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A85428	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.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1642 (1642)	Wing G1232; Thomason E58_2; Thomason E58_3; ESTC R8966	205,646	392

ver 6. Otherwise as that woman said to Philip when she came to him for justice and he put her off Then cease sayes she to be a King So if Christ should deny any such soule to take its cause in hand he must then cease to be a Priest He lives to intercede He is a Priest called by God as was Aaron ver 6. Wherefore he ought to doe it in that it is his office 3. And if thy soule yet feareth the difficulty of its owne particular case in respect of the greatnesse of thy sinnes and the circumstances thereof or any consideration whatsoever which to thy view doth make thy salvation an hard suit to obtaine the Apostle therefore further addes He is able to save to the utmost what ever thy cause be and this through this his Intercession That same word to the utmost is a good word and vvell put in for our comfort Consider it therefore for it is a reaching vvord and extends it selfe so farre that thou canst not look beyond it Let thy soule be set upon the highest mount that ever any creature vvas yet set upon and that is enlarged to take in and view the most spacious prospect both of sinne and misery and difficulties of being saved that ever yet any poore humbled soule did cast within it selfe yea joyne to these all the objections and hinderances of thy Salvation that the heart of man can suppose or invent against it selfe lift up thy eyes and looke to the utmost thou canst see and Christ by his Intercession is able to save thee beyond the Horizon and furthest compasse of thy thoughts even to the utmost and worst case the heart of Man can suppose It is not thy having laine long in Sinne long under terrours and despairs or having sinned often after many enlightnings that can hinder thee from being saved by Christ Do but remember this same word to the utmost and then put in what exceptions thou wilt or canst lay all the barrs in thy way that are imaginable yet know thou that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against thee 4. Again consider but what it is that Christ who hath by his death done enough to save thee doth yet further for thee in Heaven If thou thoughtest thou hadst all the Saints in Heaven and Earth jointly concurring in promoving thy salvation and competitours unto God in instant and incessant requests and prayers to save thee how wouldest thou be encouraged shall I tell thee one word out of Christs mouth who is the King of Saints will do more then all in heaven and earth can doe and what is there then which we may not hope to obtain through his Intercession And wouldst thou know whether he hath undertaken thy cause and begun to intercede for thee In a word Hath he put his spirit into thy heart and set thy own heart on work to make incessant Intercessions for thy selfe with groans unutterable as the Apostle hath it Rom. 8. This is the Eccho of Christs Intercession for thee in Heaven 5. And lastly If such a soule shall further object But will he not give over suing for me may I not be cast out of his prayers through my unbeliefe Let it here be considered that he lives ever to intercede And therefore if he once undertake thy cause and getteth thee into his prayers he will never leave thee out night nor day He Intercedeth ever till he hath accomplisht and finished thy salvation Men have been cast out of good and holy mens prayers as Saul out of Samuels and the People of Israel out of Ieremies but never out of Christs prayers the smoak of his Incense ascends for ever and he will intercede to the utmost till he hath saved thee to the utmost He will never give over but will lye in the dust for thee or he will perfect and procure thy Salvation Onely whilst I am thus raising up your Faith to him upon the worke of his Intercession for us let me speak a word to you for him so to stir up your love to him upon the consideration of this his Intercession also You see you have the whole life of Christ first and last both here and in heaven laid out for you He had not come to earth but for you he had no other businesse here Vnto us a Son is born And to be sure he had not dyed but for you for us a Son was given and when he rose it was for your justification And now he is gone to heaven he lives but to intercede for you He makes your salvation his constant calling O therefore let us live wholly unto him for he hath and doth live wholly unto us You have his whole time among you and if he were your servant you could desire no more There was much of your time lost before you began to live to him but there hath beene no moment of his time which he hath not lived to and improved for you Nor are you able ever to live for him but onely in this life for hereafter you shall live with him and be glorified of him I conclude all with that of the Apostle The love of Christ it should constraine us because we cannot but judge this to be the most equall that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him who dyed for them and rose again and out of the Text I also adde sits at Gods right hand yea and there lives for ever to make Intercession for us FINIS THE HEART OF Christ in Heaven Towards SINNERS on Earth OR A TREATISE DEMONSTRATING The gracious Disposition and tender Affection of Christ in his Humane Nature now in Glory unto his Members under all sorts of Infirmities either of Sin or Misery By THO GOODWIN B. D. LONDON Printed for R. DAWLMAN M DC XLII THE TABLE OF The Heart of Christ in Heaven towards Sinners on Earth 1. Demonstrations of the gracious disposition of his Heart towards us Extrinsecall shewing the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it is so Part 1. Intrinsecall shewing the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Reasons why it must needs be so Part 2. 