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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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A Third demonstration both of Christs greatness with God,1 & his power to prevail for us, is taken from this, that God hath put all power into his hand, to do what ever he will, hath made him his King to do what pleaseth him either in Heaven, Earth, or Hell; yea to do all that God himself ever means to do, or all that God desires to do: And certainly if his Father hath been so gracious to him as to bestow so high and absolute a sovereignty on him, as to accomplish and effect what ever he means to do, surely his purpose was never to deny Christ any request, that he should after this make: he would never have advanced the Humane nature to that absoluteness else. Those two great Monarchs made great grants and largesses, the one to Esther, the other to Herodias daughter; but yet they were limited only to the half of their Kingdoms: so Mar. 6. and Est. 5. 6. and the royal power in their Kingdoms, they meant still to retain and reserve wholly to themselves: But God having placed Christ on his Throne, bids him ask even to the whole of his Kingdom, for God hath ⟨p. 173⟩made him a King, sitting on his Throne with him, not to share halves, but to have all power in heaven and earth; He hath committed all judgement to the Son, to save and condemn whom ever he will; and so far as the Kingdom of God goes, or is extended, he may do any thing. So John 5. 21. As the Father raiseth up the dead, so the Son quickeneth whom he will; for as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself, ver. 26. and hath in like manner given authority to execute judgement also, as the Son of man, (namely, of himself) ver. 27. as he had said, He had given him to have life in himself, ver. 26. (not dependently, as we have, but independently) so to execute judgement also, ver. 27. So that Christs will is as free, and himself as absolute a Monarch and King of himself, as God himself is. He indeed hath it not à seipso, but in seipso; not à seipso originally, but from his Father; but in seipso independently.
A Third demonstration both of Christs greatnes with God,1