Thomas Goodwin — The Heart of Christ in Heaven Towards Sinners on Earth

It is manifest, we are not appointed in this duty, to declare God's perfections, his majesty, holiness, goodness, and all-sufficiency, and our own meanness, emptiness, dependence, and unworthiness, and our wants and desi…

Secondly, He bids his ambassadors declare, that as to that point men need not trouble themselves, nor take care about it; for he himself hath further been so zealously affected in this business, that he himself hath made…

I will come again and receive you unto myself (says Christ), that so where I am, you may be also. That last part of his speech gives the reason of it, and also divulges his entire affection. It is as if he had said, 'The…

Paul heard not one sermon of Christ's (that he knew of) while on earth, and received the gospel from no man, apostle or other, but by the immediate revelation of Jesus Christ from heaven, as he speaks, Galatians 1:11-12.…

Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?'saith the Apostle; 'it is God that justifieth,'and it is their being elect that carries it. Yea, his love is so strong that if there be any accusation,'the Apostle mak…

If through all thy discouragemnets thy condition prove worse and worse, so that thou canst not pray, but are struck dumb when thou comest into his presence, as David, then fall making signs when thou canst not speak; gro…