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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.
First,1 in respect of the nearness of his alliance to him, He is the natural Son of God, God of God, and therefore certain to prevail with him. This is diligently still put in, almost in all places, where this part of his Priest-hood (his Intercession) is mentioned, in the Epistle to the Heb. So in the 4. of the same Epistle, ver. 14. We have a great High-priest entered into the heavens, Jesus, [the Son of God.] So Heb. 7. 25. and 28. ver. compared, the Apostle having said, ver. 25. that He is able to save to the utmost, seeing he ever lives to make Intercession) he doth ver. 28. devolve this ability of his to save (ultimately) upon his being the Son: thus in the 28. verse, in the end of that discourse, this is made as the Basis of all: [The Law (saith he) makes men High priests which have infirmity] (which infirmity or disability of theirs, is mentioned in opposition unto what he had just before spoken of the great ability of his our High-priest in his interceding, ver. 25. in those words, He is [able] to save to the utmost.) Those Priests whom the ceremonial Law made, (Aaron and his sons) are unable to save, they have infirmity: Now what is it in him that makes this difference, and him so able above what they were? The word of the Oath makes the [Son] (says he) who is perfected (as you have it in the Greek, and margin) for evermore. He mentions this his Son-ship principally in relation to his Intercession, which there he had discoursed of. Intercession is a carrying on our salvation in ⟨p. 154⟩a way of grace and favour, as his death was by way of satisfaction. 2And answerably it may be observed in the Scripture, that as the all-sufficiency of the satisfaction of his death, is still put upon his being God; and so upon the greatness of his Person considered in respect of his nature or essence, namely, his God-head: So in like manner, that the prevalence of his Intercession is founded upon the nearness of his relation unto God, his alliance to him, and the being his Sonne. Thus for the first. When Redemption is spoken of, the sufficiency of the price is eminently put upon his God-head, [The blood of God.] Thus also Heb. 9. where when he had (ver. 12.) shown how Christ had purchased and obtained a perfect redemption, he then argues the sufficiency of it from his God-head, ver. 13, 14.