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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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And secondly, that this office doth therefore lay upon Christ a duty to be in all his dispensations full of grace and mercy; and therefore his heart remains most certainly suited and framed thereunto.
And secondly, that this office doth therefore lay upon Christ a duty to be in all his dispensations full of grace and mercie; and therefore his heart remaines most certainly suited and framed thereunto.
For the first. The office of High-Priesthood is altogether an office of grace: And I may call it the Pardon-office, set up and erected by God in heaven; and Christ, he is appointed the Lord and Master of it. And as his Kingly office is an office of power and dominion, and his Prophetical office an office of knowledge and wisdom; so his Priestly office is an office of grace and mercy. The High-Priests office did properly deal in nothing else. If there had not been a Mercy-seat in the Holy of ⟨p. 84⟩Holies, the High-Priest had not at all been appointed to have gone into it. It was Mercy, and Reconciliation, and Atonement for sinners, that he was to treat about, and so to officiate for at the Mercy-seat; He had had otherwise no work, nor any thing to do when he should come into the most holy place. Now this was but a typical allusion unto this office of Christs in heaven. And therefore the Apostle (in the Text) when he speaks of this our High-Priests being entered into heaven, he makes mention of a Throne of grace, and this in answer to that in the Type both of the High-Priest of old, and of the Mercy-seat in the Holy of Holies. And further to confirm this, the Apostle goes on to open that very Type, and to apply it unto Christ, unto this very purpose which we have now in hand: And this in the very next words to my Text, Chap. 5. 1, 2, 3. verses; in which he gives a full description of an High-Priest, and all the properties and requisites that were to be in him, together with the eminent and principal end that that office was ordained for. Now the great and essential qualifications there specified; that were to be in a High-Priest, are Mercy and Grace, and the ends for which he is there said to be ordained, are works of Mercy and Grace. And besides what the words in their single standing do hold forth to this purpose; observe that they come in to back and confirm that exhortation in the Text, wherein he had set forth Christ as an High-Priest touched with the