Goode re­ceived his ear­ly ed­u­ca­tion first in Buck­ing­ham, then un­der Rev. T. Bull, a Dis­sent­ing min­is­ter at New­port Pag­nel. Hav­ing a strong in­clin­a­tion to the min­is­try, he left his fa­ther’s bus­i­ness and, in 1780, en­tered Mag­da­len Hall at Ox­ford (BA 1784, MA 1787). On tak­ing Ho­ly Or­ders in 1786, he be­came Cur­ate of Ab­bots Lang­ley, Hert­ford­shire; then of St. Ann’s, Black­friars; and sub­se­quent­ly Rec­tor of the lat­ter, add­ing there­to one or two lec­ture­ships. Goode’s in­ter­est in for­eign mis­sions took a prac­ti­cal turn in his help­ing found the Church Mis­sion­ary So­ci­e­ty. His works in­clude:

• Sermons, 1812
• An En­tire New Ver­sion of the Book of Psalms, 1811, 1813, 1816
• Essays on all the Script­ur­al Names and Ti­tles of Christ, re­print­ed from the Christ­ian Guard­i­an, 1813-1816
• Works, pub­lished to­ge­ther with a Me­moir in six vol­umes, 1822.

• Brown, pp. 30-2
• Julian, pp. 441-2, 921, 930, 1577, 1592

1. Crown His Head with Endless Bless­ing
2. Far as the Isles Ex­tend
3. How Blest Are They Whose Hearts Sin­cere
4. Who Blest the Man with Mer­cy Crowned
5. If the Lord Had Not Heard, May Is­ra­el Now Say
6. Jesus, with Thy Sal­va­tion blest
7. Let Thy Grace, Lord, Make Me
8. Lo in Geth­sem­a­ne’s Dark Shade
9. Lo! The Mighty God Ap­pear­ing
10. Lord, I De­light to Find My Place
11. Lord of Mer­cy, Just and Kind
12. Lord, Thy Church Hath Seen Thee Rise
13. Now Let Our Songs Arise
14. O My God, by Thee For­sak­en
15. Prepare a New Song Je­ho­vah to Praise
16. Songs Anew of Hon­or Fram­ing
17. Thou Gra­cious God and Kind
18. Thou Sin­ners Bold­ly Join
19. With Songs of Grate­ful Praise