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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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 the mount if yet either he or they had the interpretation of them revealed to the perfection of all that which the holy Ghost intended Here is Jacob's ladder it reacheth from earth to heaven God standeth upon the top of it by these rounds and spokes the forementioned mysteries God sent down his son to be known and believed in such a manner as was most convenient to the old testament and by these rounds and spokes they ascended unto God that stood at the top of the ladder and had a saving knowledge of Christ sufficient for them to salvation and everlasting life till the whole earth should be filled with a more clear and perfect knowledge of the Lord by his comming in the flesh Divina eloquia tanto quisque altiùs intelligit quanto altiùs in eis intendit saith Saint Gregory They therefore that are better studied in the Scriptures will finde out farther mysteries But if any one shall differ from me in judgment I envy not unto him a greater soundnesse and perspicuity In eo quippe numero sumus ut non dedignemur etiam nobis dictum ab Apostolo accipere Et si quid aliter sapitis id quoque Deus vobis revelavit forasmuch as we rank our selves in the number of those who disdain not to take unto us that which was spoken by the Apostles And if in any thing ye be otherwise minded God also hath revealed that unto you to apply the words of Saint Augustine to my selfe Ad Vincent Donatist Epist 48. Here then we will put an end to the first book of this our sacred and mysterious History The Recapitulation having shewed how and in what manner that covenant which God made with Adam and with all his posterity during the first period of time for the space of about three thousand and nine hundred threescore and ten years was administred till the promised seed did come the son of God made of a woman made under the law To redeem them that were under the law that we might receive the adoption of sons Gal. 4.4 5. By covenanting grace By conferring faith By administring the covenant barely inform of a promise from Adam to Abraham By renewing the covenant with Abraham By adding circumcision a seal of the covenant By instituting the paschall lamb another seal of the same covenant By disposing it into the form of a Testament By the legall and by the evangelicall parts of it Which evangelicall part of it was invested with the Tabernacle The Ark the golden Table The golden Candlestick The Altar of incense The Sacred incense The brazen Altar The brazen Laver The Leviticall priesthood The garments of the high Priest The consecration of the high Priest The Leviticall offerings The daies and months and times and years The holy City The holy Temple The holy persons All which things were typicall and mysterious relating to Christ to the new testament confirmed by his blood to the Evangelicall Church THE SECOND BOOK OF THE SACRED AND MOST MYSTERIOUS HISTORY OF MANS REDEMPTION NOw was the second period of time The second period of time come wherein that promised Seed should abolish the old Testament first by his coming in the flesh 2ly By his administration of the Covenant in the flesh and 3ly by his death He would abolish the old Testament and he hath abolished it by not urging or exacting perfect obedience to the Law in a double purity a purity of nature and a purity of workes He would abolish the old Testament and he hath abolished it by unvailing the Evangelicall part of it in that he hath put away the shadows by the body it self the figures by the truth it self the temporall priesthood of Aaron by an eternall priesthood of Melchisedec and all those sacrifices which were offered year by year continually by that sole singular sacrifice of himself offered once for all He would abolish and he hath abolished the old Testament by taking off the two old seales Circumcision and the Paschal lambe and by annexing in place thereof two new seales proper to the new Testament Baptism and the sacrament of his Supper He would abolish and he hath abolished the old Testament by transferring the keyes of the kingdom of heaven from the legall to the Evangelicall priesthood After which manner God will have his Covenant to be administred with men unto the end of the world Therefore it came to pass not without the speciall providence of Almighty God The Emperour Augustus his Decree that the Emperour Augustus having compleatly raigned one and forty years and the two and fortieth being then current there being peace all the world over to the end that he might know his own strength in his Empire the number of those who had the priviledge to be Citizens of Rome what people were then subject to the Roman Empire in every place how disposed to peace or war of what power and wealth what contracts consanguinities affinities they had among ●hemselves to the end that he might know how to impose tributes how to make wars in whom he might confide whom he had to distrust whom to fear set forth an edict or decree that all the world that is to say his whole Emperiall Dominion in all the parts and provinces subject to the same all the world over should be taxed described inventaried or inrolled by appearing personally before such persons as he had then deputed for that service and by giving in their names surnames parentage alliances estates arts trades and conditions of life what children what families c. to the end that all these things might remain upon Record to be made use of as occasion should serve For all this is meant by the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 although our late Translation render it should be taxed and taxing but in the Margin have noted inrolled Luc. 2. S. Luc. 2.1 2 For this cause Publius Sulpitius Quirinius called by the Evangelist Cyrenius was sent with commission into Syria Judea being comprehended as a part thereof And because that Palestina was divided unto the tribes by lot and the severall tribes into severall families who had also in their severall families the Cities of the heads of their families therefore David being the head of his family and Bethlehem the city of David holy Ioseph with the blessed Virgin St Mary his espoused wife being great with childe both of them being of the tribe of Iudah and of the house and linage of David in obedience to the Emperiall decree went up from Nazareth the place of their habitation Nazareth S. Luc. 4.29 which was a little city of Galilee the lower built upon an hill in the tribe of Zebulon unto Beth-lehem Ephratah another city Mic. 5.2 Bethlehem Ephratah distant from Ierusalem about six miles toward the South and was scituate upon an hill threescore and twelve miles from Nazareth Southward there to be taxed or enrolled and to give in