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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...

This is clearly (as to me), also the difference between that way of knowing God which believers have now, and that which Adam had in innocency; if Adam had stood, he amongst his children that had the most parts (those parts being all carried in a rational way), should have known more of God than he that, it may be, was more holy, and had lower parts. But it is not so in the second Adam, because he hath a way of letting things into the mind beyond the way of reason, by the way of sight and spiritual
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