Tom left a portion of this quote in the comments to a previous post. It’s worth pulling out.

This originates from Thomas Goodwin’s [1600-1680] excellent book, Christ the Mediator. Note how carefully his cross-centerness focuses both on what Christ has done and what he continues to do. Beautiful in balance!

Rest on Christ alone, especially as crucified. Paul desired to know Christ, and him crucified especially. As they preached so are we to believe. It is the serpent as lifted up that is the object of faith, so Christ present in the sacrament, not simply the person of Christ, but Christ as crucified and as broken for our sins. Otherwise Christ, considered in the excellency of his person, so he might be an object for the faith of angels, who would have been glad of such a husband; but Christ, as crucified, so he is fitted for sinners, and he becomes not an object of love for the excellency of his person, but of faith and confidence as a means and ordinance for the salvation of sinners; and though we are to look on him as glorified, yet withal as once crucified. So that faith is to look at once with one eye to heaven, to Christ there as risen, ascended, interceding, so to look down with another eye to that Christ as once crucified and hanging on the cross, as made sin and a curse.

-Thomas Goodwin, Christ the Mediator in The Works: Volume 5 (RHB) p. 292.

The entire chapter—the uses of the cross—is worth reading. See pages 286-295 here. Thank you TB for this gem of a quote from an often neglected cross-centered puritan!