Thomas Goodwin Quotes

• In Christ are treasures that will require digging to the end of the world.

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  Digging, World, Treasure

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• Value God and his love more than all the world, though there were millions of them. He valued you before the world, and therefore is beforehand with you in his love. He not only loved you from everlasting, (whereas your love is but of yesterday,) but in the valuation of it, he loved you before all worlds, and preferred you to all worlds: though you loved the world first, before you loved him.

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  Love Is, Yesterday, World

  Thomas Goodwin (1861). “The Works of Thomas Goodwin”, p.79

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• If I were to go to heaven, and find that Christ was not there, I would leave immediately; for heaven without Christ would be hell to me.

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  Heaven, Would Be, Hell

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• Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

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  Christianity, Judas, Heard

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• What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.

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  Purpose, Causes

  Thomas Goodwin (1861). “The Works of Thomas Goodwin”, p.70

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• Glory in nothing, but only in this, that you are in Christ. For God chose you in him; the being you had was in him before the world was.

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  World, Christ, Glory

  Thomas Goodwin (1861). “The Works of Thomas Goodwin”, p.77

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• God works with power, and can make the unwilling willing; if He undertakes the conversion of a soul, it will be converted. All the pious workings of our heart towards God are the fruit and consequence of the powerful working of His grace in us.

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  Powerful, Heart, Grace

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• Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and won with thanks.

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  Christian, Prayer, Blessed

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• Heaven would be hell to me without Christ.

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  Heaven, Would Be, Hell

  Joel Beeke, Thomas Boston, William Fenner, Thomas Taylor, Thomas Goodwin (2015). “The Digital Puritan - Vol.V, No.1”, p.10, Digital Puritan Press

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• What a wonder is it, that two natures infinitely distant, should be more intimately united than anything in the world; and yet without any confusion! That the same person should have both a glory and a grief; an infinite joy in the Deity, and an inexpressible sorrow in the humanity! That a God upon a throne should be an infant in a cradle; the thundering Creator be a weeping babe and a suffering man, are such expressions of mighty power, as well as condescending love, that they astonish men upon earth, and angels in heaven.

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  Grief, Angel, Men

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• The Indwelling of Christ by faithis to have Jesus Christ continually in one’s eye, a habitual sight of Him. I call it so because a man actually does not always think of Christ; but as a man does not look up to the sun continually, yet he sees the light of it. So you should carry along and bear along in your eye the sight and knowledge of Christ, so that at least a presence of Him accompanies you, which faith makes.

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  Jesus, Eye, Men

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• Grace is more than mercy and love. It super-adds to them. It denotes, not simply love, but the love of a sovereign, transcendent Superior. One that may do what He will. That may wholly choose whether He will love or no. Now God, who is an infinite Sovereign, who might have chosen whether ever He would love us or no; for Him to love us, this is Grace.

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  Grace, And Love, Add

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• Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved.

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  Lying, Election, Remnants

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• Being in Christ, and united to Him, is the fundamental constitution of a Christian.

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  Christian, Fundamentals, Constitution

  Thomas Goodwin (2000). “Christ Our Mediator”, p.350, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The most thankful person is the most fully human.

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  Humans, Persons

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• Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.

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  Doctrine, Treasure, Riches

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• When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.

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  Prayer, Moving, Heart

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• Moreover, as God respects no persons, so He respects no conditions upon which He gives salvation to us.

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  Giving, Election, Salvation

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• Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.

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  Prayer, Granted, Process

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• My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

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  Giving Up, Love You, Firsts

  Thomas Goodwin (1861). “The Works of Thomas Goodwin”, p.167

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• In public worship all should join. The little strings go to make up a concert, as well as the great.

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  Littles, Worship, Should

  Thomas Goodwin (1861). “The Works of Thomas Goodwin”, p.14

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• And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.

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  Promise, Speech, Covenant

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• We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.

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  Blessing, Promise, Christ

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• The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.

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  Children, Believe, Covenant With God

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• It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

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  Should Have, Promise, Generations

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