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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...

Heb. 11:13; and salvation is therefore called ‘the end of our faith,’ 1 Peter 1:9. 2. All the works in the world cannot unite you to Christ, and enable you to lay hold on him and justification by him; this is faith’s work alone. That ties the marriage-knot betwixt Christ and you, as nothing makes man and wife but consent; though there be love and kindness, yet that makes the match. So doth faith: Hosea 2:20, ‘I will betroth thee to me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know the Lord,’ that is, believe
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