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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	add_v	people_n	zion_n	15	3	9.0768	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

utter any thing to the prejudice of them that put him to death but prayed for them that crucified Luk. 23. 34. Mat. 26. ●3 cap. 27. 12 14. him He was led as a lamb to the slaughter properly as an ewe-lamb or she lamb the ewe is mentioned as the quieter of that kind because the rams are sometimes more unruly and as a sheep that is dumb before the face of her shearers A lamb doth not bite nor push him that is going about to kill it but goeth as quietly to the shambles or the slaughter-house as if it were going to the fold wherein it is usually lodged or the field where it is wont to feed But Sixthly Observe with me That the original cause of this compact or Covenant between the father and the son by vertue of which God the father demands a price and Jesus Christ pays the price according to God's demands is only from the free grace and favour of God vers 10. It pleased the Lord to bruise him he hath put him to grief God the father looks upon Jesus Christ as sustaining our person and cause he looks upon all our sins as laid upon him and to be punished in him Sin could not be abolished the justice of God could not be satisfied the wrath of God could not be appeased the terrible curse could not be removed but by the death of Christ and therefore God the father took a pleasure to bruise him and to put him to grief according to the agreement between him and his son It must be readily granted that God did not incite or instigate the wicked Jews to those vile and cruel courses and carriages of their to Jesus Christ but yet that his sufferings were by God predetermined for the salvation of mankind is most evident by the Scriptures in the margin and accordingly it pleased Act. 2. 23. cap. 4. 28. the Lord to bruise him and to put him to grief The singular pleasure that God the father takes in the work of our Redemption is a wonderful demonstration of his love and affection to us Seventhly Observe with me That it is agreed between the father and the son that our sins shall be imputed unto him and that his righteousness should be imputed unto us and that all the redeemed shall believe in him and so be justified vrrs 11. He shall see of the travel of his soul and shall be satisfied by his knowledg or faith in him shall my righteous servant justifie many for he shall hear their iniquities Or as some render it He shall see the fruit of the travel of his soul and shall be satisfied That is Jesus Christ shall receive and enjoy that as the effect and issue of all the great pains that he hath taken and of all the grievous things that he hath suffered as shall give him full content and satisfaction when Christ hath accomplished the work of Redemption he shall receive a full reward for all his sufferings Christ takes a singular pleasure in the work of our Redemption and doth herein as it were refresh himself as with the fruits of his own labours God the father engages to Jesus Christ that he should not travel in vain but that he should survive to see with great joy a numerous issue of faithful souls begotten unto God you know when women after sore sharp hard labour are delivered they are so greatly refreshed delighted gladded and satisfied that they forget their former pains and sorrow for joy that a manchild is born into the world God the father undertakes Joh. 16. 21. that Jesus Christ should have such a holy seed such a blessed issue as the main fruit and effect of his passion as should joy him please him and as he should rest satisfied in Certainly there could be no such joy and satisfaction to Christ as for him to see poor souls reconciled justified and saved by his sufferings and satisfaction as 't is the highest joy of a faithful minister to see souls 1 Thes 2. 19 20. Gal. 4. 19. won over to Christ to see souls built up in Christ Christ did bear the guilt of his peoples sins and thereby he made full satisfaction and therefore he is said here to justifie many not all promiscuously but those only whose sins he undertook to discharge and for whom he laid down his life Christ's justifying of many is his discharging of many from the guilt of sin by making satisfaction to God for the same But Eighthly Observe with me That it is agreed between the Father and the Son that for those persons for whom Besides the Ele●t be i●terceeds for none Joh. 17. 9 10. Jesus Christ should lay down his life he should stand intercessour for them also that so they may be brought to the possession of all those noble favours and blessings that he has purchased with his dearest blood vers 12. He bare the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors saying father forgive them for they know not what they Luk. 23. 24. do For those very transgressors by whom he suffered he does intercede for the article here is emphatical and seems to point unto that special act and those particular persons Not but that these words have relation also to Christ's intercession for all those sinners that belong to him and that have an interest in him which intercession continues still and shall do to the end of the world Heb. 7. 25. But The Sixth Scripture is that Isa 59. 20 21. And the The Sixth Proof redeemer shall come to Zion and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob saith the Lord. As for me this is my covenant with them saith the Lord my spirit that is upon thee and my words which I have put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth no● out of the mouth of thy seed nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed saith the Lord from hence forth and for ever Out of this blessed Scripture you may observe these following things First the parties covenanting and agreeing and they are God the father and Jesus Christ God the father in those words saith the Lord and Jesus Christ in those words The redeemer shall come to Zion Secondly You have God the father first covenanting with Jesus Christ and then with his seed as is evident in the 21. vers Thirdly You have the persons described that shall be sharers in Redemption mercies and they are the Sionites the people of God the citizens of Zion but lest any should think that all Zion should be saved it is added by way of explication that only such of Zion 〈…〉 urn from transgression in Jacob shall have benefit by the Redeemer The true Citizens of Rom. 11. 26. Zion the right Jacobs the sincere Israelites in whom there is no guile are they and only they that turn from their sins None have interest in Christ none have redemption by Christ but converts but such as