Top 31 Thomas Goodwin Quotes
#1. 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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#3. In public worship all should join. The little strings go to make up a concert, as well as the great.
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#4. Being in Christ, and united to Him, is the fundamental constitution of a Christian.
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#5. God is infinitely beautiful in himself, and his beauty ought to attract you like a magnet to him.
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#6. 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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#7. I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed.
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#8. Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.
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#9. 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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#10. Where God gives opportunity for preaching it is more than likely that he has some people to convert. Usually the Word of God takes root among some, though often in but a few.
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#11. In Christ are treasures that will require digging to the end of the world.
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#12. It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.
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#13. What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.
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#14. The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.
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#15. 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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#16. Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved.
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#18. We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.
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#19. 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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#20. 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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#22. Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.
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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. Moreover, as God respects no persons, so He respects no conditions upon which He gives salvation to us.
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#26. Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.
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#27. Ask God to make you like David: an intercessor, even in the midst of your own great sins and great needs.
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#28. Take the fact that you were created to love. Your heart can find real joy only through love - through loving and being loved.
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#29. 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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#31. It is not enough to hear a sermon, but you must eat it down, take in what it commands, and then it will purge your heart ... Take the word and digest it, squeeze the juice of it into thy heart, and it will purge thee from all contrary corruption. pg. 73- 'Mans Guiltiness Before God
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