A85428:446
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.
In the fourth place, if this be not enough to assure them how his heart would be affected towards them, he assures them he will give them daily experience of it. Do but try me (says he) when I am gone, and that by sending me word upon all occasions, what you would have me to do for you, (and I have left my Spirit to be your Secretary, and the Inditer of all your Petitions) Hitherto you have asked nothing (that is, little) in my name, (he blames them that they have asked him no more to do for them) but now ask and you shall receive. And if otherwise you vvill not believe, yet you shall believe your own eyes; ask & you shall see your selves answered presently: ⟨p. 20⟩and so Believe me (says he) for the very works sake, Joh. 14. 11. He speaks it of the works he would do for them, in answer to their prayers when he was gone; which should be as so many Epistles of his heart, returned in answer unto theirs: For it follows, ver. 12. He that believeth on me shall do greater works then I, because I go to my Father. So that it is manifest, he speaks of the works done after his Ascension. And how were they to get and procure them to be done? By Prayer; so it follows, ver. 13. And whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do. He speaks it of the time when he is gone. And again he says in ver. 14. If you shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. Let me but hear from you, be it every week, every day, every hour, you shall be sure of an answer, (Open your mouths wide, & I will fill them) And those your Prayers shall be as continual tokens both of your hearts towards me, and my answers shall be the like of mine to you. And because Christ bids them direct (their Letters) their Prayers to the Father, only to send them in his name, as John 16. 23. and so they might perhaps not so clearly know and discern that his heart was in the answer to them, but his Fathers hand only, therefore he adds twice in the 14. of John, [I will do it, I will do it.] He speaks like one as forward to do for them, as his Father is or should be; and as desirous to have them know and take notice of his hand in it: And it is as if he had said, Though you ask the Father in my name, yet all comes through my hands, and I will do it: there must ⟨p. 21⟩be my hand to the warrant for every thing that is done, and my heart shall not be wanting.