Goodwin, John 1594?-1665

Overview

Works:	401 works in 1,340 publications in 2 languages and 22,859 library holdings
Genres:	History Controversial literature Sermons Commentaries Sources Church history Pamphlets Criticism, interpretation, etc Biography
Roles:	Author, Editor, Translator

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Most widely held works about John Goodwin

John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution : religion and intellectual change in seventeenth-century England by John Coffey( )
Heretics within : Anthony Wotton, John Goodwin, and the orthodox divines by David Parnham( )
Coleman-street conclave visited, and, that grand imposter, the schismaticks cheater in chief (who hath long, slily lurked therein) truly and duly discovered : containing a most palpable and plain display of Mr. John Goodwin's self-conviction (under his own hand-writing) and of the notorious heresies, errours, malice, pride, and hypocrisie of his most huge garagantua, in falsly pretended piety, to the lamentable misleading of his too-too credulous soul-murthered proselytes of Coleman-street & elsewhere : collected, principally, out of his own big-bragadochio and wavelike-swelling and swaggering writings, full-fraught with six-footed terms, and flashie rhetoricall phrases, far more than solid and sacred truths, and may fitly serve (if it be the Lords will) like Belshazzars hand-writing, on the wall of his conscience, to strike terrour and shame into his own soul, and shamelesse face, and to un-deceive his most miserably cheated and inchanted, or bewitched followers by John Vicars( )
As you vvere, or, A reducing, if possibly any, seduc't ones, to facing about, turning head, front against God, by the recrimination, so intended, upon Mr. J.G., Pastor of the church in Colmanstreet, in point of fighting against God by Ezekias Woodward( )
A compendious answer to a book called A brief survay of the judgement of Mr. John Goodvvin, and the Church of God walking with him : touching their reasons of dissenting from many of their brethren, in these imprtant heads of doctrine; 1. Election and reprobation. 2. The death of Christ. 3. The grace of God in and about conversion. 4. The liberty or power of the will, or of the creature man. 5. The perseverance of the saints. VVherein the absurdities of all their dissenting doctrines are clearly exhibited, by a loving friend to the truth it self, Ellis Bradshaw. touching their reasons of dissenting from many of their brethren, in these imprtant heads of doctrine; 1. Election and reprobation. 2. The death of Christ. 3. The grace of God in and about conversion. 4. The liberty or power of the will, or of the creature man. 5. The perseverance of the saints. VVherein the absurdities of all their dissenting doctrines are clearly exhibited, by a loving friend to the truth it self, Ellis Bradshaw by Ellis Bradshaw( )

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Most widely held works by John Goodwin

Impvtatio fidei, or, A treatise of justification : wherein ye imputation of faith for righteousness (mentioned Rom. 43.5.) is explained & also yt great question largly handled whether, ye active obedience of Christ performed to ye morall law be imputed in justification or noe : or how it is imputed : wherein likewise many other difficulties and questions touching yt great business of justification : viz, ye matter & forme thereof etc are opened & cleared : together with ye explication of diverse scriptures wch partly speake partly seeme to speake to the matter herein discussed by John Goodwin( )

27 editions published between 1642 and 1967 in English and held by 433 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A moderate ansvver to Mr. Prins full reply to Certaine observations on his first twelve questions : vvherein all his reasons and obiections are candidly examined and refuted : a short description of the congregationall way discovered : some arguments for indulgence tender consciences modestly propounded by Henry Robinson( )

19 editions published between 1645 and 1967 in English and held by 424 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A defence of the true sence and meaning of the words of the Holy Apostle, Rom. chap. 4, ver. 3, 5, 9 : in an answer to sundry arguments gathered from the forenamed Scriptures by Mr. Iohn Goodwin, which answer was first dispersed without the authors name, but since acknowledged by Mr George Walker : together with a reply to the former answer, or, animadversions upon some of the looser and fouler passages thereof by George Walker( )

13 editions published between 1641 and 1961 in English and held by 393 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The butchers blessing, or, The bloody jntentions of Romish cavaliers against the city of London above other places : demonstrated by 5 arguments to the Right Honourable the Lord Major, the sheriffes and other the religious and worthy inhabitants of the said city : delivered by way of prologue before a sermon the last publique fast-day by John Goodwin( )

14 editions published between 1642 and 1967 in English and held by 378 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Innocency and truth triumphing together, or, The latter part of an answer to the back-part of a discourse, lately published by William Prynne Esquire, called, A full reply, &c. : beginning at the foot of p. 17 of the said discourse with this title or superscription, Certain brief animadversions on Mr. John Goodwins Theomachia : wherein the arguemntative part of the said animadversions is examined : together with some few animadversions upon some former passages in the said reply by John Goodwin( )

12 editions published between 1645 and 1967 in English and held by 372 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Os ossorianvm, or, A bone for a bishop to pick being a vindication of some passages in a treatise lately published, called Anti-cavalierisme, from the impertinant and importune exceptions of Gr. Williams, the author of the Grand rebellion, calling himselfe by the name of the L. Bishop of Ossory : wherein likewise, the malignitie of severall passages in the said Grand rebellion against the Parliament is discovered, and that question further cleared, how and in what sense kingly government may be said to be the ordinance of God, so that it may indifferently serve for an answer to that whole discourse by John Goodwin( )

