Thomas Boston Quotes

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• 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. Converting
• The believer is sensible of his infirmities, for it is supposed that he is wrestling under them. He sees, he feels, that he is not… Believer
• The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician. Discovers
• Ye are God's building -- All hands of the glorious Trinity are at work in this building. The Father chose the objects of mercy, and… All
• No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but only… All
• Sinners in their natural state lie dead, lifeless, and moveless; they can no more believe in Christ, nor repent, than a dead man can speak… Adam
• Many will be affected with some gross sins of theirs against the law, who never see the venom of their unbelief of the gospel. But… Affected
• Persuade yourselves, that the faith of the gospel is beyond the power of nature; that there is a necessity of a power from on high… Believe
• The gospel casts out a rope to hale sinners to land; but the sinner has no hands to lay hold on it; his very faith… Casts
• There is no true believing or trusting to the report of the gospel, but what is the effect of the working of a divine power… Believe
• God shall not pity them but laugh at their calamity. The righteous company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's judgment, and shall… Calamity
• God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other. God
• A fatal recovery from a promising illness Fatal

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