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The Beauties of Boston: A Selection of the Writings of Thomas Boston

Thomas Boston (Author); Samuel MacMillan (Editor)

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Binding: Hardcover
Page Count: 616
Publisher: Christian Heritage
ISBN#: 0906731011

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Description: This is a collection of the key thinking of Thomas Boston, gathered by Samuel MacMillan. It is a great introduction to the practical theology of this Scottish divine.

"The Beauties , originally published in 1831, was compiled by the Rev. Samuel M’Millan with the worthy object of presenting the public with a compend of Bostonian theology, which he hoped would effect much spiritual good, and countervail ‘leaven of the Arminian scheme.’ In his preface, M’Millan wrote: ‘Boston was eminently blessed with a happy talent for using his great learning just as every godly minister should use it; not in flights of oratory, calculated to dazzle and astonish, but in bringing down the high mysteries of the gospel to the common capacity and in making them quite intelligible to the meanest understanding.’ It was the editor’s prayer that this volume would be greatly blessed by God in turning sinners from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God. This, we may add, is the prayer of the present publishers."
--From the Foreword by Ian R. Tallach

Contents

[Note: To provide a representative sampling, the complete subheadings are given for the first three sections; after this, only the main heading of each section is listed.]

FOREWORD

SCRIPTURE
-The nature of that faith and obedience which the holy Scriptures teach
-The manner of discovering the true sense of holy Scripture
-Reason not the supreme judge of controversies in religion
-To search and study the Scriptures is the duty of all classes of men
-Several things of great importance pre-supposed in these words, Isaiah 34.16: ‘Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read,’ etc.
-Weighty reasons for diligently reading and searching the Book of God
-Earnest exhortations and powerful motives to read and search the Book of God
-Useful directions for reading and searching the Scriptures

PRAYER
-Explanation of what it is to pray in the name of Christ
-By what means believers pray in a manner acceptable to God
-What classes of men we are to pray for
-For what, and how, we are to pray
-The necessity of secret prayer
-Important questions concerning secret prayer stated and answered
-Motives to secret prayer, with answers to objections commonly made to the performance of this duty
-The only rule which God hath given to direct His people in their prayers to Him

GOD
-Directions to aid us in forming right notions of God as a spirit, infinitely pure and perfect
-In what God’s attribute of wisdom is gloriously displayed
-In what God’s attribute of power is gloriously displayed
-In what God’s glorious attribute of holiness is manifested
-Plausible objections to the justice of God stated and answered
-Important lessons from the justice of God
-In what the wondrous goodness of God is manifested
-In what God’s glorious attribute of truth is manifested
-There is, and can be, but one God
-The awful and destructive nature of atheism
-Directions how to guard against atheism
-Clear evidence of the Godhead subsisting in three persons
-How the three persons of the Godhead are distinguished
-Clear evidence of the three persons of the Godhead being one God
-The great importance of the doctrine of the holy Trinity

THE PUBLIC ORDINANCES

GOD’S DECREES

GOD THE CREATOR

CHRIST’S PRIESTHOOD

BELIEVING IN CHRIST

GOD’S PROVIDENCE

ELECTION

THE COVENANT OF WORKS

THE FALL OF MAN

THE JUDGMENT OF THE WICKED

THE COVENANT OF GRACE
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