Book II
NICHOL S SERIES OF STANDARD DIVINES.
PURITAN PERIOD.
THE
WORKS OF THOMAS GOODWIN, D.D,
YOL. X.
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.
<5Ut tor. 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.,
LINCOLN COLLEGE ; HONORARY CANON OF WORCESTER; RECTOR OF ST MARTIN S, BIRMINGHAM.
BY ROBERT HALLEY, D.D.
PRINCIPAL OF THE INDEPENDENT NEW COLLEGE, LONDON.
V7" VOL. X.
CONTAINING :
AN UNREGENERATE MAN S GUILTINESS BEFORE GOD,
IN RESPECT OF SIN AND PUNISHMENT.
EDINBURGH : JAMES NICHOL. LONDON : JAMES NISBET AND CO. DUBLIN : G. HERBERT.
M.DCCC.LXV.
KDINB11RGH :
KINTK1) BY JOHN OKE1O AND SO>,
OI 1) PHYSIC GARDENS.
CONTENTS,
AN UNREGENERATE MAN S GUILTINESS BEFORE GOD, fc.
PAGE BOOK I.
posterity. ...... 8
Of an unregenerate man s guiltiness before God, from the impu
tation of Adam s first transgression to every person of his
BOOK II.
An unregenerate man s guiltiness before God, in respect of that
corruption of nature with which all mankind is infected, and
the whole nature of every man is polluted and depraved. . 40
BOOK III.
The corruption of man s whole nature, and of all the faculties of
his soul by sin ; and first of the depravation of the under
standing, which is full of darkness, and blinded, so that it
cannot apprehend spiritual things in a due spiritual manner. 125
BOOK IV.
generate men. .... .179 BOOK V.
Of that corruption which is in the practical judgments of unre
That reason in man being corrupted by sin, useth its strength and
force to advise and contrive the satisfaction of his lusts ;
whence it is that reason, which should have acted for God, now acts for sin and lusts. . . . . 210
BOOK VI.
The vanity of thoughts, being an instance of the abounding sin-
fulness in one faculty of the soul, the cogitative ; whereby
the sinfulness of the rest may be estimated. . . 256
VI CONTENTS.
PAQB BOOK VII.
The corruption and defilements of conscience. . . 257