A Habitual Sight of Him: The Christ-Centered Piety of Thomas Goodwin - Profiles in Reformed Spirituality (Beeke & Jones, eds.)

Thomas Goodwin (1600–1680) was a faithful pastor, Westminster divine, advisor to Oliver Cromwell, and president of Magdalen College, Oxford. In this book, Joel R. Beeke and Mark Jones acquaint the reader with Goodwin through an informative biographical introduction. The remainder of the book, 35 selections from across the works of Goodwin, displays Goodwin’s constant attention to Christ in his various theological engagements. You will learn much about the life and works of this influential Puritan, and perhaps, be strengthened with a habitual sight of Christ. 

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Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: The Piety of Thomas Goodwin (1600-1680)
2. Christ Excels Joseph
3. Christ Longs for His Own Return
4. Sitting in Heaven
5. Crying Us into Heaven
6. Christ’s Gift
7. Christ Dwelling in Our Hearts by Faith
8. Christ’s Perfections are our Perfections
9. Three Hours
10. Christ by Piecemeal
11. Christ, the Marrow of the Gospel
12. Reconciliation Through Christ
13. “Christ above Moses”
14. God’s Greatest Work (1)
15. God’s Greatest Work (2)
16. Possessing Christ by Faith
17. One Foot on Christ, Another on Yourself?
18. No Union, No Justification
19. Communion with Christ
20. Elected to Inseparable Union with Christ
21. Purchasing and Bestowing
22. Gathered to Christ or Satan?
23. Sitting at the Right Hand
24. Summed up in Christ
25. Christ Putting Beauty on the Body
26. Living Like Christ
27. The Revenues of His Death
28. Joy in God’s Glory
29. Weak, But Accepted for Christ’s Sake
30. Christ’s Works of Glory
31. Restoring Beauty to His Bride
32. “The Son’s Special Act”
33. Spirit-Christology
34. Never Leaving Christ Out
35. The Mystery of His Will in Christ
36. Treasures in Heaven 

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Series Description 

Seeking, then, both to honor the past and yet not idolize it, we are issuing these books in the series Profiles in Reformed Spirituality. The design is to introduce the spirituality and piety of the Reformed Profiles in Reformed Spirituality tradition by presenting descriptions of the lives of notable Christians with select passages from their works. This combination of biographical sketches and collected portions from primary sources gives a taste of the subjects’ contributions to our spiritual heritage and some direction as to how the reader can find further edification through their works. It is the hope of the publishers that this series will provide riches for those areas where we are poor and light of day where we are stumbling in the deepening twilight.

Authors 

Joel R. Beeke (PhD, Westminster Seminary) is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary; a pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan; editor of Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth; editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books; and a prolific author. 

Mark Jones (Ph.D., Leiden, 2009) has been the minister at Faith Vancouver Presbyterian Church (PCA), Canada since 2007. He is also Research Associate in the Faculty of Theology at the University of the Free State (Bloemfontein) and Lecturer in Dogmatic Theology at John Wycliffe Theological College, in association with North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa.

Endorsements 

“Christology lay at the very heart of the best of Reformed Orthodox theology and practice. In this short book the reader is not only introduced to a brilliant Puritan theologian but also to the very center of his vital Christian piety. I hope this book introduces the writings of Goodwin to a new generation.” - Carl Trueman

“In the long line of distinguished Puritans known as the ‘Spiritual Brotherhood,’ Thomas Goodwin had a formative impact on a host of contemporaries, including John Owen. On many a day while writing my doctoral dissertation on Goodwin, I found myself overwhelmed with emotion as well as penetrating insight as this servant of God set Christ forth in His saving office. Thomas Goodwin’s work defies any tidy division between doctrine and doxology.” - Mike Horton