16 editions published between 1643 and 1967 in English and held by 359 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cretensis, or, A briefe answer to an ulcerous treatise lately published by Mr. Thomas Edwards, intituled Gangræna : calculated for the meridian of such passages in the said treatise which relate to Mr. John Goodwin, but may without any sensible error indifferently serve for the whole tract : wherein some of the best means for the cure of the said dangerous ulcer called gangræna, and to prevent the spreading of it to the danger of the precious soules of men, are clearly opened, and effectually applied by John Goodwin( )

29 editions published between 1646 and 1981 in English and held by 318 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Right and might well met : or, a briefe and unpartiall enquiry into the late and present proceedings of the army under the command of his excellency the Lord Fairfax, wherein the equity and regularnesse of the said proceedings are demonstratively vindicated upon undeniable principles, as well of reason, as religion, together with satisfactory answers to all materiall objections against them by John Goodwin( )

21 editions published in 1648 in English and held by 316 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Anapologesiates antapologias, or, The inexcusablenesse of that grand accusation of the brethren, called Antapologia : complaining, as well of the want of truth as of Christianity, in many of the reports and assertions made in the said discourse ... and further proving the utter insufficiency of the Antapologist for his great undertaking in the behalfe of the Presbyterian cause : with answers to his arguments or reasons ... for support thereof in sundry particulars, and more especially in the point of non-toleration by John Goodwin( )

14 editions published between 1646 and 1965 in English and held by 296 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Theomachia, or, The grand imprudence of men running the hazard of fighting against God in suppressing any way, doctrine or practice concerning which they know not certainly whether it be from God or no : being the substance of two sermons preached in Colemanstreet upon occasion of the late disaster sustained in the west, with some necessary enlargements thereunto by John Goodwin( )

18 editions published between 1644 and 1984 in English and held by 292 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The divine authority of the Scriptures asserted, or, The great charter of the worlds blessednes vindicated : being a discourse of soveraigne use and service in these times ... : together with two tables annexed, the former, of the contents, and severall arguments more largely prosecuted in the treatise, the later, of such texts of Scripture unto which some light is given therein by John Goodwin( )

19 editions published between 1648 and 2010 in English and held by 287 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A quære concerning the church-covenant practised in the separate congregations : sent with a letter thereunto annexed, from J.G. to T.G., wherein is proved that there is much evill and manifold inconveniences in the exacting and urging such a covenant by John Goodwin( )

17 editions published between 1643 and 1971 in English and held by 275 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Apolytrōsis apolytrōseōs, or, Redemption redeemed : wherein the most glorious work of the redemption of the world by Jesus Christ is ... vindicated and asserted ... : together with a ... discussion of the great questions ... concerning election & reprobation ... : with three tables annexed for the readers accommodation by John Goodwin( )

22 editions published between 1651 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 273 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Anti-cavalierisme, or, Truth pleading as well the necessity, as the lawfulness of this present vvar : for the suppressing of that butcherly brood of cavaliering incendiaries, who are now hammering England, to make an Ireland of it ... by John Goodwin( )

16 editions published between 1642 and 1963 in English and Undetermined and held by 272 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Calumny arraign'd and cast, or, A briefe answer to some extravagant and rank passages, lately fallen from the pen of William Prynne, Esquire in a late discourse entituled, Truth triumphing over falshood, & c against Mr. John Goodwin, minister of the gospel : wherein the loyall, unfeigned and unstained affection of the said John Goodwin to the Parliament and civill magistracie is irrefragably and fully vindicated and asserted against those broad and unchristian imputations most untruly suggested in the said discourse against him by John Goodwin( )

12 editions published between 1645 and 1967 in English and held by 268 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Pleroma to Pneumatikon, or, A being filled with the Spirit : wherein is proved that it is a duty incumbent on all men (especially believers) that they be filled with the spirit of God ... : as also the divinity, or Godhead of the Holy Ghost asserted ... : the necessity of the ministry of the Gospel (called the ministry of the Spirit) discussed ... : all heretofore delivered in several sermons from Ephes. 5. 18 by John Goodwin( )

20 editions published between 1670 and 2012 in English and Latin and held by 267 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Irelands advocate, or, A sermon preached vpon Novem. 14, 1641 to promote the contributions by way of lending for the present reliefe of the Protestants party in Ireland by John Goodwin( )

9 editions published between 1641 and 1967 in English and held by 264 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

M.S. to A.S. with a plea for libertie of conscience in a church way against the cavils of A.S. : and observations on his considerations and annotations upon the apologeticall narration, humbly submitted to the judgements of all rationall and moderate men in the world : with some modest and innocent touches on the letter from Zealand and Mr. Parker's from New-England by John Goodwin( )

10 editions published between 1644 and 1967 in English and held by 263 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The returne of mercies, or, The saints advantage by losses : delivered in sundry sermons upon Philemon, verse 15 by John Goodwin( )

9 editions published in 1641 in English and held by 260 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Prelatique preachers none of Christ's teachers, or, A Disswasive unto the people of God from attending the ministry (so called) of those, who preach by verture of an (Apocryphal) ordination, received from an order of men, commonly stiled Lord Bishops : wherein arguments are tendered to their serious considerations, by way of motive against that practice by John Goodwin( )

12 editions published between 1663 and 1980 in English and held by 260 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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