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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.
For the first of these,1 to illustrate and prove it in the general,2 that instance of Adam serves most fitly, and is indeed made use of in the Scripture, to that end. Adam, as you all know, was reckoned as a common public person,3 not standing singly or alone for himself, but as representing all Man-kind to come of him: So as by a just Law, what he did was reckoned to his posterity, whom he represented. And what was by that Law threatened, or done to him for what he did, is threatened against his posterity also. Now this man was herein a lively type of our Lord Christ,4 as you have it, Rom. 5. 14. [Who was the type of him who was to come.] Unto which purpose, the titles which the Apostle gives these two, Christ and Adam, 1 Cor. 15. 47. are exceeding observable; he calls Adam, The first man; and Christ our Lord, The second man: and both for that very purpose and respect which we have in hand: For, first, he speaks of them, as if there had never been any more men in the world, nor were ever to be for time to come, except these two: and why? but because these two between them, had all the rest of the sons of men hanging at their girdle; because they were both Common persons, that had the rest in like (though opposite) considerations included, and involved in them. Adam had all the sons of Men borne into this world, included in himself, who are therefore called earthly men, ver. 48. in a conformity to him the earthly man, ver. 47. and Christ the second man had ⟨p. 58⟩all his Elect, (who are the first-borne, and whose names are written in heaven, and therefore in the same ver. are oppositely called heavenly men) included in him. You see how he sums up the number of all men in two, and reckons but two men in all; these two, in Gods account, standing for all the rest. And farther observe, that because Adam was in this his being, a common person unto his, the shadow and the lively Type of Christ, who was to come after him; that therefore he is called The first man, (of these two) and Christ The second man, as typified out by him.