Thomas Goodwin on our reconciliation to God the Father

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Obs. 1. That the Father is the person to whom reconciliation is made. Not but that it is made to the rest also. But,

First, Because he being the first person, the suit against us runs in his name especially, though it be the quarrel of all the rest of the persons, and the injury done against all the rest. Thus in colleges, and such common societies, their suits against others are commenced in some one’s name, as the master’s or the like, whose name is used for the whole; and so this common quarrel and suit of trespass, which the whole Trinity hath against us, is commenced in God the Father’s name for all the rest; and therefore Christ is said to be an ‘advocate with the Father,’ 1 John ii. 1, as the party betrusted to take the atonement, and make an end of the quarrel in the name of all the rest. And, ...

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