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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
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3.1 There is hereby a full security given us of justification to be continued for ever. The danger either must lie in old sins coming into remembrance, or else from sins newly to be committed. Now first, God hereby takes order,2 that no old sins shall come up into remembrance, to trouble his thoughts, (as in the old Law, after the Priests going into the Holy of holies, their sins are said yet to have done, Heb. 10. 3.) and to that end it was that he placed Christ as his Remembrancer for us, so near him, to take up his thoughts so with his obedience, that our sins might not come into mind: not that God needed this help to put himself in mind, but only ⟨p. 136⟩for a formality sake, that things being thus really carried between God and Christ for us, according to a way suiting with our apprehensions, our faith might be strengthened against all suppositions and fears of after reviving our guilts. Look therefore, as God ordained the Rain-bow in the heavens, that when he looked on it, he might remember his Covenant, never to destroy the world again by water; so he hath set Christ as the Rain-bow about his Throne. And look as the Bread and Wine in the Lords Supper are appointed on earth to show forth Christs death, as a Remembrancer to us; so is Christ himself appointed in heaven to show forth his death really, as a Remembrancer thereof to his Father; and indeed, the one is correspondent to the other: Only the Papists have perverted the use of the Lords Supper, by making it on earth, a commemorative sacrifice to God, when as it is but a Remembrancer thereof to men: and besides, their Priests therein do take upon themselves this very office of presenting this sacrifice to God, which is proper only to Christ in Heaven; But God when he would make sure not to be tempted to remember our sins any more, nor trouble himself with them, hath set his Christ by him to put him in mind of his so pleasing an offering. So the High-Priests going into the Holy of holies, was for a memorial, and therein the Type of Christ. And this is plainly & expressly made the use of this execution of his Priestly office in Heaven, Heb. 8. where the Apostle having discoursed of that part of his office (as