The Works of Thomas Goodwin - Sometime President of Magdalene College, Oxford #255909

Though we have no positive information that the parents of Good win avowedly belonged to the Puritan party, still, from the little that we do know Of them, there can be no doubt that they were in fluenced by the evangelical principles which so generally prevailed in their neighbourhood. They piously educated their son, making him from his infancy acquainted with the Scriptures, and, after the manner of the Puritans Of that age, dedicating him in his early boy hood to the work of the ministry.