A85428:79
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.
And to clear it farther, we must conceive, that the Promises of Forgiveness are not as the Pardons of a Prince, which merely contain an expression of his royal word for pardoning, so as we in seeking of it, do rest upon, and have to do only with his word and seal wch we have to show for it: but Gods Promises of pardon are made in his Son, and are as if a Prince should offer to pardon a Traitor upon marriage with his child, whom in, and with that pardon he offers in such a relation; so as all that would have pardon, must first seek out for his child: and thus it is in the matter of believing. The reason of which is, because Christ is the Grand Promise, in whom all the ⟨p. 19⟩Promises are Yea and Amen, 2 Cor. 11. 29. and therefore he is called The Covenant, Isaiah 49. 8. So that, as it were folly for any man to think that he hath an interest in an Heiress lands, because he hath got the writings of her estate into his hands, (whereas the interest in the lands goes with her person, and with the relation of marriage to her; otherwise, without a title to her self, all the writings will be fetched out of his hands again) so is it with all the Promises; they hang all upon Christ, and without him there is no interest to be had in them: He that hath the Son, hath life, John 1. 5, 12. because Life is by Gods appointment only in him, as ver. 11. All the Promises are as Copy-hold land, which when you would interest your selves in, you enquire upon what Lord it holds, and you take it up of him, as well as get the Evidences and Deeds for it into your hands; the Lord if it will be acknowledged for such in passing his right into your hands: Now this is the tenure of all the Promises; they all hold on Christ, in whom they are Yea and Amen; and you must take them up of him. Thus the Apostles preached forgiveness to men, Acts 13. 38. Be it known that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins. And as they preached, so we are to believe, as the Apostle speaks, 1 Cor. 15. 11. And without this, to rest on the bare Promise, or to look to the benefit promised without eying Christ, is not an Evangelical, but a Jewish faith, even such as the Formalists among the Jews had, who without the Messiah