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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.
In the other Prophets you shall find Christ still comforting himself against ⟨p. 71⟩his condemnation at his death, with the thoughts of his Resurrection which he fore-saw as shortly to follow after it; as here in Isaiah he comforts himself with these hopes of his being justified after their condemnation of him. For instance, Psa. 16. 9. My flesh shall rest in hope, thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, nor suffer thy holy One to see corruption. Which words (you know) Peter in the Acts doth twice interpret of Christs Resurrection. In like manner here in Isaiah, against his death and condemnation he comforts himself with the hopes of Gods justification of him at his Resurrection, He is near who justifies me, (and he shall help me) who shall condemn? And further,1 to confirm & strengthen this notion, because his Resurrection was the first moment of this his justification from our sins, therefore it is, that God calls it his first begetting of Christ, [This day have I begotten thee] speaking manifestly of his Resurrection, Acts 13. 35. And the reason of his so calling it, is, because all the while before he was covered with sin, and the likeness of sinful flesh; But now having flung it off, he appears like Gods Son indeed, (as if newly begotten.) And thus also there cometh to be the fuller conformity between Christ justification & ours: For as our justification is at our first being born again, 2so was Christ also at this his first glorious begetting. He was under an Attainder before; here was the Act of Restitution first passed. And as at our Conversion (which is to us a Resurrection) we pass from death to life; (that is, from an estate of death and condemnation, unto justification of life) so did Christ also at his Resurrection, (which to him was are begetting) pass ⟨p. 72⟩from an estate of death and guilt laid on him, to an estate of Life & Glory, and justification from guilt; and so shall appear, as the word is,