Of all the sublime subjects tackled by Goodwin, this is among the best known and the most-often read. No matter how mature you are in your faith, Goodwin will open up a fresh, heavenly perspective that shows Christ at work from the beginning to the fulfillment of your life. He shows us the gospel in origin--as an eternal transaction among God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, and God the Son--for the salvation of man. Accomplishing salvation required a full and complete satisfaction for justice, something we could not do for ourselves. We need a mediator: first, someone who must be God, able to perfectly fulfill the broken promises of Adam's race; and second, a man to be a representative substitute for us. As our mediator must be both God and man, our only Mediator could be Christ. Table of Contents: Book 1: The Covenant of Redemption with Christ Book 2: The Fitness of Christ for the Work of Redemption Book 3: The Fulness of Christ to Accomplish Our Redemption Book 4: Christ's Willingness to Accomplish the Work of Redemption Book 5: Christ's Actual Performance of Our Redemption Book 6: Christ Our High Priest in Heaven

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. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... things; and as things are framed and fashioned, so they must frame their counsels; but with God it is otherwise, he frameth things according to the counsel of his own will, he adviseth with none: ' Who hath been his counsellor?' Rom. rL 34. In the third place, it is called the counsel of his own will, to shew that in casting whatsoever he meaneth to do, his will hath the supreme stroke. Still you shall find it in the Scripture, that all is attributed to his will; and observe the phrase here, it is not called the will of his counsel, but it is called rather the counsel of his will, --it is the observation of Catherinus and Musculus upon the place, --to shew the difference between man's will and God's. The law of man's will is still to be determined by the understanding, so that the will of a man is the will of his counsel. My brethren, when God considered whether he would make a world or no, the consultation was not whether it was best to make it or not to make it. Why 1 Because there was no best to God to do the one or the other; there is the greatest reason for it that can be, for it was all one to him whether he did it or no. What caused him then to do it? What did cast it? It was his will. His will setteth his counsel so to work, as it were, to do it the best way; but it is not his will being determined by his counsel as judging it best, for it was neither better one way nor other for God, for he standeth in need of no creature. So that in Scripture you have election attributed to his will, ' He hath mercy on whom he will;' you have creation attributed to his will, 'By thy will all things were created, ' Rev. iv. 11. But now, though his will had the casting of it clearly, and therein lieth the sovereignty and liberty of the will of God

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.

In short, the central argument of this study posits that Goodwin's Christology is grounded in, and flows out of, the eternal covenant of redemption, also known as the pactum salutis or »counsel of peace«. That is to say, his Christology does not begin in the temporal realm at the incarnation, but stretches back into eternity when the persons of the Trinity covenanted to bring about the salvation of fallen mankind. Goodwin's Christology moves from the pretemporal realm to the temporal realm with a decidedly eschatological thrust, that is, with a view to the glory of the God-man, Jesus Christ. What this work does is connect two vital aspects of Reformed theology, namely, the doctrine of Christ and the concept of the covenant. The findings of this study show that, for Goodwin, Christ is the Christ of the covenant.