are undone and that for ever Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness and hath Rom. 10. 4. made us just by his obedience we are made the righteousness 2 Cor. 5. 21. of God in him Our surety became subject to the Law that he might redeem us that were obnoxious to the Law Again full satisfaction for every transgression is required of man Now Christ our surety hath made satisfaction for all our sins He was made a curse for us and by that Gal. 3. 13. means he hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law To exact a debt which is fully satisfied is a point of injustice now Christ our surety having made full satisfaction for all our sins we need not fear to stand before the face of God's justice A debtor that hath a surety that is able and willing to pay his debt yea who hath fully paid it need fear no colours This Title a surety of a better Covenant does necessarily import a blessed Covenant between Jesus Christ and his dear father to whom he freely and readily becomes surety for us for what is suretiship but a voluntary transferring of another's debt upon the surety he obliging to pay the debt for which he engageth as surety Thus you see by the blessed and glorious Titles that are given to Jesus Christ in the Scriptures that there was a Covenant of Redemption past between God the father and Jesus Christ But The Fifth Proposition is this That the work of our Redemption and Salvation was transacted between God the father and Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world This federal transaction between the father and the son was from eternity upon this account the Lord Rev. 13 8. God loved his people and provided for them and contrived all their happiness before they were yea before the world was Jesus is said to be the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world because that it was agreed and covenanted between God the father and Jesus Christ that he should in the fulness of time be made flesh and die for sinners and therefore it was said to be done from the foundation of the world Though Christ was not actually slain but when he suffered for us upon the Cross yet he was slain from the beginning in God's purpose in God's decrees in God's promises in the sacrifices in the faith of the elect and in the martyrs for Abel the first that ever died died a Martyr he died for Religion This compact betwixt the father and the son bears date from Eternity this the Apostle asserts 2 Tim. 1. 9. who hath saved us and called The Grace here spoken of cannot be understood of in 〈…〉 Grace unless we will say that it could be inf 〈…〉 into us be●●re either the world was or we were in it us with an holy calling not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began Here is grace given us in Christ Jesus before the world began But what grace was that which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began doubtless it was the Grace of Redemption which God in his purpose and decree had given us in Christ Jesus before the world began The Scripture last cited does clearly shew that God the father and Jesus Christ dealt together about the Redemption of souls before the world began and that all our everlasting concernments were agreed on and made sure between them so that Titus 1. 2. gives the same sound In hope of eternal life which God that cannot lie promised before the world began How was this life promised before the world began but in this Covenant of Redemption wherein God The whole business of our salvation was first transacted between the father and Christ before it was reveiled to us Joh. 6. 27. The Apostle Peter speaking of our Redemption by the precious blood of Christ saith That Christ was fore-ordained thereunto before the foundation of the world 1 Pet. 1. 20. the father promised and engaged to Jesus Christ that he would give eternal life to all his seed So the Apostle tells us He hath chosen us in him that is in Christ before the foundation of the world There was an eternal contrivance compact covenant or agreement between God the father and Jesus Christ concerning the sanctification holiness and salvation of the Elect. God agrees with Christ about the everlasting happiness of his chosen before the world began So Joh. 10. 16. And other sheep I have which are not of this fold them also I must bring Why must he bring them home how was he bound how was he engaged to bring home his other sheep that he puts a must upon it them also I must bring Doubtless it was from this Covenant and agreement which he had made with God the father wherein he had engaged himself to bring home all his Elect. Christ takes a great deal of pains to bring home his sheep being bound in the Covenant of Redemption to present all that are given him by charter blameless before the father therefore saith Colos 1. 22. he I bring them and I must bring them the matter not being lest arbitrary even in respect of his obligation to Psal 2. 7. Act. 15. 18. Act. 2. 23. Eph. 1. 9. Prov. 8. 22 32. God the father Certainly the Decree Covenant and agreement between God the father and Jesus Christ about the whole way of Redemption about all things belonging to the salvation of the Elect to be brought about in due time was fixed and setled before the world began Ponder seriously on this it may well be a load-stone to draw out your hearts more than ever to love the father and the son and to delight in the father and the son and to act faith upon the father and the son and to long to be with the

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

