The Works of Thomas Goodwin, vol. 6

by Thomas Goodwin

Publisher:

James Nichol

, 1863

Overview

Goodwin wrote at length about the Holy Spirit. Volume Six includes his writings on the work of the Holy Spirit in salvation, the connection between the person of the Spirit and the person of Jesus, and the role of the Spirit in both conversion and sanctification. Goodwin’s works on the Holy Spirit are interspersed with key biblical texts on the Spirit, as well as the theological controversies about the doctrine of the Trinity.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Hast thou seen thy sinful condition, and been humbled, as to hell, for it? It is the Spirit’s proper work, for which he was sent.” (Page 18)

“It was the Holy Ghost anointed him to all his offices, as first to be a prophet and preacher of the gospel” (Page 12)

“to persuade you to honour the Holy Ghost as you do the Father and the Son” (Page 4)

“And for this Christ hath expressly told us, that as he and his Father do confer together about the great transactions of man’s salvation, so that the Spirit hears all that passeth, John 16:13. Nor yet did he stand by as a bare witness to relate it and confirm it to us, but was sent down by both as a principal actor, that had the great and ultimate hand in effecting of it.” (Page 419)

“The Holy Ghost is vinculum Trinitatis, the union of the Father and the Son, as proceeding from both by way of love; and who so meet to be the union of God and man in Christ, of Christ and men in us, as he that was the bond of union among themselves?” (Page 50)

Praise for the Print Edition

He speaks the intimacies of things from an inward sense and feeling of them in his own heart, to the particular cases and experiences of others.

—James Barron

Product Details

• Title: The Works of Thomas Goodwin, vol. 6
• Author: Thomas Goodwin
• Publisher: James Nichol
• Publication Date: 1863
• Pages: 522

About Thomas Goodwin

Thomas Goodwin (October 5, 1600–February 23, 1680) was an English Puritan theologian and preacher. He was born in Norfolk in England as the oldest son of Richard and Catherine Goodwin. At the age of six, Goodwin, in his own words, “began to have some slighter workings of the Holy Spirit.” He attended Christ’s College in Cambridge, and was ordained as a preacher in 1625 and as a lecturer at Trinity Church in 1633.

In 1634, he resigned and in 1639 was forced to flee to the Netherlands to escape persecution.

After Goodwin returned to England, he became a member of the Westminster Assembly, and frequently preached in Parliament. In 1656, he also became chaplain to Oliver Cromwell. Along with John Owen, Thomas Goodwin was instrumental in writing the Westminster Confession of 1658.

In 1660, Goodwin returned to London and served as pastor of Fetter Lane Independent Church, where he remained until his death.