Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

Jeremiah Burroughs (Preacher, 1600 – 1646)

Moreover, as God respects no persons, so He respects no conditions upon which He gives salvation to us.

Thomas Goodwin (Theologian, 1600 – 1680)

Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.

Thomas Goodwin (Theologian, 1600 – 1680)

Being in Christ, and united to Him, is the fundamental constitution of a Christian.

Thomas Goodwin (Theologian, 1600 – 1680)

When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people’s hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.

Thomas Goodwin (Theologian, 1600 – 1680)

Grace is more than mercy and love. It super-adds to them. It denotes, not simply love, but the love of a sovereign, transcendent Superior. One that may do what He will. That may wholly choose whether He will love or no. Now God, who is an infinite Sovereign, who might have chosen whether ever He would love us or no; for Him to love us, this is Grace.

Thomas Goodwin (Theologian, 1600 – 1680)

The Indwelling of Christ by faith is to have Jesus Christ continually in one’s eye, a habitual sight of Him. I call it so because a man actually does not always think of Christ; but as a man does not look up to the sun continually, yet he sees the light of it. So you should carry along and bear along in your eye the sight and knowledge of Christ, so that at least a presence of Him accompanies you, which faith makes.

Thomas Goodwin (Theologian, 1600 – 1680)

What a wonder is it, that two natures infinitely distant, should be more intimately united than anything in the world; and yet without any confusion! That the same person should have both a glory and a grief; an infinite joy in the Deity, and an inexpressible sorrow in the humanity! That a God upon a throne should be an infant in a cradle; the thundering Creator be a weeping babe and a suffering man, are such expressions of mighty power, as well as condescending love, that they astonish men upon earth, and angels in heaven.

Thomas Goodwin (Theologian, 1600 – 1680)

God works with power, and can make the unwilling willing; if He undertakes the conversion of a soul, it will be converted. All the pious workings of our heart towards God are the fruit and consequence of the powerful working of His grace in us.

Thomas Goodwin (Theologian, 1600 – 1680)

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and won with thanks.

Thomas Goodwin (Theologian, 1600 – 1680)