Ian Tallach, in the Foreword to The Beauties of Thomas Boston (p. xii) states,
Of the many great divines who have adorned the ecclesiastical and theological scene in Scotland, Thomas Boston must be reckoned as among the greatest. Dr. Andrew Thomson who wrote Thomas Boston: His Life and Times, asserts that 'if Scotland had been searched during the earlier part of the eighteenth century there was not a minister of Christ within its bounds who, alike in personal character and in the discharge of his pastoral functions, approached nearer the apostolic model than did this man of God.' Volumes in this set are divided along the following lines:
Volume 1 - Commentary on the Shorter Catechism (volume one)
Volume 2 - Commentary on the Shorter Catechism (volume two)
Volume 3 - Sermons, Chiefly on Communion Occasions, The Crook in the Lot
Volume 4 - Sermons on Various Practical Subjects
Volume 5 - The Art of Man-Fishing, The Distinguishing Characteristics of True Believers, The State and Character of True Believers
Volume 6 - Miscellaneous Questions, Miscellaneous Tracts, Paraphrase on the Epistle to the Galatians, Practical Discourses
Volume 7 - A Brief Explication of the First Part of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism, The Marrow of Modern Divinity (On the Covenants, the Gospel and the Law), Everlasting Espousals, The Mystery of Christ in the Form of a Servant, The Peculiar Mercy and Business of Life Opened Up and Applied, The Evil and Danger of Schism (see Clarkson's Plain Reasons for a refutation), The Necessity and Foundations of a Throne of Grace for the Behoof of Poor Sinners, The Evidences and Causes of the Decay of Religion in the Soul Discovered (and Its Cure)
Volume 8 - Human Nature in Its Fourfold State, A View of the Covenant of Grace from the Sacred Records
Volume 9 - Sermons on Various Practical Subjects
Volume 10 - Sermons on Various Practical Subjects, Sermons on the Name and Attributes of Christ, The Christian Life Delineated in Several Practical Discourses
Volume 11 - Discourses on Prayer, A View of the Covenant of Works from the Sacred Records, A Memorial Concerning Personal and Family Fasting and Humiliation,
Volume 12 - The Author's Address to His Children, Memoirs
There are 7,376 pages in the complete 12 volume set.
Boston (1676-1732) was a Scottish Puritan preacher. He was a first-class Hebrew scholar. Jonathan Edwards described Boston as ''a truly great divine. The author spent twelve years writing, and perfecting, this book It was received with praise on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Boston wrote several other books also.
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