2. The Manner how his Heart is affected towards us and the way how it comes to passe that such affections are let into his heart Part 3. Part I. Containing Demonstrations Extrinsecall §. I. Demonstrations from Christs carriage at his last Farewell and his last Sermon John Chapters 13 c. and in his last prayer John 17. the scope of all which was to assure his Disciples of his being constant in his Affections towards them 5 1. From his carriage at his last Fare-well And this in foure things 6 2. From many passages in that his last Sermon in 5. things 13 3. From his last Prayer Joh. 17. which Prayer is a patterne of his Intercession in Heaven and so an expression of what his heart is there 22 §. II. Demonstrations from many passages and expressions after his Resurrection 24 This Resurrection

deals with Mercy Therefore all the Grace he bestows on us he is said first to receive it even now when in heaven Acts 2. 33. it is said of him after his going to heaven and that he was exalted c. that he received the promise of the Spirit which Ioh. 14. 16. he told them he would pray for And this is part of the meaning of that in Psal 68. 18. He ascended up on high and received gifts for men sayes the Psalmist The Apostle renders it Ephes 4. gave but you see it was by receiving them first as fruits of his Intercession and asking after his ascending He is said both to give as being all of his own purchase and as having power as a King also both to doe and bestow all he doth and yet withall he is said to receive all that he gives because as a Priest he intercedes for it and asks it Free grace requires this This is the first thing Yea 2. Gods justice stood upon it Secondly Justice it selfe might stand a little upon it though there was enough in Christ his death to satisfie it yet having been wronged it stood thus far upon it as those to whom a debt is due use to doe namely to have the money brought home to Gods dwelling house and laid downe there God is resolved not to stoope one whit unto man no nor to Christ his Surety Justice will not onely be satisfied and have a sufficient ransome collected and paid as at Christs death but he must come and bring his bags up to heaven justice will be paid it upon the Mercie-seate For so in the Type the blood was to be carried into the Holy of holies and sprinkled upon the Mercie-seat And therefore his Resurrection Ascension c. were but as the breaking through all enemies subduing them to the end to bring this price or satisfaction to the Mercie-seat and so God having his money by him might not want wherewithall to pardon Sinners so as the blood of Christ is currant money not only on earth but in heaven too whither all is brought which is for our comfort that all the treasure which should satisfie God is safely conveyed thither and our Surety with it The second sort of reasons why God ordained Christs intercession to be joyned to his Death Second sort of reasons it was best for the effecting our Salvation are taken from what was the best way to effect and make sure our salvation and secure our hearts therein and these reasons will shew the peculiar influence that Intercession hath into our Salvation and therein as in the former First in generall God would have our salvation made sure and us saved all manner of wayes over and over 1 1. In generall God would have us saved all manner of wayes By ransome and price as Captives are redeemed which was done by his Death which of it selfe was enough for it is said Heb. 10. to perfect us for ever 2 2. The Application of Redemption to us from Christs Intercession By power and rescue so in his Resurrection and Ascension and sitting at Gods right hand which also was sufficient Then 3 3. More particularly our justification depends on it again by Intercession a way of favour and entreaty and this likewise would have beene enough but God would have all wayes concurre in it whereof notwithstanding not one could fail a three fold cord whereof each twine were strong enough but all together must of necessity hold Secondly The whole Application of his redemption both in justifying and saving of us first and last hath a speciall dependance upon this his Intercession This all Divines on all sides doe attribute unto it whilst they put this difference betweene the influence of his death and that of his intercession into our salvation calling his death Medium impetrationis that is the meanes of procurement or obtaining it for us But his intercession Medium applicationis the Meanes of applying all unto us Christ purchaseth salvation