A85428:613
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
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.
1. Use. 1 Thus that which hath been said may afford us the strongest consolations and encouragements against our sins of any other consideration whatsoever, and may give us the greatest assurance of their being removed off from us, that may be: for,
1. Use. 1 THus that which hath beene said may afford us the strongest consolations and encouragements against our sinnes of any other consideration whatsoever, and may give us the greatest assurance of their being removed off from us, that may be: for,
First, Christ himself suffers (as it were) at least is affected under them, as his enemies, which therefore he will be sure to remove, for his own quiet sake. His heart would not be quiet, but that he knows they shall be removed. As God says in the Prophet, so may Christ say much more, My Bowels are troubled for him, I remember him still. Jeremiah 31. 20.
First, Christ himselfe suffers (as it were) at least is affected under them, as his enemies, which therefore he will be sure to remove, for his owne quiet sake. His heart would not be quiet, but that he knowes they shall be removed. As God sayes in the Prophet, so may Christ say much more, My Bowels are troubled for him, I remember him still. Jeremiah 31. 20.
Secondly, there is comfort concerning such infirmities, in that your very sins move him to pity more then to anger. This text is plain for ⟨p. 138⟩it, for he suffers with us under our infirmities, and by infirmities are meant sins, as well as other miseries, (as was proved) whilst therefore you look on them as infirmities, (as God here looks upon them, and speaks of them in his own) and as your disease, and complain to Christ of them, and do cry out, O miserable man that I am, who shall deliver me? so long fear not. Christ he takes part with you, and is so far from being provoked against you, as all his anger is turned upon your sin to ruin it; yea his pity is increased the more towards you, even as the heart of a father is to a child that hath some loathsome disease, or as one is to a member of his body that hath the leprosy, he hates not the member, for it is his flesh, but the disease, and that provokes him to pity the part affected the more. What shall not make for us, when our sins that are both against Christ and us, shall be turned as motives to him, to pity us the more? The object of pity is one in misery whom we love; and the greater the misery is, the more is the pity, when the party is beloved: Now of all miseries, sin is the greatest; and whilst your selves look at it as such, Christ will look upon it as such only also in you: And he loving your persons, and hating only the sin; his hatred shall all fall, and that only upon the sin to free you of it by its ruin and destruction, but his bowels shall be the more drawn out to you; and this as much when you lie under sin, as under any other affliction. Therefore fear not, What shall separate us from Christs love?