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Volume Eight includes Goodwin’s work on justification. He acknowledges the theological truth that we are saved by grace through faith—but how does that inform the life and thought of believers? Goodwin writes extensively the nature and object of faith, and the relationship between grace and faith. He also explores the ways in which faith is represented in the lives of believers, and concludes...

in his measure, in the glorious sight, sense, and taste of this superabounding grace, which he found was not only ‘sufficient’ (as 2 Cor. 12:9), but more than enough for his turn; and, to be sure, more than enough for his soul to take in. It came upon his spirit as a mighty sea, which had neither shore nor bottom. He saw there was an infinity of it, which he was no more able to take in into his comprehension, no more than a narrow vessel is able to take into itself the main ocean; and in this respect
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