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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
THE HEART OF Christ in Heaven, TO Sinners on Earth. › Epigraph › Section 2: §. 2.
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.
§. 2.
Demonstrations from passages and expressions after his Resurrection.
These Demonstrations have been taken from his carriage and Sermon before his death, even at his first breaking of his mind unto his Disciples concerning his departure from them. Let us now take a view of our Saviour in his behaviour after his Resurrection; whence a further Indicium of his heart, how it would stand towards sinners when he should be in Heaven, may be taken, and his love demonstrated. For his Resurrection was the first step unto his Glory, and indeed an entrance into it; when he laid down his body, he laid down all earthly weaknesses, and passions of flesh and blood. It was sown (as ours is) in weakness; but with raising of it up again, he took on him the dispositions and qualifications of an immortal and glorious body, It was raised in power. And The days of his flesh (or frail estate) as the Author to the Hebrews, by way of distinction ⟨p. 25⟩speaks, were past and over at his Resurrection: and the garment of his body was new dyed, and endowed with new qualities: and thereby it was made of a stuff fit to bear and sustain Heavens Glory: and therefore, what now his heart upon his first rising shall appear to be towards us, will be a certain demonstration, what it will continue to be in heaven. And to illustrate this the more, consider, that if ever there were a trial taken, whether his love to sinners would continue or no, it was then at his Resurrection, for all his Disciples (especially Peter) had carried themselves the most unworthily towards him in that interim, that could be; and this then when he was performing the greatest act of love towards them, (namely, dying for them) that ever was shown by any. (And by the way, so God often orders it, that when he is in hand with the greatest mercies for us, and bringing about our greatest good, then we are most of all sinning against him; which he doth, to magnify his love the more.) You know how they all forsook him, and in the midst of his Agony in the Garden, (in which he desired their company, merely for a relief unto his sadded spirit) they slept, and lay like so many blocks, (utterly senseless of his dolours) which had they had any friendly sympathy of, they could never have done; [Could you not watch with me one hour?] Then you know, how foully Peter denied him with oaths and curses;