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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.
Only,1 for farther explication sake, (lest there be a mistake) let me add this, That it is necessary that we be justified in our own persons by faith, (notwithstanding this former Act thus legally passed) whereby we lay hold upon what God did thus before for us in Christ, to the end that God upon our believing may according to his own rules justify his justifying of us unto all the world; which until we do believe, he could not do: For according to the revealed Rules of his Word, (which he professeth to proceed by at the latter day) there is a curse and a sentence of condemnation pronounced against us, under which we stand till he shall take it off, by giving us faith; unto which he hath, in the same Word made the promise of justifying us in our ⟨p. 78⟩own persons, as before he had done in Christ. Yet still notwithstanding, so, as, although when we first believe, then only Justification is actually and personally applied to us; yet at Christs Resurrection, and in his being then justified, this act and sentence was virtually pronounced upon us; and so doth necessarily require, and exact at Gods hands, the bestowing faith upon us; that so by virtue of this former act passed, we come to be actually justified in our own consciences, and before all the world: And so our Justification which was but secretly wrought, & passed upon us in Christ, is never made void, but stands irrepealable; and so ratified, that our personal justification by faith doth always infallibly second and succeed it. And (to illustrate it a little) our condemnation in Adam, and this our justification in Christ, do in this hold parallel together, That as in Adam we were all virtually condemned, (In Adam all dye) (and that legally enough too, for thereupon came out that Statute-Law, Statutum est, It is appointed that all should dye) and yet we are not actually in our own persons condemned, till we are borne of him; nor do we personally dye, until we lay down our flesh: Even so is it in the matter of our Justification; it was done virtually in Christ, and afterwards when we believe, is actually passed in and upon our selves.
Onely,1 for farther explication sake, (lest there be a mistake) let me adde this, That it is necessary that we be justifyed in our owne persons by faith, (notwithstanding this former Act thus legally passed) whereby we lay hold upon what God did thus before for us in Christ, to the end that God upon our beleeving may according to his owne rules justifie his justifying of us unto all the world; which untill vve doe beleeve, hee could not doe: For according to the revealed Rules of his Word, (vvhich he professeth to proceed by at the latter day) there is a curse and a sentence of condemnation pronounced against us, under which we stand til he shall take it off, by giving us faith; unto which he hath, in the same Word made the promise of justifying us in our