Thomas Boston Quotes

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• Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.
• Go where thou wilt, thou canst not go out of thy Father's ground.
• Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants.
• What an honourable thing is it to be fishers of men! How great an honour shouldst thou esteem it, to be a catcher of souls!…
• O what hardness of heart mayst thou see in every corner whither thou goest, and where thou preachest, most part being as unconcerned as the…
• Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts.
• The regenerate man's desires are rectified; they are set on God himself, and the things above... Before, he saw no beauty in Christ, for which…
• If a man be new-born, he will desire the sincere milk of the word.
• In regeneration, the mind is enlightened in the knowledge of spiritual things... The will is renewed... The will is cured of its utter inability to…
• It is our duty to look to God's commands, and not to His decrees; to our own duty, and not to His purposes. The decrees…
• Has God decreed all things that come to pass? Then there is nothing that falls out by chance, nor are we to ascribe what we…
• Again, the glory of one attribute is more seen in one work than in another: in some things there is more of His goodness, in…
• Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should…
• Whoever be the instruments of any good to us, of whatever sort, we must look above them, and eye the hand and counsel of God…
• Free grace will fix those, whom free will shook down into a gulph of misery.
• As the corruption of our nature shews the absolute necessity of regeneration, so the absolute necessity of regeneration plainly proves the corruption of our nature;…
• For the turning away of the simple, shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
• Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.
• Saving faith is the faith of God's elect; the special gift of God to them, wrought in them by his Spirit.
• Believing, repenting, and the like, are the product of the new nature; and can never be produced by the old corrupt nature... as the child…

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