Thomas Goodwin

Do you have a hard time focusing your mind on Christ and spiritual things? Do you struggle with sinful or wandering thoughts? Thomas Goodwin shows us the tendency of our minds to vain thoughts and encourages us with several remedies that will help to keep our minds stayed on the Lord.

A Puritan doctrine for life

The Vanity of Thoughts

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English-Latin Dictionary; Or, Dictionary of the Latin Tongue

The Works of Thomas Goodwin

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ... BOOK I. A general and brief scheme of the whole of that work committed to the Holy Spirit in bringing us to salvation; in an enumeration of all particulars, and of the glory due unto him for it.--The work of the Holy Spirit in the unction of Jesus to be our Saviour. CHAPTER I. Some general observations premised out of the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth chapters of St John's Gospel. Theee is a general omission in the saints of God, in their not giving the Holy Ghost that glory that is due to his person, and for his great work of salvation in us, insomuch that we have in our hearts almost lost this third person. We give daily in our thoughts, prayers, affections, and speeches, an honour to the Father and the Son; but who almost directs the aims of his praise (more than in that general way of doxology we use to close our prayers with, 'All glory be, ' &c.) unto God the Holy Ghost? He is a person in the Godhead equal with the Father and the Son; and the wprk he doth for us in its kind is as great as those of the Father or the Son. Therefore, by the equity of all law, a proportionable honour from us is due to him. God's ordination amongst men is, that we should ' render to all their due, honour to whom honour is due, ' Rom. xiii. 1. To the magistracy (which there he speaks it of) according to their place and dignity; and this he makes a debt, a due, ver. 8. And the like is enjoined concerning ministers, that are instruments of our spiritual good, that we should esteem them very highly for their work's sake, ' 1 Thes. v. 18. Let the same law, I beseech you, take place in your hearts towards the Holy Ghost, as well as the other two persons of the Trinity. The Holy Ghost is indeed the last in order of the persons, as proceeding from..

Thomas Taylor

Thomas Boston

William Fenner

Henry Smith

Joel Beeke

John Norden

The Digital Puritan is a quarterly digest of carefully selected Puritan works which provides a steady diet of sound Puritan teaching. The language has been gently modernised to render it more readable, while still retaining much of the flavour and character of the original text. Hundreds of helpful notes and Scripture references (in the English Standard Version®) are included as end-notes; no internet connection is needed. The following articles appear in this spring/summer 2014-2015 edition: 1. Profiting from the Puritans for Devotional Reading – Joel Beeke 2. Dead Preaching is Often the Cause of a People’s Deadness – William Fenner 3. A Discourse on Thankfulness – Thomas Goodwin 4. Perilous Times in the Last Days – Thomas Boston 5. A Wedding Sermon – Thomas Taylor.

The Digital Puritan - Vol.V, No.1

The Works of Thomas Goodwin: Of the creatures &c. Of Gospel holiness blessed state of glory &c. Three several ages in faith and obedience &c. &c

Gospel Holiness

John Bunyan

Thomas Shepard

Prayer is an ordinance of God, and that to be used both in public and private; yea, such an ordinance will bring those that have the spirit of supplication into great familiarity with God; and is also so prevalent an action, that it gets of God, both for the person that prays, and for them that are prayed for, great things. It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled. By prayer the Christian can open his heart to God, as to a friend and obtain fresh testimony of God's friendship to him - I might spend many words in distinguishing between public and private prayer as also between that in the heart, and that with the vocal voice. Something also might be spoken to distinguish between the gifts and graces of prayer; but as eschewing this method my business shall be at this time only to show you the very heart of prayer, without which, all your lifting up both of hands, and eyes, and voices, will be to no purpose at all. Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God has promised, or according to the Word for the good of the Church, with submission, in faith, to the will of God. 1. For the first of these: it is a sincere pouring out of the soul to God. Sincerity is such a grace as runs through all the graces of God in us, and through all the actings of a Christian, and has the sway in them too, or else their actings are not anything regarded of God, and so of and in prayer, of which particularly David speaks, when he mentions prayer: "7 cried unto the Lord with my mouth, and He was extolled with my tongue. If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me " (Psa. 68:18). Part of the exercise of prayer is sincerity, without which God looks not upon it as prayer in a good sense. "And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart" (Jer. 29:13). The want of this made the Lord reject their prayers in Hos. 7:14, where He says, "They have not cried to Me with their hearts (that is, in sincerity), when they howled upon their beds "! But for a pretense, for a show, in hypocrisy, to be seen of men, and applauded for the same, they pray. Sincerity was that which Christ commended in Nathaniel when he was under the fig-tree: "Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile" (John 1:47). Probably this good man was pouring out of his soul to God in prayer under the fig-tree, and that in a sincere and unfeigned spirit before the Lord. The prayer that has this in it as one of the principal ingredients is the prayer that God looks at: "The prayer of the upright is His delight. " Bunyan (1628-1688) rose from an humble beginning to being a preacher to a little house church, to 12 years in jail because he would not agree to quit preaching, to a huge church in London. He wrote 66 books, nearly all while in jail. Goodwin (1600-1679) was rightly described as ''one of the twin pillars of the Puritan movement.'' His 12 volumes are filled with information not to be found in any other works. Thomas Shepard was an early New England Puritan. His work was praised at once by eminent divines, four of them being Westminster Confession participants. Jonathan Edwards quoted from Shepard more than any other.

Prayer, Return of Prayer and the Saint's Jewel

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1642 Edition.

The Heart of Christ in Heaven Towards Sinners on Earth

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The History of the Reign of Henry the Fifth, King of England, &c

Civil and Ecclesiasticall Rites, Vsed by the Ancient Hebrewes: Observed, and at Large Opened, for the Clearing of Many Obscure Texts Thorowout the Whole Scriptvre. Which Texts are Now Added in the End of the Booke. Herein Likewise is Shewed what Cvstomes the Hebrewes Borrowed from Heathen People: and that Many Heathenish Customes, Originally Have Beene Unwarrantable Imitations of the Hebrewes

Moses and Aaron

An English Exposition of the Roman Antiquities, Wherein Many Roman and English Offices are Parallel'd, and Divers Obscure Phrases Explained. For the Use of Abingdon School

Romanæ Historiæ Anthologia Recognita Et Aucta

The Works of Thomas Goodwin: Christ the mediator. Supereminence of Christ. Reconciliation to God etc

Thomas Goodwin aims to show from Scripture that, in all his heavenly majesty, Christ is not now aloof from believers and unconcerned, but has the strongest affections for them. --from publisher description

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