Book I
NICHOL S SERIES OF STANDARD DIVINES.
PUBITAN PERIOD.
THE
WORKS OF THOMAS GOODWIN, D.D.
VOL. VIII.
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.
Ut tor.
REV. THOMAS SMITH, M.A., EDINBURGH.
THE WORKS
THOMAS GOODWIN, D.D.,
SOMETIME PRESIDENT OF MAGDALENE COLLEGE, OXFORD.
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VOL. VIII.
CONTAINING I
THE OBJECT AND ACTS OE JUSTIFYING FAITH,
EDINBURGH : JAMES NICHOL. LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO. DUBLIN: W. ROBERTSON.
M.DCCC.LXIV.
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PBEFACE TO THE READER.
PAET I.-OF THE OBJECT OE FAITH.
BOOK I.
The mercies in God s nature the object, and support, and
encouragement of faith. How we are to act faith thereon.
BOOK II.
The second object of faith, Jesus Christ. Of our being drawn to
him by the Father, and our treating with him for an
interest in his person, and salvation by him. That Christ,
as God-man in one person, is the object of our faith. That
as a spiritual Messiah and Saviour he is propounded to our
faith. That not only Christ in his person, but in all that he
hath done and suffered for our salvation, and now doth for
us in heaven, is the object of our faith.
BOOK III.
The free grace of God, as declared and proposed in the covenant,
is the object of faith. Of the soul s applying itself unto the
free grace of God, and treating with it for its salvation.
That the absolute declarations of this free grace, or the
absolute promises of the gospel, are the object of faith of
recumbence, or adherence. That election-grace, and the
immutability of God s counsel, as indefinitely proposed in
the promises, are also the object of faith. How the believing
soul may consider and regard God s absolute decree of
election.
V1 CONTENTS.
PABT II.-OF THE ACTS OF FAITH.