A85428:591
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 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.
I shall set it forth three ways:
I shall set it forth three wayes:
1. Negatively. 2. Positively. 3. Privatively.
1. Negatively: It is certain that this affection of sympathy or fellow-feeling in Christ is not in all things such a kind of affection as was in him in the days of his flesh. Which is clear, by what the Apostle speaks of him and of his affections then, Heb. 5. 7. Who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cryings and tears, was heard in that which he feared. Where we see his converse and state of life here below, to be called by way of difference and distinction from what it is now in heaven, [The days of his flesh:] By [flesh] meaning not the substance of the humane nature, for he retains that still; but the frail quality of subjection to mortality, or passibility. So [Flesh] is usually taken; as when all flesh is said to be grass: It is spoken of mans nature, in respect to its being ⟨p. 123⟩subject to a fading, wearing, and decay, by outward casualties, or inward passions. So in this Epistle, Chap. 2. 14. For as much as the children (we his brethren) did partake of flesh and blood, (that is, the frailties of mans nature) he himself also took part of the same. And accordingly the Apostle instanceth in the following words of that 14. verse, as in death, (which in the days of his flesh Christ was subject to) so also in such frail passions and affections as did work a suffering in him, and a wearing and wasting of his spirits; such as passionate sorrow, joined with strong cries and tears, (both which he mentioneth) and also fear, (in those words) [He was heard in that which he feared.] Now these days of his flesh being over and past, (for this was only (as says the Apostle) in the days of his flesh) hence therefore all such concomitant passionate overflowings of sorrow, fear, &c. are ceased therewith, and he is now no way capable of them, or subjected to them.