by the one but possesseth us of it by the other Some have attributed the Application of Iustification to his Resurrerection but it is much more proper to ascribe it to his Intercession and what causall influence his Resurrection hath into our Iustification hath been afore in the third Section declared But that his eternall Priesthood in heaven and the work of its Intercession is the applying cause of our eternall salvation in all the parts of it first and last seems to me to be the result of the connexion of the 8 9 and 10. verses of the 5. Chap. to the Hebrews For having spoken of his obedience and sufferings unto death ver 8. and how he thereby was made perfect ver 9. he sayes And being thus first made perfect he became the Author or applying cause 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of eternall salvation unto all them that obey him and this by his being become an eternall Priest in heaven after he was thus perfected by sufferings for so it follows ver 10. Called of God an High-priest after the order of Melchisedech And Melchisedechs Priesthood was principally the type of his Priesthood in heaven as was before declared One leading instance to shew that his Intercession was to be the applying cause of salvation was given by Christ whilst he was on earth thereby manifesting what much more was to be done by him in heaven through his Intercession there when he was on the Crosse and as then offering that great sacrifice for sin he at that time also joyned prayers for the justification of those that crucified him Father forgive them for they know not what they doe So fulfilling that in Esay 53. ult He bare the sins of many and made Intercession for the transgressours And the efficacie of that prayer then put up was the cause of the conversion of those three thousand Acts 2. whom ver 35. the Apostle had expresly charged with the crucifying of Christ whom ye by wicked hands have taken crucified and slaine These were the first fruits of his Intercession whose prayers still doe reap and bring in the rest of the crop which in all ages is to grow up unto God on earth 3. And more particularly as the whole Application in generall so our Iustification in the whole progresse of it depends upon Christs Intercession As 1. 1 The first act of our justification and our conversion depends upon it Our first actuall or initiall Iustification which is given us at our first conversion depends upon Christs Intercession Therefore in the fore-mentioned prayer on the Crosse the thing he prayed for was Forgivenes Father forgive them You heard before that Christs death affords the matter of our justification as being that which is imputed the ransome the price the thing it self that satisfies And that his Resurrection was the originall act of Gods justifying us in Christ We were virtually justified then in Christ his being justifyed as in a Common Person But

Christ but then his life and Intercession or living to intercede is said to keep God and us friends that we may never fall out more What Christ did on earth doth more especially procure reconciliation for sinnes which we doe in the state of nature so as notwithstanding them God resolves to turne us from that state Intercession principally intended for sins after conversion and draw us to Christ But sins which we commit after conversion though pardoned also by his death yet the pardon of them is more especially attributed to his life and intercession as a daily preservative a continuall plaister as some call it to heale such sinnes So that it would seeme that God out of his eternall love doth bring us to Christ and draws us to him through the beholding the reconciliation wrought by his death and so gives us at first conversion unto Christ and we being brought to him he sprinkles us with his bloud and then God sayes to him Now doe you look to them that they and I fall out no more And to that end Christ takes our cause in hand by that eternall Priesthood of his and from that time begins more especially to intercede for us And thus sinnes after the state of grace may be said more eminently to be taken away by that part of his Priesthood which he now in heaven performes That place also 1 Ioh. 2. 1 2. seems to make this the great end of Intercession If any man sinne that is if any of the company of Beleevers to whom alone he wrote we have an Advocate wich the Father so as Intercession principally serves for sins to come or committed after grace received Thus also in his prayer Ioh. 17. which was left as a patterne of his Intercession in heaven he prayes for his Elect as Beleevers I pray for them that shall beleeve through their word Not but that sinnes after conversion are taken away by his death In what sense his Death doth more eminently prevaile for the pardon of sins afore conversion and his Intercession for sins after and sinnes before it by his Intercession also for Christ interceded for those who crucified him and by vertue of that Intercession those three thousand were converted as was observed But the meaning only is that yet more eminently the work of reconciliation for sins before conversion is attributed to his death for sins after conversion to his Intercession Even as the Persons of the Trinity