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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.
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.
And that both these are meant,
And that both these are menat,
1. That under [Infirmities] he means persecutions and afflictions is manifest, not only in that the word is often used in that sense, as 2 Cor. 11. 30. and Chap. 12. 5. but also it is plain, that the phrase is here so intended, for his scope is to comfort them against what would pull from them their profession, as that fore-going exhortation [Let us