A85428:431
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
THE HEART OF Christ in Heaven, TO Sinners on Earth. › Epigraph › Section 1: §. I.
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.
so we translate it, but in the Original, He reserves not anger [unto the end.] So that the scope of this speech is to show how Christs heart and love would be towards them even for ever, when he should be gone unto his Father, as well as it was to show how it had been ⟨p. 9⟩here on earth; they being his own, and he having loved them, he alters, he changes not, and therefore vvill love them for ever.
so we translate it, but in the Originall, He reserves not anger [unto the end.] So that the scope of this speech is to shew how Christs heart and love vvould be towards them even for ever, when he should be gone unto his Father, as well as it vvas to shew how it had beene ⟨p. 9⟩here on earth; they being his owne, and hee having loved them, he alters, he changes not, and therefore vvill love them for ever.
And then thirdly, to testify thus much by a real testimony, what his love would be, when in heaven to them, the Evangelist shows, that when he was in the middest of all those great thoughts of his approaching glory, and of the sovereign estate which he was to be in, he then took water and a towel, and washed his Disciples feet. This to have bin his scope will appear, if you observe but the coherence in the second verse, it is said, that Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, then (ver. 4.) he riseth from supper, and lays aside his garments, and took a towel and girded himself; (ver. 5.) after that, he poured water into a basin, and began to wash his Disciples feet, &c. where it is evident that the Evangelists scope is to hold forth this unto us, that then when Christs thoughts were full of his glory, & when he took in the consideration of it unto the utmost; even then, and upon that occasion, and in the midst of those thoughts, he washed his Disciples feet; And what was Christs meaning in this, but that, whereas when he should be in heaven, he could not make such outward visible demonstrations of his heart, by doing such mean services for them; therefore by doing this in the middest of such thoughts of his glory, he would show what he could be content (as it were) to do for them, when he should be in full possession of it? (so great is his love unto them.) There is another