though they have all a like hand in all the works of our salvation yet we see that one part is attributed more to one Person and another to another A third sort of reasons why God ordained this work of Intercession to accomplish our salvation by 3. Sort of Reasons from Christ doe respect Christ himselfe whose honour and glory and the perpetuation of it in our hearts God had as well in his eye in the ordering all the workings of our salvation as much as his owne That all might honour the Sonne as well as the Father as Christ himselfe speaks Now therefore for the maintaining and upholding his glory and the commings in thereof did God ordaine after all that he had done for us here below this work of Intercession in heaven to be added to all the rest for the perfecting of our salvation As First 1. That none of Christs offices should lye vacant it became him and was for his honour that none of his offices should be vacant or lye idle and he want employment in them All offices have work to accompanie them and all work hath honour as its reward to arise out of it And therefore when he had done all that was to be done on earth as appertaining unto the merit of our salvation he appoints this full and perpetuall work in heaven for the applying and possessing us of salvation and that as a Priest by praying and interceding in the merit of that one oblation of himselfe God would have Christ never to be out of office nor out of work And this very reason is more then intimated Heb. 7. 24 25. This man because he continueth ever hath an unchangeable Priest-hood or as ver 21. expounds it for ever And the work of his Priesthood is interpreted ver 25. to be ever to make intercession The meaning is that God would not have him continue to be a Priest in title onely or in respect onely of a service past and so to have onely the honour of Priesthood perpetuated to him out of the remembrance of what he once had done as great Generals have even in time of peace the glory of some great battail fought continued to them in their titles or rewards for ever But God would have him have as the renowne of the old so a perpetuall spring of honour by new work and employment in that office which he is continually a doing so to preserve the verdure of his glory ever fresh and greene and therefore ordained a continuall work for him And the summe of the Apostles reasoning is this That seeing himselfe was to be for ever so should his work and Priesthood be that so his honour might be for ever So ver 28. concludes it Consecrated or perfected for evermore Secondly 2. That Christ might have a continual hand in each and every work of our salvation to the last for the same reason also it became him that the whole worke of our salvation first and last and every part of it every step and degree of accomplishment of it should be so ordered as he should continue still to have as great and continuall a hand in every part even to the laying of the top stone thereof as he had in laying the first foundation and corner stone thereof And this you have expressed Heb. 12. 2. Looking to Iesus the beginner and perfecter of our faith Two things had been said of him as two causes of two effects and we must looke to him in both 1. He is to be looked at as Dying enduring the Crosse as there he is set forth 2. As sitting at Gods right hand and interceding as that whole Epistle had represented him We are to look at these two as causes of a double effect to looke at his dying as that which is the beginning of our faith so according to the Greeke and the margent of our translation and at his sitting at Gods right hand as an intercessor for the finishing of our faith thereby and so of our finall salvation For as Christs worke began in his life and death which is put for all his obedience here below so our first believing as was said begins by vertue of his death at first and as his worke ends in his intercession and sitting at God his right hand so answerably is our faith and salvation perfected by it that thus he might be left out in nothing but be the Alpha and Omega the Beginning and the Ending to whom be glory for ever So that wee

of many things about Intercession And which I would also commend to and leave with poore Beleevers to have recourse unto for their comfort as a sufficient Abundary of Consolation unto their Soules and as a Catholicon or universall Cordiall against all faintings and misgivings of spirit whatsoever In the words observe 1. A Definition of Faith by the lowest acts of it for the comfort of weake Christians 2. Encouragements unto such a Faith opposite to all misgivings and discouragements whatsoever 1. A Definition of Faith and such as will suit the weakest Beleever It is a comming unto God by Christ for Salvation 1. It is a comming to be saved Let not the want of Assurance that God will save thee or that Christ is thine discourage thee if thou hast but a heart to Come to God by Christ to be saved though thou knowest not whether he will yet save thee or no. Remember that the Beleevers of the New Testament are here described to be commers to God by Christ Such as goe out of themselves and rest in nothing in themselves do come unto God through Christ for Salvation though with trembling 2. It is