077. Patience And Its Perfect Work (James 1:1-5)

PATIENCE AND ITS PERFECT WORK,

UNDER SUDDEN AND SORE TRIALS; Being An Exposition Of James 1:1-5 For a striking account of the occasion of this remarkable Treatise, see Memoir of Dr. Goodwin, by his son, ante, p. lxxiv. It was published anonymously in a small volume (18mo), and is one of the rarest of all Goodwin’s pieces. As an evidence of its extreme scarcity, besides the very high price it fetches, equivalent to the cost of the entire Works of Goodwin in this Series, it may be mentioned that it is usually spoken of by bibliographers and others as a Sermon merely, shewing that they had never seen it. For the use of the copy from which our reprint is given, we are indebted to the rich Puritan collection of the Rev. A. B. Grosart, Kinross.