Book II
NICHOL S SERIES OF STANDARD DIVINES.
PURITAN PERIOD.
THE
WORKS OF THOMiS GOODWIN, D.D.
VOL. IX.
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.
JJttor. REV. THOMAS SMITH, M.A., EDINBURGH.
THE WORKS
THOMAS GOODWIN, D.D.
SOMETIME PEESIDENT OF MAGDALENE COLLEGE, OXFORD.
BY JOHN C. MILLER, D.D.,
LINCOLN COLLEGE; HONORARY CANON OF WORCESTER; RECTOR OF ST MARTIN S, BIRMINGHAM.
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CONTENTS.
A DISCOUESE OF ELECTION, 4c,
PAOR BOOK I.
Wherein is proved the necessity of an election grace, if any of
the rational creatures be certainly saved : and that God hath
made an election of some out of pure grace, proved by the
event, out of the stories of all times, throughout the Old
and New Testament.
BOOK II.
Of the order of God s decrees about man s election and reproba
tion. Of the end to which we are ordained ; a supernatural
union with God and communication of himself. The infinity
of grace discovered therein.
BOOK III.
The infinity of grace in God s choosing us, proved from the nature
of election, both simply considered in itself, and also com
pared with that other act of reprobation.
BOOK IV.
The mighty and powerful grace which God dispenses to his elect,
in effectually calling them, in preserving them from tempta
tions and sin, in strengthening and enabling them to persevere
unto the end, and in bringing them at last securely to an
eternal glory, by all which, the greatness of election grace
. 281
is more fully cleared and proved.
CONTENTS.
PAGE BOOK V.
Election, in the ordinary course of it, runs in a line of succession
from believing parents to their posterity. The covenant of
grace is entailed on the children of believers. God most
usually makes such his choice. What judgment we are
thereupon to have of them. . . 426
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A DISCOURSE
OF ELECTION,
OF THE
Free and Special GRACE of GOD
Manifested therein ;
THE
Absoluteness and Unchangeableness of his DECREES ,
and their Infallible Accomplishment.
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