A85428:180
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.
Now this is proved,1 first, by the very same reason or respect that he was said to be the first-fruits of them that sleep, as representing the rest in his Resurrection, (which I showed at large in the former Chap. upon the same ground he is to be so looked at also in this his Justification pronounced upon him at his Resurrection, even as the first-fruits also of them that are justified. And so in the same sense, & by the same reason that we are said to be risen with Christ, in his Resurrection; we must also be said to be justified with him, in this his justification, at his Resurrection. And indeed,2 (to enlarge this a little,) as there is the same reason & ground for the one that there is for the other, (he being a public person in both) so the rule will hold in all other things which God ever doth to us, or for us, which are common ⟨p. 73⟩with Christ, and were done to him; that in them all Christ was the first-fruits, and they may be said to have been done in us, or to us, yea by us, in him, and with him. Yea, what ever God meant to do for us, and in us, what ever privilege or benefit he meant to bestow upon us, he did that thing first to Christ, and (some way) bestowed the like on him as a Common person, that so it might be by a solemn formal Act ratified, and be made sure to be done to us in our persons in due time, having first been done to him representing our persons; and that by this course taken, it might (when done to us) be effected by virtue of what was first done to him. Thus God meaning to sanctify us,3 he sanctifies Christ first, in him as a Common person sanctifying us all: For their sakes I sanctify my self, that they also may be sanctified through thy truth, John 17. 19. He sanctifies the humane nature of Christ personal, that he may sanctify Christ mystical, (that is, his body) and him first, as a Common person representing us, that so we being virtually, and representatively sanctified in him, may be sure to be sanctified afterwards in our own persons, by means of his sanctification. And so in like manner for our sakes he was justified in the Spirit; because we were to be justified, and so to be justified first in him,