Shadrach Meshach and Abednego shall be cut in pieces and their houses shall be made a Dunghill c. Here God's Glory wonderfully shines out of their Sufferings Here this poor blind Idolatrous Heathen Prince is forced to confess that there is no God like Israel's God Basil and Tertullian do well observe of the Primitive Martyrs that divers of the Heathen seeing their zeal courage and constancy glorified God and turned Christians Religion is that Phoenix which hath always revived and flourished in the ashes of holy men and Truth hath never been so honoured and gloriously dispersed as when it hath been sealed by the blood of the Saints This made Julian to forbear to persecute non ex clementia sed invidia not out of piety but envy because the Church grew so fast and multiplied as Nazianzen well observes We read that some times the Sufferings of one Saint have begot many to the love of the Truth We read that Cicilia a poor Captive Virgin by her gracious behaviour in her Martyrdom was the means of converting four hundred to Christ Justine Martyr was also converted by observing the chearful and gracious Carriage of the Saints in their Sufferings And so Adrianus seeing the Martyrs suffer readily and joyfully such grievous torments asked why they would endure such misery when they might by retracting free themselves Upon which one of them cited that Text Eye hath not 1. Cor. 2. 9. seen nor ear heard neither have entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him Upon the naming of this Scripture and seeing of them suffer so willingly chearfully and resolutely such a Divine Power took hold of his heart that he was converted and afterwards became a Martyr Now God and Christ and Truth and Religion are never more honoured than when poor souls are soundly converted Surely the Crown of Martyrdom is a Glorious Crown and every soul won over to God by a dying Martyr will be as an Orient Pearl and Precious Diamond in his Crown of far more value than that Adamant found about Charles Duke of Burgundy slain by the Switzers at the Battel of Nantz sold for twenty thousand Duckets and placed as it is said in the Pope's Tripple Crown O A 7. 55 56 57. what fore●asts of Glory what ravishments of Soul have many of the Blessed Martyrs had in their sufferings for Christ Holy Lord stay thy hand I can bear no more said one of the Martyrs like weak eyes that cannot bear too great a light Is it not a high honour to a King to have such Captains and Champions as will not yield to their Sovereign's enemies but stand it out to the uttermost till they get the Victory though it cost them their lives to get it yet no mortal King can as Christ doth put spirit courage and strength into a Subject only we may well conceive and conclude that such Valourous Soldiers as are ready to hazard their lives for their Sovereign serve a good Master Thus do suffering Christians and Martyrs give Persecutors to understand that they serve a good Master and that they highly prize him who hath done more and suffered more for them than their dearest Blood is worth and who enables them with courage constancy and comfort to endure whatsoever for his names sake can be Rom. 8. 37. inflicted on them and therein to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 More than Conquerors or above Conquerors How can that be can a man get more than the Victory The meaning is we do over overcome super superanus that is triumph or overcome before we fight we are famous and renowned Conquerors we easily conquer we 2 Cor. 2. 14. conquer by those things which are used to conquer us we beat our enemies with their own Swords as Julian sometime said being confuted by Heathen Learning Martyr and Piscator expound it thus we do more than overcome that is we obtain a Noble a famous Victory And is not this a great honour to Christ the Heb. 2. 10. Captain of our Salvation The invincible courage of suffering Christians puts life and spirit into others In an Army valorous Leaders much animate the rest of the Soldiers and embolden them to follow their Leaders Now you know the Church is an Army with Banners and suffering Ministers and suffering Saints Cant. 6. 4. are as Leaders they couragiously and victoriously make the onset and other Christians by their pious examples are pricked on to follow them so far as they are followers of the Lamb. But Twelfthly Consider That all the Sufferings and Persecutions that you meet with on earth shall advance your Glory in Heaven Quisquis volens detrahit famae meae nolens addit mercedi meae saith Augustine The more we suffer with and for Christ the more Glory we shall have with and from Christ Rom. 2. 6. the more Saints are persecuted on earth the greater shall be their reward in heaven Look as Persecutions do encrease a Christian's Grace so they do advance a Christian's Glory in Heaven the Martyrs shall have the highest Degree of Glory for though God doth not reward men simply for their Works namely for the merit of them yet he rewards according to their Works and proportions the degree or measure thereof according to the kind of work which on earth is done and according to the measure of Grace whereby he enables men to do it Now Martyrdom is the most difficult the most honourable and the most acceptable Work that on earth can be done and therefore in heaven Martyrdom shall be crowned with the highest degree of Glory on this ground they who set down the different degrees of Celestial Glory by the different Fruits which the good Ground brought forth some thirty some sixty and some a hundred Mat. 13. 8. fold apply the hundred fold which is the highest and Mat. 19. 27 28 29 Keep your eye upon the recompence of reward as Moses did Heb. 11. 26. and as Christ did cap. 12 2. as Paul did Rom. 8. 18. This will work you 1. To walk more holily humbly thankfully 2. To live more chearfully and comfortably 3. To suffer more patiently freely resolutely 4. To fight against the world the flesh and the devil more stoutly and valiantly 5. To withstand Temptations more stedfastly strongly 6. To be contented with a little 7. To leave the world Relations and friends more willingly 8. And to embrace death more joyfully greatest Degree of Glory to Martyrdom Doubtless God's suffering Servants and amongst them especially his Martyrs shall sit down in the chiefest Mansions and in the highest Rooms in the Kingdom of Glory According to the Degrees of our sufferings for Christ will be the degrees of our Glory What shall we have says Peter that have suffered so many great and grievo●● 〈…〉 ngs for thy name that have forsaken all and followed thee Veri●y says our Saviour every one that hath forsaken

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

