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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.
1.1 Our first actual or initial Justification, (which is given us at our first conversion) depends upon Christs Intercession: Therefore in the fore-mentioned prayer on the Cross, the thing he prayed for was Forgiveness, Father forgive them. You heard before that Christs death affords the matter of our justification, as being that which is imputed, the ransom, the price, the thing it self that satisfies: And that his Resurrection was the original act of. Gods justifying us in Christ; We were virtually justified then in Christ his being justified as in a Common Person. But besides all this, there is a personal or an actual Justification to be bestowed upon us, that is, an accounting and bestowing it upon us in our own persons; which is done when we believe, and it is called (Rom. 5. 1.) a being justified by faith, and (ver. 10.) receiving the atonement: now this depends upon Christs Intercession; and it was typified out by Moses his sprinkling the people with blood, mentioned Heb. 9. 19. which thing Jesus Christ as a Mediator and Priest doth now from Heaven: For Heb. 12. 24. it is said, You are come to Heaven, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant, ⟨p. 134⟩and (as it is next subjoined) to the blood of sprinkling: he shed his blood on the Cross on earth, but he sprinkleth it now as a Priest from Heaven: For it is upon Mount Zion, to which (he had said first in the former verse) ye are come; and so to Christ as a Mediator standing on that mount, and sprinkling from thence his blood: and so therein there is an allusion unto Moses, Christs Type, who sprinkled the people with the blood of that ceremonial covenant, the type of the covenant of grace. Now in the 1 Pet. 1. 2. The sprinkling of Christ his blood, as it is there made the more proper work of Christ himself, in distinction from the other persons, (and therefore was done by Moses, who was his type) so is it also put for our first justification. And this sprinkling (as it is there mentioned) is from the virtue of his intercession: And therefore in that place of the Heb. forecited, he attributes an intercession unto it, as the phrase that follows, which [speaks] better things, &c. doth imply, of which more hereafter.