The Return of Prayers

by Thomas Goodwin

This classic book by Thomas Goodwin shows us the riches that are available to us through prayer. Focusing not only on how we may approach God in prayer, but also on how we know that God has indeed answered our prayers. There is a wealth of blessing here.

This renowned Puritan in his epistle dedicatory describes prayer as a "thriving trade of intercourse with God." The returns are better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. It is the praying Christian that alone employs the riches of the promises, which we usually let lie by us, like dead stock, unimproved. The purpose of this treatise is to convince believers of the grand importance of this duty, which is so full of gain: to discover the causes of neglect of prayer, and to remove temptations and discouragements in the practice of it.

80 pages, Paperback

Published January 8, 2021

About the author

Thomas Goodwin known as 'the Elder', was an English Puritan theologian and preacher, and an important leader of religious Independents. He served as chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, and was imposed by Parliament as President of Magdalen College, Oxford in 1650. Christopher Hill places Goodwin in the ‘main stream of Puritan thought’.