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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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Secondly, especially when Christ himself shall join with that cry and Intercession of his blood, himself in Heaven appearing and interceding in the strength of it.
Secondly, especially when Christ himselfe shall joyne with that cry and Intercession of his blood, himselfe in Heaven appearing and interceding in the strength of it.
For the first,1 the Apostle Heb. 12. 24. doth ascribe a voice, an appeal, an Intercession unto the blood of Christ in Heaven. The blood of sprinkling (says he) [speaks] better things then the blood of Abel. He makes Christs very blood an Advocate to speak for us, though Christ himself were silent; as he says in another case, Abel, though dead, yet speaketh, Heb. 11. 4. Many other things are said to cry to Scripture, (and I might show ⟨p. 165⟩how the cry of all other things do meet in this) but Blood hath the loudest cry of all things else, in the ears of the Lord of Hosts, the Judge of all the world, as he is in the 23. ver. of that 12. Chap. styled. Neither hath any cry the ear of Gods justice more then that of blood; The voice of thy brothers blood (says God to Cain) cries unto me from the ground, Gen. 4. 10. Now in that speech of the Apostle forecited, is the allusion made unto the blood of Abel, and the cry thereof: And he illustrates the cry of Christs blood for us, by the cry of that blood of Abel against Cain, it speaks better things then the blood of Abel: And his scope therein is by an Antithesis or way of opposition, to show, that Christs blood calls for greater good things to be bestowed on us for whom it was shed, then Abel's blood did for evil things, and vengeance against Cain, by whom it was shed. For look how loud the blood of one innocent cries for justice against another that murdered him; so loud will the blood of one righteous (who by the appointment and permission of a supreme Judge, hath been condemned for another) cry for his release and non-condemnation, for whom he dyed. And the more righteous he was, who laid down his life for another, the louder still is that cry, for it is made in the strength of all that worth which was in him, whose blood was shed. Now to set forth the power of this cry of Christs blood with justice, let us compare it with that cry of Abel's blood in these two things, wherein it will be