Front matter
A Discourse of Election By Thomas Goodwin
Table of Contents BOOK I: Wherein is proved the necessity of an election grace -- CHAPTER I: The necessity of an election
-- CHAPTER II: That there is an election of grace, with a nonelection or passing by others
-- CHAPTER III: God hath made an election of same out of pure grace, with a non-election of others, proved by the story of all ages of the world -- CHAPTER IV: The instance of Noah, and his being saved in an ark, and God's covenant made with him BOOK II: Of the order of God's decrees about man's election and reprobation.
-- CHAPTER I: That God had a respect unto man considered as unfallen, in his election of him unto the end
-- CHAPTER II: A brief draught of the order of Christ's election -- CHAPTER III: termination of election is God's choosing us to himself
-- CHAPTER IV: That our union with God the Father, and Christ, proved from John seventeen -- CHAPTER V: The infinity of grace and condescension in God, to ordain such an union and communion with himself of us his creatures -- CHAPTER VI: The primordial motives in the heart of God, for union of creatures with himself -- CHAPTER VII: The oneness and intimacy of communion which the Trinity the motive of God's ordaining us unto union with himself.
BOOK III: The infinity of grace in God's choosing us, proved from the nature of election, -- CHAPTER I: The grace of electing us simply considered
-- CHAPTER II: The infinity of grace in God's electing us, discovered by a comparison of it with the other act of reprobation -- CHAPTER III: The infinity of grace in electing us
-- CHAPTER IV: Of the common condition of the elect, and rejected, in the fallen estate of mankind
-- CHAPTER V: The infinite grace of God in election, by a view of the particular conditions of elect -- CHAPTER VI: The grace of election illustrated in one particular, the most eminent demonstration of it
-- CHAPTER VII: A brief exposition of Jude, by way of confirmation of the precedent doctrine
BOOK IV: The mighty and powerful grace which God dispenses to his elect -- CHAPTER I: The explication of the words.—What it is for God to be a God of grace -- CHAPTER II: He gives supplies of grace proportionably to the needs, distresses, and temptations unto which his elect
-- CHAPTER III: God is the God of all grace, with a discrimination to us, not to others -- CHAPTER IV: Effectual calling the fruit of election grace
-- CHAPTER V: Our first calling God hath shewn himself a God of all grace -- CHAPTER VI: God's calling us unto his eternal glory is an investing us with a right to heaven -- CHAPTER VII: The security that Jesus Christ gives us to be strengthened, and enabled to persevere -- CHAPTER VIII: What security the consideration of Christ's person affords to our faith that we shall be strengthened to persevere unto the end -- CHAPTER IX: The engagements of Christ, and his interest to preserve us -- CHAPTER X: The engagement on Christ's part for our preservation, that ariseth from his interest in that glory we are by him called into.
-- CHAPTER XI: The engagement of God and Christ by promise for the carrying on his truly called ones through all temptations unto eternal glory
-- CHAPTER XII: Four words, perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you -- CHAPTER XIII: That this promise of perfecting extends to another case of decayed Christians -- CHAPTER XIV: What sufferings we must necessarily undergo before that God settles and strengthens us in any eminent manner -- CHAPTER XV: The actual performance of those promises of perfecting, stablishing, strengthening, settling us.
-- CHAPTER XVI: That the decrees of God in election are of such sure efficacy that we may be ascertained of their infallible performance BOOK V: Election, in the ordinary course of it, runs in a line of succession from believing parents to their posterity.
-- CHAPTER I: The children of godly parents called the inheritance of the Lord -- CHAPTER II: That this covenant is derived unto the churches of the Gentiles -- CHAPTER III: A comparing the 1 Cor. 7:14, with the fore-cited
Rom. 11:16.
-- CHAPTER IV: A larger explication of 1 COR. 7:14
-- CHAPTER V: Reasons drawn out of that foregoing exposition of 1 Cor. 7:14
-- CHAPTER VI: That two things are intended in that text of 1 Cor. 7:14.