Goodwin gives four reasons why he believed that “these instructions and suggestions [of deliverance and pardon] were immediately from God”: (1) the condition of his heart prior to receiving the word of God’s willingness to pardon—“the posture and condition of my spirit, and that this suggestion took me when my heart was fixed, and that unmoveably, in the contrary persuasions”; (2) the appropriateness of this divine word when it came—“it was a word in its proper season”; (3) that this word was “not