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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.
and after that, when he was laid in the grave, they are giving up all their faith in ⟨p. 26⟩him, We trusted it should have been he (say two of them) that should have redeemed Israel: They question, whether he was the Messiah or no, Luke 24. 21. Now when Christ came first out of the other world, from the dead, clothed with that heart and body which he was to wear in heaven, what message sends he first to them? we would all think, that as they would not know him in his sufferings, so he would now be as strange to them in his Glory: or at least, his first words shall be to rate them for their faithlessness and false-hood: but here is no such matter; for John 20. 17. his first word concerning them is, Go tell my Brethren, &c. You read elsewhere, how that it is made a great point of love and condescending in Christ so to entitle them; Heb. 2. 11. [He is not ashamed to call them Brethren] (surely his brethren had been ashamed of him:) Now for him to call them so when he was first entering into his glory, argues the more love in him towards them. He caries it as Joseph did in the height of his advancement, when he first brake his mind to his brethren; I am Joseph your brother (says he, Gen. 45. 4.) So Christ says here, Tell them you have seen Jesus their Brother; I own them as brethren still. This was his first compellation; but what was the message that he would first have delivered unto them? that I (says he) ascend to my Father, and your Father. A more friendly speech by far, and arguing infinite more love then that of Josephs did, (though that was full of bowels) for Joseph after he had told them he was ⟨p. 27⟩their brother, adds, [whom you sold into Egypt,] he minds them of their unkindness, but not so Christ, not a word of that, he minds them not of what they had done against him. Poor sinners who are full of the thoughts of their own sins, know not how they shall be able at the latter day to look Christ in the face when they shall first meet with him: But they may relieve their spirits against their care and fear, by Christs carriage now towards his Disciples, who had so sinned against him: Be not afraid, your sins will he remember no more. Yea further, you may observe, that he minds them, not so much of what he had been doing for them; He says not, Tell them I have been dying for them, or, That they little think what I have suffered for them;