QUOTABLE GOODWIN

• 'God is glorified only by being made known.'

• The Son of God might have assumed any nature, yours or mine.'

• 'Jesus Christ was the greatest and the best believer that ever lived.'

• 'The one great end of Christ's preaching was to reveal the Father.'

• 'Faith answers to the whole of Christ, and Christ answers to the whole of faith.'

• 'Eye not the promises, but the Promiser.'

• 'Holy Scripture is not abhorrent of the metaphor of purchase in the work of Christ.'

• 'Man never knows how anthropomorphic he is.'

• 'Some men have given over all other lives but the life of faith.'

• 'Regeneration is but partial in the very best saints.'

• 'Motus primi non cadunt sub libertatem.'

• 'Our greatest sins are those of the mind.'

• 'Their indwelling sin is by far the greatest misery of the regenerate.'

• 'Self is the most abominable principle that ever was.'

• 'Generalia non pungunt.'

• 'We are to seek to have affections suitable to our knowledge.'

• 'Aqua fortis is laid on letters of ink to eat them out, and so is the blood of Christ laid on the handwriting that is against us.'

• 'Verba in res, as the philosopher said when he was converted.'

• 'Divinity hath a definition of man, of which definition the deepest philosophy falls short.'

• 'The circumstances lie heavier on the conscience than the act itself.'

• 'Hell fire is not culinary fire.'

• 'Good swimmers seek out deep waters.'

• 'A thief that deserves hanging must not complain of being burned in the hand.'

• 'Judas heard all Christ's sermons.'

• 'Demas left his preaching, and turned to merchandising.'

• 'God had only one Son, and He made Him a Minister.'

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