The gospel casts out a rope to hale sinners to land; but the sinner has no hands to lay hold on it;… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other. — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
Sinners in their natural state lie dead, lifeless, and moveless; they can no more believe in Christ, nor repent, than a dead… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace. — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
Saving faith is the faith of God's elect; the special gift of God to them, wrought in them by his Spirit. — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
Again, the glory of one attribute is more seen in one work than in another: in some things there is more of His goodness,… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
As the corruption of our nature shews the absolute necessity of regeneration, so the absolute necessity of regeneration plainly proves the corruption of our… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
The believer is sensible of his infirmities, for it is supposed that he is wrestling under them. He sees, he feels, that he is… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
“Remember, whatever be your attainments, gifts, or graces, ye are decked with borrowed feathers: be not proud of them.” — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
“As to the crook in your lot, God has made it; and it must continue while He will have it so. Should you ply… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
In regeneration, the mind is enlightened in the knowledge of spiritual things... The will is renewed... The will is cured of its utter inability… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
