Thomas Goodwin Quotes


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.


Citations

Goodwin, Thomas. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, Vol. 1. James Nichol, 1861, p. 86.

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Thomas Goodwin
Thomas Goodwin
  • Born: October 5, 1600
  • Died: February 23, 1680
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Clergyman

Thomas Goodwin, known as "the Elder", was an English Puritan theologian and preacher, and an important leader of religious Independents. He served as chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, and was imposed by Parliament as President of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1650. Christopher Hill places Goodwin in the "main stream of Puritan thought".