![glory . . . [and] an iron chain of reprobation, which begins in God’s own voluntary preterition, and is carried on in the creature’s voluntary apos-tasy, and endeth in their just damnation.](https://images.tandf.co.uk/common/jackets/crclarge/978041527/9780415271936.jpg "glory . . . [and] an iron chain of reprobation, which begins in God’s own voluntary preterition, and is carried on in the creature’s voluntary apos-tasy, and endeth in their just damnation.")
ABSTRACT
Robert Harris ‘marked down his evidences for heaven . . . often subscribed in a book which he had for the purpose’.17 Richard Sibbes also encouraged his readers to ‘keep diaries of [God’s] mercies and favours every day’.18 As Goodwin’s son claimed in writing his father’s biography, ‘nothing so clearly and fully unfolds the work of the Holy Spirit, and the exercise of the soul, in conversion, as a person’s diary’.19
