A Child of Light Walking in Darkness
Thomas Goodwin
Public DomainPuritans
Chapters 24
- TO THE READER ≈ 3 min
- PART I: A PARAPHRASE UPON THE WORDS (ISA. 50:10, 11) ≈ 8 min
- CHAPTER I: The first and main observation: That a child of God may walk in darkness ≈ 10 min
- CHAPTER II: The two phrases, 'walking in darkness,' 'having no light,' ≈ 20 min
- CHAPTER III: The efficient causes of this distress ≈ 16 min
- CHAPTER IV: How Satan and our hearts increase this darkness and distress ≈ 10 min
- CHAPTER V: The second efficient cause of this darkness ≈ 34 min
- CHAPTER VI: The third efficient cause - Satan: his special malice in this temptation, commission ≈ 28 min
- CHAPTER VII: More particularly how Satan works upon those three principles in us: first, on carnal r ≈ 29 min
- CHAPTER VIII: That Satan is able to work upon that other corrupt principle in us ≈ 60 min
- CHAPTER IX: How able Satan is to work upon that third principle, the passions and corrupt affections ≈ 32 min
- CHAPTER X: The conclusion: seven advantages, in common, which Satan hath over us in all these his de ≈ 14 min
- CHAPTER XI: The cases wherein God leaves his unto darkness ≈ 14 min
- CHAPTER XII: The cases ordinary wherein God doth leave his in darkness ≈ 41 min
- CHAPTER XIII: The ends for which God leaveth to darkness ≈ 14 min
- CHAPTER XIV: A second sort of ends for the trial and discovery of graces, especially of faith ≈ 11 min
- CHAPTER XV: Six ends more ≈ 5 min
- PART II: Uses ≈ 8 min
- USE II.—To those that are translated from darkness into light, and yet never thus walked in darkness ≈ 8 min
- USE III.—To those that have been in darkness, and are now recovered out of it ≈ 5 min
- USE IV.—To such as fear God, and walk in darkness ≈ 12 min
- TEN DIRECTIONS for those who are more deeply troubled; and means to be used how to recover light ≈ 56 min
- SECTION II: Other observations out of the 10th verse ≈ 16 min
- A Child of Darkness Walking in Light ≈ 27 min
| Author | Thomas Goodwin |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Era | 1600s |
| Categories | Puritans · Christian Classics |
| Length | 24 chapters · ≈ 8 h 1 min read |
| Formats | Web Book · PDF |
| Status | Public Domain |
Public Domain.
