The Whole Works of Thomas Boston, Vol. 8: Human Nature in Its Fourfold State and a View of the Covenant of Grace

by Thomas Boston

Publisher:

George and Robert King

, 1850

Overview

Thomas Boston was a gifted preacher, a master of the biblical languages, an astute theologian, and an enormously influential Presbyterian minister. Jonathan Edwards called him “a truly great divine,” and Joel Beeke writes that “Boston’s sermons are models of sound exegesis combined with experiential piety and admonition.” Boston’s theologically rich and deeply pastoral writings make him essential for thinking Christians today.

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Key Features

• Provides a discourse on “Man’s Fourfold State”
• Provides a view of the covenant of grace
• Written by an influential Presbyterian minister

Contents

• Man’s Fourfold State
• A View of the Covenant of Grace from the Sacred Records

Top Highlights

“There are four things very necessary to be known by all that would see heaven: 1. What man was in the state of innocence, as God made him. 2. What he is in the state of corrupt nature, as he hath unmade himself. 3. What he must be in the state of grace, as created in Christ Jesus unto good works, if ever he be made a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light. 4. What he will be in his eternal state, as made by the Judge of all, either perfectly happy, or completely miserable, and that for ever.” (Page 9)

“1. That not God, but man himself was the cause of his ruin.” (Page 22)

“3. God made him Lord of the world, prince of the inferior creatures, universal Lord and emperor of the whole earth.” (Page 19)

“2. His will in all things was agreeable with the will of God, Eph. 6:6.” (Page 12)

“3. It was mutable; it was a righteousness that might be lost, as is manifested by the doleful event.” (Page 15)

Product Details

• Title: The Whole Works of Thomas Boston, Volume 8: Human Nature in Its Fourfold State and a View of the Covenant of Grace
• Author: Thomas Boston
• Series: The Whole Works of Thomas Boston
• Publisher: George and Robert King
• Print Publication Date: 1850
• Logos Release Date: 2012
• Pages: 604
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Presbyterian Church; Theology › 18th century
• Resource ID: LLS:BOSTON08
• Resource Type: text.monograph.collected-work
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:20:02Z

About Thomas Boston

Thomas Boston (1676–1732), was a Scottish church leader born at Duns. He was educated at Edinburgh, and licensed in 1697 by the presbytery of Chirnside. In 1699 he became minister of the small parish of Simprin, where there were only 90 examinable persons. In 1704 he found, while visiting a member of his flock, a book brought into Scotland by a commonwealth soldier. This was the famous Marrow of Modern Divinity, by Edward Fisher, a compendium of the opinions of leading Reformation divines on the doctrine of grace and the offer of the Gospel, which set off the Marrow Controversy.