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Excerpt from Human Nature in Its Four-Fold State, of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravity, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness or Misery: Subsisting in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, and All Mankind in the Future State, In Several Practical Discourses The modefi, and therefore hitherto anonymous Author of the following difcourfes. Mr. Thomas Boston, having handled this fubjeet, in preaching to his ...

Excerpt from The Whole Works of the Late Reverend Thomas Boston of Ettrick, Vol. 9: Now First Collected and Reprinted Without Abridgment, Including His Memoirs, Written by Himself After the ample recommendation by the author's near relation, and two other respectable clergymen, contained in the preceding pages, it will be necessary only farther to add, that these Discourses have been faithfully transcribed from the originals in the author's h...

CROOK IN THE LOT ''Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which He has made crooked'' (Ecclesiastes 7:3) One's lot consists of all the things in life that God has allotted to a person. So if one sees rough and painful happenings in life, looking to second causes first will but stir up fretting and fuming. But a look at the first cause will remind us that it is God that has caused the crook in our lot, If He is to work all thi...

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Excerpt from An Illustration of the Doctrines of the Christian Religion, Vol. 3 of 3: With Respect to Faith and Practice, Upon the Plan of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism, Comprehending a Complete Body of DivinityYour marriage-vows and voluntary covenant engage to thefe. Though we forget them, God does not, and will not.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbook...

Excerpt from Select Sermons There is a feeling in all men that they are sinners, a conviction that they have broken the law of God and are the objects of the divine displeasure. Much as man has fallen from that moral excellence which once surrounded him, as with a garment, it is not possible to obliterate all traces of his original grandeur. The temple which was once constructed by the Almighty to show forth his own glory is now in ruins, but...

Excerpt from A View of the Covenant of Works From the Sacred Records H E firit edition of this treatife on the Covenant of War/r: was publifhed in April 1772. In it there are feveral things wrong. This fecond edition has been carefully compared with the original manufcript, and purged from the errors of the firf't, and comes abroad along with a new edition of the Author's View of the Cave narzt qf Grace. Thefe two treatifes, to which we may j...

Excerpt from Everlasting Espousals: Being a Sermon Preached at the Administration of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, August 1714 This solemn ordinance we are called to partake is the feast of the espousals betwixt Jesus Christ and believers, as also the seal thereof, wherefore 'tis necessary the guests be such as are espoused to Christ, being brought 'into the bond of the marriage covenant, otherwise the seal is but prophaned. The text sh...

Excerpt from Human Nature in Its Fourfold State of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness or Misery, Subsisting in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State, In This is that state of innocence in which God set man down in the world. It is described in the Holy Scriptures with a running pen, in comparison of the following states, for it was o...

Excerpt from The Whole Works of the Late Reverend Thomas Boston, of Ettrick, Vol. 7: Now First Collected and Reprinted Without Abridgement, Including His Memoirs, Written by HimselfSect. 1. No rest for the soul till it come to God, 372. - 2. How the soul is kept from rest in God, 374. - 3. God in Christ the only true rest for the soul, 380.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more a...

Excerpt from A General Account of My Life The desirableness of re-publishing so interesting a book as Boston's "Memoirs, " is a thing which is self-evident. The advisability at this date of such a proposal may seem doubtful, but when the publisher had considered the facts of the case, he was encouraged to proceed. Although, since Boston's day, many books once famous have vanished in darkness, and many literary reputations have gone under, it...

Excerpt from Primitiæ& Ultima, Vol. 2 of 3: Or the Early Labours and Last Remains That Will Meet the Public Eye, in Several Practical Discourses, Eminently Calculated for Alarming Sinners and Hypocrites in Zion, and Affording Instruction, Correction, and Consolation, to Genuine Delivers About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduc...

Excerpt from Primitiae Et Ultima, or the Early Labours and Last Remains That Will Meet the Public Eye, Vol. 3 of 3 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imp...

Excerpt from The Christian Life Delineated in the Principal Lines Thereof, Both as to Its Rise and Progress: In Several Practical Discourses Though the character and reputation of the venerable and great roan whose name these sermons bear, both as a scholar and a divine, is so well established, as to need no recommendation to such as are acquainted with his other valuable performances, especially from so mean and obscure a hand as mine, yet b...

Excerpt from The Crook in the Lot I am gratified to learn that you are about to publish Boston's "Crook in the Lot." Few books contain so much valuable matter within the same space. It may be considered an exposition of God's providence towards his people, while performing their pilgrimage through this vale of tears, and was evidently the fruit of much observation of the dispensations of God, and of profound acquaintance with the Holy Scriptu...