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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
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.
For Explication hereof.1
- 1Exlplained.
First,1 in some sense he had a faith for Justification like unto ours, though not a Justification through faith, as we have. He went not, indeed, out of himself, to rely to another for righteousness, ⟨p. 3⟩for he had enough of his own (he being The Lord our righteousness:) yet he believes on God to justify him, and had recourse to God for justification: He is near (says he) that justifies me. If he had stood in his own person merely, and upon his own bottom only, there had been no occasion for such a speech; and yet consider him as he stood in our stead, there was: for what need of such a Justification, if he had not been some way near a condemnation? He therefore must be supposed to stand here (in Isaiah) at Gods Tribunal, as well as at Pilates, with all our sins upon him: And so the same Prophet tells us Ch. 53. 6. God made the iniquities of us to meet on him. He was now made sin, and a curse, and stood not in danger of Pilates condemnation only, but of Gods too, unless he satisfied him for all those sins. And when the wrath of God for sin came thus in upon him, his faith was put to it, to trust & wait on him for his Justification, for to take off all those sins, together with his wrath from off him, and to acknowledge himself satisfied, & him acquitted. Therefore in the 22. Ps. (which was made for Christ when hanging on the Cross, and speaks how his heart was taken up that while) he is brought in as putting forth such a faith as here we speak of, when he called God his God, [My God my God] then, whenas to his sense, he had forsaken him, [why hast thou forsaken me?] Yea he helped his faith with the faith of the Fore-fathers, whom upon their trust in him God had delivered: Our Fathers, (says he) trusted in thee; they trusted and thou didst deliver them: Yea, at the 5. v. we find him laying himself ⟨p. 4⟩