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Encouragements to faith Drawn from several engagements both of Gods Christs heart to receive…Encouragements to faith Drawn from severall engagements both of Gods Christs heart to receive…
Encouragements to faith Drawn from several engagements both of Gods Christs heart to receive pardon sinners. By Tho: Goodwin, B.D.Encouragements to faith Drawn from severall engagements both of Gods Christs heart to receive pardon sinners. By Tho: Goodwin, B.D.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1645
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.
The main Observation out of the words: Demonstrations of Gods heart herein, from his engagements from everlasting: How his heart stood to sinners afore the world was.
The maine Observation out of the words: Demonstrations of Gods heart herein, from his engagements from everlasting: How his heart stood to sinners afore the world was.
THE Observation, which I single out of these words to insist upon, is this, That
Both God the Father, and Jesus Christ the Son are fully willing, and resolved to save sinners.
Both God the Father, and Iesus Christ the Son are fully willing, and resolved to save sinners.
1. For God the Father, There are many Demonstrations of his will herein, that may be taken ab extra from his Oath, Word, Promise, &c. which I shall handle in another method: but those which I shall first hold forth, are more intimate and Intrinsical, and homogeneall to the argument which Christ useth here in the Text, which we have seen) to be these, that it was Gods will first, and Christs, but because it was his, (I come not to do mine own will,) and that it was he that dealt with Christ about it, and wrought him off to it, and made it his business; (but the will of him that sent me.) So that the Demonstrations which I shall pitch upon, shall be drawn from Gods engagements, both from his transactions with Christ from everlasting, before he came into the world, and those that now lie upon him from Christs having fully performed what he sent him into the world for. And from either may be fetched strong consolations, and confirmations to our faith, that Gods will must needs continue most serious and hearty to save sinners.