Following the thread link announcing the new Meet the Puritans blog, I wound up at Mark Jones' blog on Thomas Goodwin [now archived].

On 14 August he posted a blog under the title, "The Best Puritan Work, IMO"
and his conclusion was in favor of Goodwin's treatise, "The Heart of Christ in Heaven Towards Sinners on Earth"

“The Heart of Christ in Heaven Towards Sinners on Earth”

What say you? Agree? Jones is unexpectedly biased towards Goodwin?

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Wayne Sparkman, Th.M.
Director, PCA Historical Center, St. Louis, MO
Blogs: The Continuing Story and PCA History Blog

I agree with Dr. Beeke. Goodwin > Owen.

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Benjamin P. Glaser, M. Div, Licentiate, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Member Fairmount ARP Church
Pittsburgh, PA

Deo Vindice

Owen was far better of a theologian than goodwin though Goodwin is far more practical and easier to read. I do think though both were wrong on the nature of the Church though!!!

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J. P. Grigoletti II * Lay-man * Église Réformée du Québec
Québec, Québec Canada * Member: Église Reformée St. Marc
http://Grigoletti.blogspot.com - blog
<<There are three things necessary for thee to know, that thou, enjoying this comfort, mayest live and die happily: the first, how great your sins and miseries are; the second, how thou may be delivered from all thy sins and miseries; the third, how thou shall express thy gratitude to God for such deliverance.>>

J.I. Packer said that while on some matters of detail Owen may have seen more clearly into Paul's mind, no one saw more clearly into his heart than Goodwin.

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Ruben
Moderator
F.P.C.I.
Indiana

Vanities and disguises have covered us, and thereby we are naked; licenciousness hath inflam'd us, and thereby we are frozen; voluptuousness hath fed us, and thereby we are sterved, the fancies and traditions of men have taught and instructed us, and thereby we are ignorant.
John Donne

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The Howling Wilderness

Precious Remedies.

I can't recommend it highly enough.

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Ben
Chaplain, US Army
Ft. Riley, KS
TE Ohio Valley Presbytery, PCA

That's just because Goodwin asked Packer to write a blurb for a dust jacket and Owen would not!

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Bob, elder, RBC Louisville. 1689 LBCF

"... Of such also, or of those who make a credible profession of being such, all those particular churches consist, which constitute our Lord's visible kingdom. ... Consequently, all the subjects of His government must have spiritual dispositions, , and yield spiritual obedience- obedience proceeding from an enlightened understanding, an awakened conscience, and a renewed heart."- Abraham Booth 1788

Guthrie's "Christian's Great Interest."

Goodwin suffered from some of the same problems as Rutherford, though to a lesser degree; his earthly pen found it difficult to articulate what his heavenly mind perceived.

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Yours sincerely,


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