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! We are workers together with God, says the apostle. If God has ever so honoured thee, O that thou knewest it, that thou mightst bless his holy name, that ever made such a poor fool as thee to be a co-worker with him. God has owned thee to do good to those who were before caught. O my soul, bless thou the Lord. Lord, what am I, or what is my father's house, that thou hast brought me to this?
Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts. - Thomas Boston
Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts.
- Thomas Boston
Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery. - Thomas Boston
Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery.
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 to bring you to be… - Thomas Boston
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 to bring you to be…
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 gave them to the So… - Thomas Boston
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 gave them to the So…
The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician. - Thomas Boston
The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician.
Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness. - Thomas Boston
Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.
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
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.
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 own and reverence His hand in it. - Thomas Boston
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 own and reverence His hand in it.
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 this is the sin th… - Thomas Boston
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 this is the sin th…
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