A85428:524
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.
2. He is the Subject of all relations, which no creature is. If a man be a husband, yet not a ⟨p. 74⟩father, or a brother; but Christ is all: No one relation being sufficient to express his love, where with he loveth and owneth us. And therefore he calls his Church both Sister and Spouse, Cantic. 5. 1.
2. He is the Subject of all relations, which no creature is. If'a man be a husband, yet not a ⟨p. 74⟩father, or a brother; but Christ is all: No one relation being sufficient to expresse his love, where with he loveth and owneth us. And therefore he calls his Church both Sister and Spouse, Cantic. 5. 1.
3. He is the pattern, and exemplar of all these our relations, and they all are but the copies of his. Thus in Ephes. 5. Christ is made the pattern of the relation and love of husbands; Husbands (says the Apostle) love your wives, as Christ loved his Church, so ver. 25. Yea, ver. 31, 32, 33. the marriage of Adam, & the very words he then spake, of cleaving to a wife, are made but the types and shadows of Christ marriage to his Church. Herein I speak (says he) concerning Christ and the Church: and this is a great mystery. First, a mystery, that is, this marriage of Adam was ordained hiddenly, to represent and signify Christs marriage with his Church. And secondly, it is a great mystery, because the thing thereby signified is in it self so great, that this is but a shadow of it. And therefore all those relations, and the affections of them, and the effects of those affections, which you see and read to have been in men, are all, and were ordained to be (as all things else in this world are) but shadows of what is in Christ; who alone is the truth and substance of all similitudes in nature, as well as of the Ceremonial types.