was faithful to him that appointed him Christ had a divine call to the execution of all those offices which he sustained as our Mediator he did not run before he was sent he did not act without a Commission and Warrant he was lawfully constituted by him who had power to undertake that great charge he hath over the Church this we shall find asserted of all his three offices As for his Priestly office he was made a Priest by an immediate call and ordination from God Heb. 5. 4 5 6. The scope of the Apostle is to set out the excellency of Christ's Priesthood by comparing it with the Levitical His Priesthood had a concurrence of all things necessary to the Levitical and it had many excellencies above that Now among other things required in the Priesthood of Aaron this was one there must be a divine regular call this was in the Priesthood of Christ He was called of God an high priest after the order Psal 110. 4. The Hebrew is Thou a Priest c. i. e. Thou shalt be a priest for ever it being the manner of the Hebrew Tongue sometimes for brevity sake to leave out a word which is to be understood and supplied of Melchisedek that Psal 110. 4. is God's sure and irrevocable promise to Christ touching that excellent and eternal Priesthood whereby the recovery of his seed was to be meritoriously obtained This Priestly office of Christ is sure because it is confirmed by God's oath of which before as well as his promise The promise makes it sure the oath doubly sure irrevocable And certainly the Lord neither can nor will ever repent himself of this promise and oath The Priesthood of Christ is the most noble part of all his mediation in the Priesthood of Christ and in that especially lies the latitude and longitude the profundity and sublimity of God's love towards us and in respect of this especially is the whole mystery of our Redemption by Christ called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the magnificent works of God Christ as man and as Mediator between God and man was by his father deputed unto his Priestly office Concerning the dignity and excellency of Christ's Priestly office above the Levitical Priesthood I have spoke elsewhere But Secondly God the father promises to Jesus Christ to make him a Prophet a great Prophet yea the Prince of Prophets Christ is a Prophet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in way of eminency and excellency above all other Prophets he was the chief the head of them all Christ was made a Prophet by an immediate call and ordination from God Christ in respect of his Prophetical office can plead the authority of his father he can shew a Commission for this office under his father 's own hand Deut. 18. 18. Vide Act. 3. 22. and ●●p 7. 37. Deut. 18. 15. Isa 61. 1. I will raise them a prophet from among their brethren like unto thee and will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command them Christ does not raise himself up to the Prophetical office but God the father raises him up to this great office He was anointed of God to preach glad tidings weigh that Isa 42. 6 I will give thee for a light to the gentiles to open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners from their prison and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed Luk. 4. 21. me to preach good tidings unto the meek he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted c. Thus you see that this Prophetical dignity of Christ that he is the grand Doctor of the Church is built upon the Authority of his ●ather who hath authorized and commissionated him to Christ displaces all Rabbies by assuming this title to himself one is your Doctor and Master even Christ Mat. 23. that great office Isa 50. 4. The Lord hath given me the tong●e of the learned that I should know how to speak a word in seaso● to him that is weary He wakeneth morning by morning ●● wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned Thus you see th●● God the father promiseth to invest Christ with a Prop 〈…〉 tick office for the opening the eyes of the blind c. This great Prophet is richly furnished with all kind of knowledg In him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledg they are hid in him as gold and silver are in suo loco as the Philosopher speaks hid in the veins of the earth Treasures of knowledg that is precious knowledg saving knowledg Treasures of knowledg that is plentiful knowledg abundance of knowledg Treasures that is hidden and stored knowledg was laid up in him All the Angels in heaven and all the men on earth do not know all that is in the heart of God but now Jesus Christ who lies in the bosom of the father he knows Joh. 1. 1● all that is in his father's heart all those secret mysteries that were laid up in the bosom of eternity are fully known to this great Prophet of the Church Joh. 5. 20. The father loveth the son and sheweth him all things that himself doth by a divine and unspeakable communication God the father shews to Jesus Christ all things that he doth God's love is communicative and will manifest it self in effects according to the capacity of the party beloved so much appeareth in that unspeakable love of the father to the son The father loveth the son and sheweth him all things c. Or communicateth his nature wisdom and power for operation with him which is expressed in terms taken from among men because of our weakness and ought to be spiritually and not carnally conceived of And therefore these terms of the father's shewing and the son's seeing are made use of to prevent all carnal and gross conceptions of this inexpressible communication from the Father and participation by the Son In the blessed Scripture Jesus Christ is sometimes called the Prophet and that Prophet because he is one that came from the bosom of the father and lives and lies i● the bosom of the father and understands the whole mi●d will heart counsels designs ways and workings of the father Jesus Christ is anointed by God the father ●o be the great Prophet and teacher of his Elect and ac●●rdingly Jesus Christ has taken that office upon himself 〈◊〉 the father has laid a charge upon Jesus Christ to tea●h and instruct all those that he has given him in his whole mind and will so far as is necessary to their salvation edification consolation c. Moses was faithful as a servant but Heb. 3. 2 5 6. Christ as a son Christ cannot be unfaithful in his Prophetical office those that God the father hath charged him to teach and instruct he will teach and instruct in the great things of their peace and no