Writings of Thomas Boston

1 01.00 Human Nature in its Fourfold State 2 01.01 The State of Innocence 3 01.02. The State of NATURE 4 01.02a The SINFULNESS of man's natural state 5 01.02a1 The SINFULNESS of man's natural statecont'd 6 01.02a2 The SINFULNESS of man's natural state cont'd 7 01.02a3 The SINFULNESS of man's natural statecont'd 8 01.02a3 The SINFULNESS of man's natural statecont'd1 9 01.02b1 2. The MISERY of man's natural state 10 01.02b1 2. The MISERY of man's natural state con 11 01.02c. The INABILITY of man's natural state 12 01.03. The State of GRACE 13 01.03a Regeneration 14 01.03a Regeneration cont'd 15 01.03b MYSTICAL UNION between Christ and Believers 16 01.03b MYSTICAL UNION between Christ and Believers1 17 01.03b MYSTICAL UNION between Christ and Believers2 18 01.04 The Eternal State 19 01.04a Death 20 01.04a Death CONTD 21 01.04b The difference between the Righteous 22 01.04b The difference between the Righteous contd 23 01.04c Resurrection 24 01.04d The General Judgment 25 01.04d The General Judgment cont'd 26 01.04e Heaven 27 01.04e Heaven cont'd 28 01.04f Hell 29 01.04f Hell cont'd 30 02.00. Of God 31 02.01. Of God and His Perfections 32 02.02. Of the Holy Trinity 33 02.03. Of the Providence of God 34 02.04. Of the Unity of God 35 02.05. Of the Work of Creation 36 03.00. Of Sin 37 03.01. Of Sin in General 38 03.02. Of Our Fall in Adam 39 03.03. Of the First Sin in Particular 40 04.00. The Art of Man Fishing 41 04.00i. Introduction 42 04.01. PART 1: THE PROMISE AND THE DUTY 43 04.02. PART 2: HOW MAY I COME BY THIS ART? 44 05.00. THE BEAUTIES OF THOMAS BOSTON 45 05.01. THE NATURE OF THAT FAITH AND OBEDIENCE WHWICH THE HOLY SCRIPTURE TEACHES 46 05.02. THE MANNER OF DISCOVERING THE TRUE SENSE OF HOLY SCRIPTURES 47 05.03. REASON NOT THE SUPREME JUDGE OF CONTROVERSIES IN RELIGION 48 05.04. TO SEARCH AND STUDY THE SCRIPTURES IS THE DUTY OF ALL CLASSES OF MEN 49 05.05. SEVERAL THINGS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE PRE-SUPPOSED IN THESE WORDS... 50 05.06. Weighty reasons for diligently reading and searching the Book of God 51 05.07. Earnest exhortations and powerful motives to read and search the Book of God. 52 05.08. Useful Directions for Reading and Searching the Scriptures 53 05.09. EXPLANATION OF WHAT IT IS TO PRAY IN THE NAME OF JESUS 54 05.10. By what means Believers pray in a manner acceptable to God 55 05.11. What classes of Men we are to pray for. 56 05.12. For What, And How We Are To Pray. 57 05.13. THE NECESSITY OF SECRET PRAYER. 58 05.14. Important Questions concerning Secret Prayer stated and answered. 59 05.15. Motives To Secret Prayer, With Answers To Objections Commonly Made..... 60 05.16. The Only Rule Which God Hath Given to Direct His People In Their Prayers to Him 61 05.17. Directions To Aid Us In Forming Right Notions Of God As A Spirit, 62 05.18. In what God's attribute of Wisdom is gloriously 63 05.19. In What God's Attribute Of Power Is Gloriously 64 05.20. In what God's glorious attribute of holiness 65 05.21. In what God's awful attribute of justice 66 05.22. Plausible objections to the justice of God 67 05.23. Important lessons from the justice of God... 68 05.24. In what the wondrous goodness of God 69 05.25. In what God's glorious attribute of truth 70 05.26. There is, and can be, but one God... 71 05.27. The awful and destructive nature of atheism... 72 05.28. Directions how to guard against atheism... 73 05.29. Clear evidence of the Godhead subsisting 74 05.30. How the three persons of the Godhead are 75 05.31. Clear evidence of the three persons 76 05.32. The great importance of the doctrine of the 77 05.33. Interesting explanation of Acts 10:33 78 05.34. Reasons why we should be careful to attend 79 05.35. The chief end of God's decrees explained 80 05.36. The properties of God's decrees explained 81 05.37. Important lessons drawn from the decrees 82 05.38. Ephesians 1:3,4,5, explained... 83 06.00. The Crook in the Lot 84 06.01. Part 1 85 06.01a. Part 1 cont'd 86 06.02. Part 2 87 06.02a. Part 2 cont'd 88 06.03. Part 3 89 06.03a. Part 3 cont'd 90 07.00. The Sinfulness of Man's Natural State 91 07.00i. Introduction to the Doctrine 92 07.01. The Corruption of the Understanding 93 07.02. The Corruption of the Will 94 07.02a. The Corruption of the Will contd 95 07.03. The Corruption of the Affections 96 07.04. DOCTRINE: God takes special notice of our 97 S. Christ's Name Wonderful 98 S. Come Unto Me All Ye That Labour 99 S. God Alone Created the World 100 S. How We Ought to Think about God's Providence 101 S. How the Spirit Enables Us to Pray 102 S. Important Lessons Drawn from the Decrees of God 103 S. Man's Utter Inability to Rescue Himself 104 S. Of Election to Everlasting Life 105 S. Of Justification 106 S. Of Man's Chief End and Happiness 107 S. Of The Covenant Of Works 108 S. Of The Holy Trinity 109 S. Of the Creation of Man 110 S. Of the Decrees of God 111 S. Of the Duty Which God Requireth of Man 112 S. Of the Fall of Our First Parents 113 S. Of the First Sin in Particular 114 S. Of the Providence of God 115 S. Of the Unity of God 116 S. Of the Work of Creation 117 S. Praying in the Name of Christ 118 S. Reason not the Supreme Judge of Controversies in Religion 119 S. Search from the Book of the Lord 120 S. The Divine Authority of the Scripture 121 S. The Evil and Danger of Schism 122 S. The Manner of Discovering the True Sense of Holy Scripture 123 S. The Nature of that Faith and Obedience which the Holy Scriptures Teach 124 S. The Old and New Man in Believers 125 S. The Properties Of God's Decrees Explained 126 S. The Purpose of God's Decrees 127 S. The Scope of the Scriptures 128 S. The Scriptures the Book of the Lord 129 S. The Utility of the Scripture as a Rule 130 S. The Wise Observation of Providences Illustrated and Enforced 131 S. To Search and Study the Scriptures is the Duty of All Classes of Men 132 S. Treatise on the 4th Commandment 133 S. Useful Directions For Reading and Searching the Scriptures 134 S. Ye Must Be Born Again