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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 2: §. II.
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.
1. The continuance of all those near and intimate Relations and alliances unto us of all sorts; which no glory of his, can make any alteration in: and therefore not in his heart and love, nor a declining any respects and offices of love, which such relations do call for at his hands. All relations that are natural, such as between father and child, husband and wife, brother and brother, &c. look what world they are made for, in that world they for ever hold, and can never be dissolved. These fleshly relations indeed do cease in that other world, because they were made only for this world: as Rom. 7. 1. The wife is bound to her husband but so long as he lives: But these relations of Christ unto us, were made in order to the world to come (as the Epistle to the Hebrews calls it:) and therefore are in their full vigour and ⟨p. 71⟩strength, and receive their compleatment therein. Wherefore it is, that Christ is said to be the same to day, yesterday, and for ever, Heb. 13. 8. To illustrate this by the constant & indissoluble tie of those relations of this world, whereto no difference of condition, whether of advancement or debasement, can give any discharge. We see in Joseph when advanced, how as his relations continued, so his affections remained the same to his poor brethren, (who yet had injured him,) and also to his father. So Genes. 45. where in the same speech he mentioneth both his own greatest dignities, and advancement, [God hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and Lord of all his house, and a Ruler throughout all the Land of Egypt:] (so ver. 8.) and yet withal, he forgetteth not his relations, [I am Joseph your brother,] (ver. 4.) even the same man still. And his affections appeared also to be the same; for he wept over them, and could not refrain himself, as you have it, ver. 1, 2. And the like he expresseth to his father, ver. 9. Go to my father, and say, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me Lord over all Egypt, (and yet thy son Joseph still.)
1. The continuance of all those neere and intimate Relations and allyances unto us of all sorts; which no glory of his, can make any alteration in: and therefore not in his heart and love, nor a declining any respects and offices of love, which such relations do call for at his hands. All relations that are naturall, such as between father and child, husband and wife, brother and brother, &c. looke what world they are made for, in that world they for ever hold, and can never be dissolved. These fleshly relations indeed do cease in that other world, because they were made onely for this world: as