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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 › Section 1: §. 1.
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 this was the principal thing signified by this descending of the holy Ghost as a Dove upon him, (even chiefly to note out his meekness, and sympathizing heart with sinners, wrought in him by the holy Ghost) is evident by two places, where Christ himself puts that very intendment on it.
And that this was the principall thing signified by this descending of the holy Ghost as a Dove upon him, (even chiefely to note out his meekenesse, and sympathizing heart with sinners, vvrought in him by the holy Ghost) is evident by two places, vvhere Christ himselfe puts that very intendment on it.
The first presently after, in the first Sermon that he preached after that his having received the holy Ghost, (in the same 4. of Luke) where first it is noted ver. 1. that he returned from being baptized, full of the Spirit, and so was led to be tempted: then ver. 14. it is said that he returned from being tempted in the power of that spirit, and after this is explained by himself the mystery of his having received the Spirit in the likeness ⟨p. 63⟩of a dove, and this is the subject matter of the first Text which he opened in his first Sermon, singled out by him on purpose, by choice, not chance, out of Isaiah, which he read to them, (ver. 18.) [The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor, (that is, in spirit, the afflicted in conscience for sin) he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, &c.] And when he had read so much as concerned the expressing the compassionate disposition of his spirit unto sinners, (whose misery he sets down by all sorts of outward evils) then he reads no further, but closeth the Book, as intimating, that these were the main effects of that his receiving the Spirit. [The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, [because] he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor:] That is, for this end, or for this very purpose hath he given me his Spirit, because I was designed, or anointed to this work, and by that Spirit also hath he anointed, or qualified me with these gifts and dispositions suitable to that work.