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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.
And secondly, this was also Gods end and intention in ordaining Christs assumption of our nature, which that other place before cited, (namely, Heb. 2. 16, 17.) holds forth; Verily he took not on him the nature of Angels, but the seed of Abraham: That is, an humane nature, and that made too of the same stuff that ours is of, and it behooved him to be made like us in all things, [that] he might be a merciful High-Priest, &c. [[Greek or Hebrew]]. To the end he might become, or be made merciful.
And secondly, this was also Gods end and intention in ordaining Christs assumption of our nature, which that other place before cited, (namely, Heb. 2. 16, 17.) holds forth; Verily he took not on him the nature of Angels, but the seed of Abraham: That is, an humane nature, and that made too of the same stuffe that ours is of, and it behooved him to be made like us in all things, [that] he might bee a mercifull High-Priest, &c. [〈non-Latin alphabet〉]. To the end hee might become, or be made mercifull.
But was not the Son of God as merciful (may some say) without the taking of our nature, as afterwards when he had assumed it? Or is his mercy thereby made larger then of it self it should have been, had he not took the humane nature on him?
But was not the Son of God as mercifull (may some say) without the taking of our nature, as afterwards when he had assumed it? Or is his mercy thereby made larger then of it selfe it should have beene, had he not tooke the humane nature on him?