A85428:160
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.
And 2.1 for what befell him for sin, that befell them also by the same Law of his being a person representing them. Hence ver. 12. Death is said to pass upon all men, namely for this, that Adams sin was considered as theirs, as it there follows. It is said to pass, even as a sentence of death passeth upon a condemned Malefactor. And ver. 18. Judgment is said to come by that one mans offence, upon all men, to condemnation. Now in Gen. 2. 17. the threatening was spoken only to Adam, as but one man, In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die: And Gen. 3. 19. that sentence seems only to pass upon him alone, [Unto dust thou shalt return.] Yet in threatening Adam, God threatened us all; and in sentencing Adam to death, he sentenced us also: The curse reacheth us too; Death passed upon all men then, and therefore by a just Law Death reigns over all, as ver. 14. and 17. because Adam was in all this,2 a Common person representing us, and so in our stead; and so all this concerns us, as truly and as nearly as it did him. I say by a just Law; for indeed the Scripture upon the equity of this Rule, pronounceth a Statute out against all men, that they should die, Heb. 9. 27. Statutum st, It is appointed by a Statute Law, that all should die. Now if you search for this Statute, when and where enacted, you will find, that the Original Record and Roll is that in Gen. 3. 9. spoken ⟨p. 61⟩only of Adam, but holding true of us, [To dust thou shalt return.]
And 2.1 for what befell him for sin, that befell them also by the same Law of his being a person representing them. Hence ver. 12. Death is said to passe upon all men, namely for this, that Adams sin was considered as theirs, as it there follows. It is said to passe, even as a sentence of death passeth upon a condemned Malefactor. And ver. 18. Iudgment is said to come by that one mans offence, upon all men, to condemnation. Now in