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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 3 › Section 1: §. I.
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Now the Angels being fellow-servants with us, (as the Angel called himself, Rev. 22. 9.) they have affections towards us more assimilated unto ours then God hath; and so are more capable of such impressions from our miseries, then God is. Although they be Spirits, yet they partake of something analogical, or resembling and answering to those affections of pity, grief, &c. which are in us. And indeed, so far as these affections are seated in our souls, and not drenched in the passions of the body, (unto which our souls are united) they are the very same kind of affections in us, that are in them. Hence the same lusts that are in men, are said to be in devils, John 8. 44. and therefore the devils also are said to fear and tremble, &c. And so (oppositely) the same affections that are in men, so far as they are spiritual, and the spirit or soul is the seat of them, they must needs be found in the good Angels. But Christ having an humane nature, the same for substance that ours is, consisting both of soul and body, although through glory made spiritual, yet not become ⟨p. 115⟩a Spirit, (A Spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have, says Christ of himself, after his Resurrection, Luke 24. 39.) therefore he must need, have affections towards us yet more, like to these of ours then those are which the Angels have. So then by these two steps we have gained these two things, That even in Christs humane nature, (though glorified) affections of pity and compassion are true and real, and not metaphorically attributed to him as they are unto God; and also more near and like unto ours here then those in the Angels are; even affections proper to mans nature, and truly humane. And these he should have had, although this humane nature had from the very first assumption of it been as glorious as it is now in heaven.
Now the Angels being fellow-servants with us, (as the Angel called himself, Rev. 22. 9.) they have affections towards us more assimilated unto ours then God hath; and so are more capable of such impressions from our miseries, then God is. Although they be Spirits, yet they partake of something analogicall, or resembling and answering to those affections of pity, griefe, &c. which are in us. And indeed, so far as these affections are seated in our soules, and not drencht in the passions of the body, (unto which our soules are united) they are the very same kind of affections in us, that are in them. Hence the same lusts that are in men, are said to be in devils,