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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.
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If therefore no advancement doth or ought to alter such relations in men, then not in Christ. He is not ashamed to call us brethren; as Heb. 2. 11. And yet the Apostle had just before said of him, v. 9. We see ⟨p. 75⟩Jesus crowned with glory & honour. Yea & as when one member suffers, the rest are touched with a sympathy, so is it with Christ. Paul persecuted the Saints, the members, and why persecutest thou me? cries the Head in heaven: the foot was trodden on, but the Head felt it, though crowned with glory and honour. We are flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bone, Ephes. 5. 30. & therefore as Esther said, so says Christ, How can I endure to see the evil that befalls my people? If a husband hath a wife that is mean, and he become a King, it were his glory and not his shame to advance her; yea, it were his shame to neglect her: especially, if when the betrothment was first made, she was then rich and glorious, and a Kings daughter, but since that, fallen into poverty and misery. Now Christs Spouse, though now she be fallen into sin and misery, yet when she was first given to Christ by God the Father, (who from all eternity made the match) she was looked upon as all glorious. For in election, at first, both Christ and we were by God considered in that glory which he means to bring him and us unto at last; that being first in Gods intention, which is last in execution. For God at the beginning doth look at the end of his works, and at what he means to make them. And so, he then primitively intending to make us thus glorious as we shall be, he brought and presented us to his Son in that glass of his Decrees, under that face of glory wherewith at last he meant to endow us. He showed us to him as apparelled with all those jewels of grace and ⟨p. 76⟩glory which we shall wear in heaven; he did this then, even as he brought Eve unto Adam, whose marriage was in all the type of this: so that as this was the first Idea that God took us up in, and that we appeared in before him, so also wherein he presented us then to Christ, and (as it were) said, such a wife will I give thee. And as such did the second Person marry us; and undertook to bring us to that estate.