The works of Thomas Goodwin DD - 1864 Author:Thomas Goodwin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK III. Tlie infinity of grace in God's choosing us, proved frnm the nature of election, hot h simply considered in itself, and also compared with that ... more »other act of riyrobation. CHAPTER I. The grace of electing us simply considered, and the greatness of it proved frnm the greatness of the benefit. I. Let us consider, it is ' the election only. Crities will put upon it a metonymy in rhetoric, as the creation for the creatures ; but in God's book and rhetoric it speaks and denotes a grandness put upon the persons chosen. To such, Elect is the greatest word can be asked of us. One of Christ's most eminent titles, Isa. xl. 1, ' mine elect' (speaking of Christ) ; and even the Pharisees, apprehending that the Messiah should be some eminently eminent person, expressed it by this, ' The Christ whom God hath chosen,' Luke xxiii. 85. II. Let us consider, Who hath chosen ? God : 1 Thes. i. 5, ' Knowing your election of God.' In all choices the person choosing puts a value on the chosen, and upon the act. To be made choice of by a king unto such an office-employment, or by a whole state that are wise and honourable ; how doth it dignify a man ! It is one of Titus'a commendations : 2 Cor. viii. 19, ' who was also chosen of the churches,'« less