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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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much more will he be so if he be Father to the Patient, (so as his own life and comfort are bound up in that of the child's) or when much of his estate and comings in are from the life of the party unto whom he ministers physic: In such a case they shall be sure to want for no care and cost, and to lack no Cordials that will comfort them, no means that will cure them, and keep them healthful, and no fit diet that may nourish and strengthen them. ⟨p. 97⟩As the care of that Prince of the Eunuchs, in the first of Daniel, was, to have those children committed to his charge, to eat and drink of the best, because that on their looks and good liking his place depended: Now so God hath ordered it, even for an everlasting obligation of Christs heart unto us, that his giving grace, mercy, and comfort to us, is one great part of his glory, and of the revenue of his happiness in heaven, and of his inheritance there.
much more will he be so if he be Father to the Patient, (so as his own life and comfort are bound up in that of the childs) or when much of his estate and commings in are from the life of the party unto whom he ministers physick: In such a case they shall be sure to want for no care and cost, and to lack no Cordials that will comfort them, no means that will cure them, and keep them healthfull, and no fit diet that may nourish and strengthen them. ⟨p. 97⟩As the care of that Prince of the Eunuchs, in the first of Daniel, was, to have those children committed to his charge, to eat and drink of the best, because that on their looks and good liking his place depended: Now so God hath ordered it, even for an everlasting obligation of Christs heart unto us, that his giving grace, mercy, and comfort to us, is one great part of his glory, and of the revenue of his happinesse in heaven, and of his inheritance there.
First, to explain how this may be, consider, That the Humane nature of Christ in heaven hath a double capacity of glory, happiness, and delight; One in that near fellowship and communion with his Father, and the other Persons, through his personal union with the Godhead. Which joy of his in this fellowship, Christ himself speaks of,