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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 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.
seeing he hath taken up our whole nature, on purpose to subserve his Divine nature in all the executions of it?
But now, how far (in our apprehensions of this) we are to cut off the weakness and frailty of such affections as in the days of his flesh was in them, and how exactly to difference those which Christ had here, and those which he hath in heaven, therein lies the difficulty; and I can speak but little unto it.
But now, how far (in our apprehensions of this) we are to cut off the weaknesse and frailty of such affections as in the dayes of his flesh was in them, and how exactly to difference those which Christ had here, and those which he hath in heaven, therein lyes the difficulty; and I can speak but little unto it.
Yet first, this we may lay down as an undoubted Maxim, That so far, or in what sense his Body it self is made spiritual, (as it is called, 1 Cor. 15. 44.) so far, and in that sense all such affections as thus working in his Body are made spiritual; and that in an opposition to that fleshly and frail way of their working here. But then, as his Body is made spiritual, not Spirit, (spiritual in respect of power, and likeness to a Spirit, not in respect of substance or nature) so these affections of pity and compassion do work not only in his Spirit or Soul, but in his Body too, as their seat and instrument, though in a more spiritual way of working, and more like to that of Spirits, then those in a fleshly frail body are. They are not wholly spiritual in this sense, that the soul is the sole subject of them, and that it draws up all such workings into it self: so that that should ⟨p. 126⟩