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

Goodwin wrote at length about the Holy Spirit. Volume Six includes his writings on the work of the Holy Spirit in salvation, the connection between the person of the Spirit and the person of Jesus, and the role of the Spirit in both conversion and sanctification. Goodwin’s works on the Holy Spirit are interspersed with key biblical texts on the Spirit, as well as the theological controversies...

thy presence, and take not thy Holy Spirit from me.’ For as he vouchsafes to become the ink, so he bears the part of a hand, too, of a ready writer. The Spirit is the finger of God (Mat. 12:28, compared with Luke 11:20), the sole artist that guides those pens that cast this ink, as there also (in ver. 6) it follows: ‘God hath made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter’ (for even that New Testament hath also letter to men unregenerate, and is but the dispensation of a notion),
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