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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.
THE HEART OF Christ in Heaven, TO Sinners on Earth.
I. PART.
Having set forth our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST in all those great and most solemn actions of his, his Obedience unto death, his Resurrection, Ascension into heaven, his sitting at Gods right hand, and Intercession for us, (which of all the other hath been more largely insisted on) I shall now annex (as next in order, and homogeneall thereunto) this Discourse that follows, which lays open The HEART of Christ, as now he is in ⟨p. 2⟩heaven, sitting at Gods right hand, and interceding for us; How it is affected, and graciously disposed towards sinners on earth that do come to him; how willing to receive them; how ready to entertain them; how tender to pity them in all their infirmities, both sins and miseries. The scope and use whereof will be this, To hearten and encourage Believers to come more boldly unto the Throne of Grace, unto such a Saviour and High-priest, when they shall know how sweetly and tenderly his heart (though he is now in his glory) is inclined towards them; and so to remove that great stone of stumbling which we meet with, (and yet lieth unseen) in the thoughts of men in the way to faith, that Christ being now absent, and withal exalted to so high and infinite a distance of glory, as to sit at Gods right hand, &c. they therefore cannot tell how to come to treat with him about their salvation so freely, and with that hopefulness to obtain, as those poor sinners did, who were here on earth with him: Had our lot been (think they) but to have conversed with him (in the days of his flesh) as Mary, and Peter, and his other Disciples did here below, we could have thought to have been bold with him, and have been familiar with him, and to have had any thing at his hands; For they beheld him afore them, a man like unto themselves, and he was full of meekness, and gentleness, he being then himself made sin, and sensible of all sorts of miseries; but now he is gone into a far