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Christ Set Forth
Christ set forth in his [brace] death, resurrection, ascension, sitting at Gods right hand, intercession, [brace] as the [brace] cause of justification. Object of justifying faith. Upon Rom. 8. ver. 34. Together with a treatise discovering the affectionate tenderness of Christs heart now in heaven, unto sinners on earth. / By Tho: Goodwin, B.D.Christ set forth in his [brace] death, resurrection, ascension, sitting at Gods right hand, intercession, [brace] as the [brace] cause of justification. Object of justifying faith. Upon Rom. 8. ver. 34. Together with a treatise discovering the affectionate tendernesse of Christs heart now in heaven, unto sinners on earth. / By Tho: Goodwin, B.D.
London: printed by W.E. and J.G. for Robert Dawlman, 1642
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
As first,1 Is sin the transgression of the Law? Christ dying, the Law-maker, was subjected to the Law; and will not that make amends? Is sin the debasement of Gods glory, manifested in his Word and Works? Christs dying was the debasement and emptying of the brightness of his glory in the highest measure, being personally manifested in the flesh. The one of them is but as the darkening the shine or lustre of the Sun upon a wall, but the other is as the obscuring of the Sun it self. Sins highest evil lies in offending God; but Christs righteousness is (oppositely) the righteousness of God himself; or Jehovah made our righteousness: So that God in our sin is considered but as the object against whom; but God in this our righteousness, is the subject from whom, and in whom this righteousness comes, and is seated: And so his God-head answerably gives a higher worth to it, by how much the alliance which the subject hath to an action of its own, that proceeds from it, is nearer then that which an object hath, against which the action is committed.
As first,1 Is sinne the transgression of the Law? Christ dying, the Law-maker, was subjected to the Law; and will not that make amends? Is sin the debasement of Gods glory, manifested in his Word and Works? Christs dying was the debasement and emptying of the brightnesse of his glory in the highest measure, being personally manifested in the flesh. The one of them is but as the darkning the shine or lustre of the Sun upon a wall, but the other is as the obscuring of the Sun it selfe. Sins highest evill lies in offending God; but Christs righteousnesse is (oppositely) the righteousnesse of God himselfe; or Iehovah made our righteousnesse: So that God in our sinne is considered but as the object against whom; but God in this our righteousnesse, is the subject from whom, and in whom this righteousnesse comes, and is feated: And so his God-head answerably gives a higher worth to it, by how much the alliance which the subject hath to an action of its owne, that proceeds from it, is nearer then that which an object hath, against which the action is committed.
- 11. Against the heinousness of sin in the general.1. Against the hainousnesse of sin in the generall.