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NICHOL S SERIES OF STANDARD DIVINES,
PURITAN PERIOD.
THE
WORKS OF THOMAS GOODWIN, DD,
VOL. VII.
COUNCIL OF PUBLICATION.
W. LINDSAY ALEXANDER, D.D., Professor of Theology, Congregational
Union, Edinburgh.
JAMES BEGG, D.D., Minister of Newington Free Church, Edinburgh. THOMAS J. CRAWFORD, D.D., S.T.P., Professor of Divinity, University,
Edinburgh.
D. T. K. DRUMMOND, M.A., Minister of St Thomas s Episcopal Church,
Edinburgh. WILLIAM H. GOOLD, D.D., Professor of Biblical Literature and Church
History, Reformed Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh. ANDREW THOMSON, D.D., Minister of Broughton Place United Presby
terian Church, Edinburgh.
(Srnrral tutor.
REV. THOMAS SMITH, M.A., EDINBURGH.
THE WORKS
THOMAS GOODWIN, D.D.,
SOMETIME PRESIDENT OF MAGDALENE COLLEGE, OXFORD.
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BY JOHN C. MILLER, D.D.,
MN COL* COLLEGE ; HONORARY CAXON OF WORCESTER; RECTOR OF 8T MARTIN S, BIRKIJCHAM.
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BY ROBERT HALLEY, D.D.,
PRINCIPAL OF THE INDEPENDENT NEW COLLKGE, LONDON.
VOL. VII.
CONTAINING I
OF THE CEEATURES, AND THE CONDITION OF THEIR STATE BY CREATION-
OP GOSPEL HOLINESS IN THE HEART AND LIFE
OF THE BLESSED STATE OF GLORY WHICH THE SAINTS POSSESS AFTER DEATH-
THREE SEVERAL AGES OF CHRISTIANS IN FAITH AND OBEDIENCE
MAN S RESTORATION BY GRACE ON REPENTANCE.
EDINBURGH : JAMES NICHOL.
LONDON : JAMES NISBET AND CO. DUBLIN : W. ROBERTSON
M.DCCC.LXIII.
EDINBURGH :
PRINTED BY JOHU GREIG AND SON ,
OLD PHYSIC GARDENS.
CONTENTS,
PAUE OF THE CREATURES, AND THE CONDITION OF THEIR
STATE BY CREATION, 1
BOOK I. That the creatures are not God, but the works of his
distance between him and them. ... 3
power. They were not co-eternal with God. The infinite
BOOK II. Of the first estate of men and angels by their crea
tion. What were the laws and rights of creation ; and
what was equitably due between the Creator and his
creature. Of the state of the first man Adam in innocence,
and what were his circumstances in that his primitive
condition. . . 22
OF GOSPEL HOLINESS IN THE HEART AND LIFE,
B )OK I. That graces and holy dispositions wrought in the
soul are the springs and principles of evangelical obe
dience. The first streams which flow from hence are
inward actions of our souls in holy thoughts, and a lively
sonso and perception of spiritual things, and a due appro
bation an:l judgment of them as most excellent. That
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our holiness ought to be sincere and blameless. That
our obedience ought to abound in all fruits of righteous
ness, and to continue until the day of Christ, . . 131
BOOK II. The demeanour of a Christian, as it is expressed
under the notion of friendship with God. The example
of Abraham s being the friend of God. How, in the sense
of the apostle James, he was justified by works. How
great, excellent, and kind a friend God is to us. How
this consideration should engage us in a sincere friendship
to him. What are the duties and offices to be performed
by us, as proper and owing to such a friendship. Of the
behaviour of a Christian, as it is named service to God, 178
BOOK III. Evangelical motives to obedience, dra\vn from the
obligation which God hath laid upon us, by his appointing
us unto good words, in his election of us, and by the
greatness of his love manifested in the several instances
of it. Other motives urged from the consideration, that
Christ having by his death conquered the devil, and
destroyed his kingdom, we are by our Christian profes
sion engaged to hate him, and fight against him as a
public enemy to Christ and us, and by all our actions to
endeavour the ruin of his dark kingdom of sin. Other
motives deduced from the divine presence and majesty
apparent in our holy services and performances ; and
also from God s design in the revelation of his word, that
we should not only read and know it, but practise it too. 233
, BOOK IV. The danger of a loose, careless, and unfruitful
profession ; or the danger of men s living under the dis
pensation and enjoyment of the ordinances of the gospel ;
viz., the preaching of the word, the sacrament of the
Lord s supper, and church communion, if they live in sin,
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indulge their lusts, or be unfruitful. Two cases resolved :
1. How far a regenerate man is capable of sinning against
knowledge ; 2. Wherein the sin against the Holy Ghost
. . 296
differs from other sins against knowledge.
SAINTS POSSESS AFTER DEATH. ... 337
OF THE BLESSED STATE Ob GLORY WHICH THE
THREE SEVERAL AGES OF CHRISTIANS IN FAITH AND OBEDIENCE,
MAN S RESTORATION BY GRACE, ... 519
ON REPENTANCE,
OF THE CREATURES, AND THE CONDITION OF
THEIR STATE BY CREATION
VOL VII.
[ORIGINAL TITLE.]
OF THE CREATURES,
AND THE CONDITION
OF THEIR STATE
BY CREATION.
BY THOMAS GOODWIN, D.D.
LONDON,
Printed in the Year, MDCLXXXII.
OF THE CREATURES, AND THE CONDITION OF
THEIR STATE BY CREATION.