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The Works of Thomas Goodwin, Vol. V is unavailable, but you can change that!

Volume Five of Goodwin’s works is devoted to Christology. This volume includes numerous treatises on Christ’s twin acts of mediation and reconciliation. Goodwin also writes at length about the connection between the redemptive work of Jesus and the Old Testament sacrificial system.

business in itself, you know how unwelcome it must needs be to Christ: ‘Father, if it be possible’ (says he), ‘let it pass;’ yet because it was his Father’s will, he submits, ‘Not my will, but thine be done,’ Mat. 26:39. As it was his Father’s will, he had no reluctancy, neither would simply all our cries or mediation have ever moved him, no more than straws can move a mountain; but that it was his Father’s will, it was enough. For besides that reason for it, John 10:30, ‘I and my Father are one’ (saith
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