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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. › Part 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.
The extrinsical Demonstrations of this (which I make the first part of it) are dispatched: And for a ground-word to these more Intrinsical Demonstrations (which make a second part) I have chosen this Text, as that which above any other speaks his heart most, and sets out the frame and workings of it towards sinners; and that so sensibly, that it doth (as it were) take our hands, and lay them upon Christs breast, and let us feel how his heart beats, and his bowels yearn towards us, even now he is in glory: The very scope of these words being manifestly to encourage Believers against all that may discourage them, from the consideration of Christs heart towards them now in heaven.
The extrinsecall Demonstrations of this (which I make the first part of it) are dispatched: And for a ground-word to these more Intrinsecall Demonstrations (which make a second part) I have chosen this Text, as that which above any other speaks his heart most, and sets out the frame and workings of it towards sinners; and that so sensibly, that it doth (as it were) take our hands, and lay them upon Christs breast, and let us feele how his heart beats, and his bowels yerne towards us, even now he is in glory: The very scope of these words being manifestly to encourage Beleevers against all that may discourage them, from the consideration of Christs heart towards them now in heaven.
To open them, so far as they serve to my present purpose.
First, all that may any way discourage us, he here calls by the name of Infirmities, thereby meaning both 1. The evil of afflictions of what sort soever, Persecutions, &c. from without. 2. The evil of sins which do most of all discourage us, from within.
First, all that may any way discourage us, he here calls by the name of Infirmities, thereby meaning both 1. The evill of afflictions of what sort soever, Persecutions, &c. from without. 2. The evill of sins which doe most of all discourage us, from within.