05.00. THE BEAUTIES OF THOMAS BOSTON
THE BEAUTIES OF
THOMAS BOSTON A selection of his writings
SCRIPTURE 1 The nature of that faith and obedience which the holy Scriptures teach...
2 The manner of discovering the true sense of Holy Scriptures...
3 Reason, not the supreme judge of controversies in religion...
4 To search and study the Scriptures is the duty of all classes of men...
5 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...
6 Weighty reasons for diligently reading and searching the Book of God...
7 Earnest exhortations and powerful motives to read and search the Book of God...
8 Useful direction for reading and searching the Scriptures...
PRAYER 9 Explanation of what it is to pray in the name of Jesus...
10 By what means believers pray in a manner acceptable to God...
11 What classes of men we are to pray for...
12 For what, and how, we are to pray...
13 The Necessity of secret prayer...
14 Important questions concerning secret prayer stated and answered...
15 Motives to secret prayer, with answers to objections commonly made to the performance of this duty...
16 The Only rule which God hath given to direct His people in their prayers to Him...
GOD 17 Directions to aid us in forming right notions of God as a spirit, infinitely pure and perfect...
18 In what God’s attribute of Wisdom is gloriously displayed...
19 In what God’s attribute of power is gloriously displayed...
20 In what God’s glorious attribute of holiness is manifested...
21 In what God’s awful attribute of justice is manifested...
22 Plausible objections to the justice of God stated and answered...
23 Important lessons from the justice of God...
24 In what the wondrous goodness of God is manifested...
25 In what God’s glorious attribute of truth is manifested...
26 There is, and can be, but one God...
27 The awful and destructive nature of atheism...
28 Directions how to guard against atheism...
29 Clear evidence of the Godhead subsisting in three persons...
30 How the three persons of the Godhead are distinguished...
31 Clear evidence of the three persons of the Godhead being one God...
32 The great importance of the doctrine of the holy Trinity... THE PUBLIC ORDINANCES 33 Interesting explanation of Acts 10:33...
34 Reasons why we should be careful to attend the public ordinances... In what respects we are before the Lord at public ordinances...
GOD’S DECREES 35 The chief end of God’s decrees explained...
36 The properties of God’s decrees explained...
Objections to God’s decrees stated and answered...
37 Important lessons drawn from the decrees of God...
GOD THE CREATOR 38 Ephesians 1:3,4,5, explained...
What sinners of mankind are chosen to... The glorious properties of God’s election of sinners... By whom God’s chosen are redeemed and saved...
Useful lessons from the doctrine of God’s election... THE COVENANT OF WORKS Genesis 2:17 explained...
Evidence of a covenant of works between God and the first man Adam... In the covenant of works, Adam was constituted a public person, and the representative of all his posterity... The justice and equity of Adam’s representation in the covenant of works... The nature of the obedience to which man is obliged by the covenant of works... The difference between Adam’s and the believer’s heaven... THE FALL OF MAN How man’s nature is wholly corrupted, and how man in his first sin trangressed the whole law...
Man’s natural state, a matter of deep lamentation... The necessity of having a special eye upon the corruption and sin of our nature... The reasons why God was pleased to deal with man in the way of a covenant...
Consideration of what our first parents fell from, and of what they fell into... A full explanation of the way by which the lamentable fall of our first parents happened...
Useful lessons from the doctrine of the fall... An affecting view of that in which the evil of sin doth lie...
How Adam’s first sin comes to be imputed to all his posterity...
Psalm 51:5 explained...
Original sin proved, in what this sin consists, and how far it extends...
Useful lessons from the doctrine of original sin... The dreadful misery into which all mankind are brought by Adam’s fall...
Useful lessons from the awful doctrine of man’s misery in his fallen state... A full answer to the question: who among men are still under the broken covenant of works, or still under the curse of the broken law?...
Reasons why many in a Christian land still remain under the broken covenant of works... An affecting view of the awful consequences of a sinner’s dying under the curse of the broken law... THE JUDGMENT OF THE WICKED A view of the wicked rising from the grave under the curse... The wicked, under the curse, appearing at the judgment seat of Christ... An affecting view of sinners lying for ever in hell, under the curse of the broken law... THE COVENANT OF GRACE 39 The Covenant of Grace, the grand foundation of all saving mercy to lost sinners of Adam’s race...
Instructions deduced from the consideration of saving mercy exhibited in the covenant of grace...
How Christ the Son of God became the second Adam, and how the covenant of grace was made with Him as the second Adam... For what, Christ, in the covenant of grace, became surety to God for His people... The absolute necessity of Christ priesthood...
Christ’s fulfilling all righteousness, as the Surety and Representative of His people, is the grand and only condition of the covenant of grace...
Several things of awful import, agreed to between the Father and the Son in the covenant of grace...
Instructive lessons from the consideration of the singular condition of the covenant of grace... The true character of those who are personally and savingly interested by faith in the covenant of grace...
Promises peculiar to Christ in the covenant of grace...
Promises of the covenant of grace to God’s elect while yet in their state of rebellion against Him:
(1) the promise of preservation...
(2) the promise of the Spirit...
Promises of the covenant of grace to God’s elect, form the time of actually embracing Christ till death:
(1) the promise of justification...
(2) the promise of a new and saving covenant-relation to God...
(3) the promise of sanctification...
(4) the promise of perseverance in grace...
(5) the promise of temporal benefits...
Promises of the covenant of grace to God’s elect, from the period of their death, through the ages of eternity:
(1) the promise of victory over death...
(2) the promise of everlasting life in heaven...
Sinners of mankind the object of the administration of the covenant of grace...
40 Christ as a Prophet administers the covenant of grace... The chief acts of Christ administering the covenant of grace as a King...
Discovery of the means by which sinners embrace the covenant of grace... The faith of the law necessary to our entering into the covenant of grace... The faith of the gospel necessary to our entering into the covenant of grace--this faith fully explained, and objections satisfactorily answered...
(1) the faith of Christ’s sufficiency...
(2) the faith of the gospel offer...
(3) the faith of our right to Christ...
(4) the faith of particular trust for salvation...