a Comming unto God For he is the ultimate object of our Faith and the person with whom we have to do in believing from whom we are to receive Salvation if ever we obtaine it 3. It is a Comming unto God by Christ which Phrase is used in this Epistle in an allusion to the worshipers of the Old Testament who when they had sinned were directed to go to God by a Priest who with a Sacrifice made an Atonement for them Now Christ is the great and true High-Priest by whom we have accesse to the Father 2. Ephes 18. The word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a leading by the hand Doest thou not know how to appeare before God or to come to him come first to Christ and he will take thee by the hand and go along with thee and leade thee to His Father 4. It is a comming unto God by Christ for Salvation Many a poore soule is apt to thinke that in comming to God by Faith it must not aime at it selfe or its own Salvation yes it may for that is here made the errand or businesse which faith hath with God in comming to him or which it comes for and this is secretly couched in these words for the Apostle speaking of the very aime of the heart in comming he therefore on purpose mentions Christs ability to save He is able to save Secondly Here are many encouragements to such a Faith as is not yet grown up unto assurance of Salvation 1. Here is the most suitable object propounded unto it namely Christ as Interceding which work of Intercession because it remains for Christ as yet to doe for a soule that is to be saved and which he is every day a doing for us therefore it is more peculiarly fitted unto a Recumbents Faith For when such a soule comes and casts it selfe upon Christ That thing in Christ which must needs most suit that kind of Act is that which is yet to be done by Christ for that soule Now for that soule to come to Christ to die for it and offer up himselfe a Sacrifice as Sinners did use to come to the High-Priest to sacrifice for them this were bootlesse for as it is ver 27. he hath at once done that already And as for what is already past and done such a beleevers faith is oftentimes exceedingly puzled what manner of act to put forth towards Christ about it as for example when it is about to come unto God it heares of an Election of some unto salvation from all eternity made by him because this is an act already past by God the soule knows it to be in vain to cast it selfe upon God for Election or to come unto him to elect choose it selfe And so in like manner when the soule lookes upon Christs Death because it is done and past it knowes not how to take it in in beleeving when it wanteth assurance that Christ dyed for it though it should come to Christ to bee saved by vertue of his death But there is this one worke that remaines still to be done by him for us and which he is daily a doing and that is Interceding for he lives ever to Intercede or to pray for us in the strength and merit of that his Sacrifice once offered up This therefore is more directly peculiarly fitted unto a Faith of Recumbency or of Comming unto Christ the proper act of such a Faith as it is distinguished from Faith of Assurance being a casting ones selfe upon Christ for some thing it would have done or wrought for one Hence Intercession becomes a fit object for the aime and errand of such a Faith in this its comming to Christ as also to be saved is it being a thing yet to bee wrought and accomplisht for me by Christ is therefore a fit marke for such a Faith to levell at in its comming to Christ Those Acts of God and Christ which are past Faith of Assurance doth more easily comply with such a Faith takes in with comfort that Christ hath dyed for me and risen again and doth now Intercede for me and so I shall certainly be saved but so cannot this weake faith doe Come thou therefore unto Christ as to save thee through his Death past and by the merit of it so for the present and for the time to come to take thy Cause in hand and to Intercede for thee it is a great reliefe unto such a Faith as cannot put forth Acts of Assurance that what hath beene done by Christ hath been done for it that God hath left Christ this work yet to doe for us So as the Intercession of Christ may afford matter to such a Faith to throw it selfe upon Christ to performe it for us and it may set him aworke to doe it 2. Now if such a soule aske But will Christ upon my comming to him for salvation be set avvork to intercede for mee and undertake my cause I ansvver it out of those vvords He lives to intercede for them who come to God by him He lives on purpose to performe this vvork it is the end of his living the businesse of his life And as he received a commandment to dye and it was the end of his life on earth so he hath received a command to intercede and to be a common High-Priest for all that come to God by him God hath appointed him to this work by an oath He sware and would not repent Thou shalt be a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech and this is the end of his life in heaven That as in the Old Law the High-priest Christs type in this ought to offer up the sacrifice of every one that came unto God by him as HEB. 5. 5. in like manner Christ for it is his calling as you have it