Thomas Goodwin Quotes

"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."
- Thomas Goodwin
(Related: God, Being, Christ, Promise)

"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."
- Thomas Goodwin
(Related: Love, Time, God, Eternity, First)

"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."
- Thomas Goodwin
(Related: Virtue, Christ, Privilege)

"Judas heard all Christ's sermons."
- Thomas Goodwin
(Related: Christ, Sermons)

"It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations."
- Thomas Goodwin
(Related: Generations, Privilege, Promise)

"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."
- Thomas Goodwin
(Related: Father, First, Name, Right, Will)

"Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in."
- Thomas Goodwin
(Related: Christ, Doctrine, Treasure)

"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."
- Thomas Goodwin
(Related: Faith, Promise, Respect, Speech)

"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."
- Thomas Goodwin
(Related: Fathers, Promise)