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 cannot be active in his own generation, so a man cannot be active in his own regeneration. The heart is shut against Christ: man cannot open it, only God can do it by his grace.
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
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…
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.
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.
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 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.
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…
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 other things more of His… - Thomas Boston
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 other things more of His…
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