COUNCIL OF PUBLICATION. W. LINDSAY ALEXANDER, D.D., Professor of Theology, Congregational Union, Edinburgh. JAMES BEGG, D.D., Minister of Newington Free Church, Edinburgh. THOMAS J. CRAWFORD, D.D., S.T.P., Professor of Divinity, University, Edinburgh. D. T. K. DRUMMOND, M.A., Minister of St Thomas's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh. WILLIAM H. GOOLD, D.D., Professor of Biblical Literature and Church History, Reformed Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh. ANDREW THOMSON, D.D., Minister of Broughton Place United Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh. General Editor. REV. THOMAS SMITH, M.A., EDINBURGH. THE WORKS OF THOMAS GOODWIN, D.D. SOMETIME PRESIDENT OF MAGDALENE COLLEGE, OXFORD. With General Preface BY JOHN C. MILLER, D.D., LINCOLN COLLEGE; HONORARY CANON OF WORCESTER; RECTOR OF ST MARTIN'S, BIRMINGHAM. And Memoir BY ROBERT HALLEY, D.D. PRINCIPAL OF THE INDEPENDENT NEW COLLEGE, LONDON. VOL. IX. CONTAINING: A DISCOURSE OF ELECTION, &c. A DISCOURSE OF THANKFULNESS. EDINBURGH: JAMES NICHOL. LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO. DUBLIN: G. HERBERT. M.DCCC.LXIV. CONTENTS. Wherein is proved the necessity of an election grace, if any of the rational creatures be certainly saved: and that God hath made an election of some out of pure grace, proved by the Of the order of God's decrees about man's election and reproba- tion. Of the end to which we are ordained; a supernatural The infinity of grace in God's choosing us, proved from the nature of election, both simply considered in itself, and also com- The mighty and powerful grace which God dispenses to his elect, in effectually calling them, in preserving them from tempta- tions and sin, in strengthening and enabling them to persevere unto the end, and in bringing them at last securely to an eternal glory, by all which, the greatness of election grace PAGR |