Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Piety of Thomas Goodwin (1600-1680)
Christ Excels Joseph
Christ Longs for His Own Return
Sitting in Heaven
Crying Us into Heaven
Christ’s Gift
Christ Dwelling in Our Hearts by Faith
Christ’s Perfections are our Perfections
Three Hours
Christ by Piecemeal
Christ, the Marrow of the Gospel
Reconciliation Through Christ
“Christ above Moses”
God’s Greatest Work (1)
God’s Greatest Work (2)
Possessing Christ by Faith
One Foot on Christ, Another on Yourself?
No Union, No Justification
Communion with Christ
Elected to Inseparable Union with Christ
Purchasing and Bestowing
Gathered to Christ or Satan?
Sitting at the Right Hand
Summed up in Christ
Christ Putting Beauty on the Body
Living Like Christ
The Revenues of His Death
Joy in God’s Glory
Weak, But Accepted for Christ’s Sake
Christ’s Works of Glory
Restoring Beauty to His Bride
“The Son’s Special Act”
Spirit-Christology
Never Leaving Christ Out
The Mystery of His Will in Christ
Treasures in Heaven
Series Description
Seeking, then, both to honor the past and yet not idolize it, we are issuing these books in the series Profiles in Reformed Spirituality . The design is to introduce the spirituality and piety of the Reformed Profiles in Reformed Spirituality tradition by presenting descriptions of the lives of notable Christians with select passages from their works. This combination of biographical sketches and collected portions from primary sources gives a taste of the subjects’ contributions to our spiritual heritage and some direction as to how the reader can find further edification through their works. It is the hope of the publishers that this series will provide riches for those areas where we are poor and light of day where we are stumbling in the deepening twilight.
Joel R. Beeke (PhD, Westminster Seminary) is chancellor and professor of homiletics and systematic and practical theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, a pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, board chairman of Reformation Heritage Books, editor of Puritan Reformed Journal and Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, a frequent speaker at Reformed conferences around the world, and a prolific author.
Mark Jones (Ph.D., Leiden, 2009) has been the minister at Faith Vancouver Presbyterian Church (PCA), Canada since 2007. He is also Research Associate in the Faculty of Theology at the University of the Free State (Bloemfontein) and Lecturer in Dogmatic Theology at John Wycliffe Theological College, in association with North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa.