A85428:477
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.
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 ⟨p. 44⟩hold fast our profession] implies; Now that which attempted to pull it from them, were their persecutions and oppositions from without: It appears also because his argument here of comforting them against these infirmities, is drawn from Christs example, In that he was in all things tempted as we are.
1. That under [Infirmities] he meanes 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 ⟨p. 44⟩hold fast our profession] implyes; Now that which attempted to pull it from them, were their persecutions and oppositions from without: It appears also because his argument here of comforting them against these infirmities, is drawne from Christs example, In that he was in all things tempted as we are.