Thomas Boston

Come away to Christ freely from your sins, make your most beloved lusts stepping-stones, over the belly of which you will come to his table, putting a bill of divorce into the hand of them all, with a sincere resolution, through grace, never to entertain them willingly again.

If repentance be the emptying of the soul by the dropping of the tears of godly sorrow, it is faith that generates them in the heart. It is faith that melts the hard heart, which droppeth in repentance.

The grace of God deadens the man’s affections to the things on earth, looses the lively firm hold which the heart took of these things, so the heart falls off from them to God himself, and the things above.

I would rather have a cross of His choosing than a crown of mine own choosing.

There is in Christ a suitable remedy for every disorder. Here, the dead soul may have life; the blind, light; the naked, a garment; the poor, riches; the scorched soul, refreshment; the pained, ease; the weak, strength.

Whosoever in the world shall die, they shall not die because there was no help for their case in the Saviour, but because they did not employ him or put their case in his hand.

There is no case to be found in the world, where there isn't a remedy to be found in Christ.

The covenant of grace hath no threatenings of eternal wrath, the gospel damns no man, it needs not, for the law will do it, to them that are not saved by the gospel. Much of the unpleasantness of religion to us flows from our acting under the influence of the covenant of works.

Remember none are compelled to come in, none are called, but the vile and unworthy. Should your disease keep you from the physician? Dare ye not come to the fountain to wash, because ye are unclean? For whom is the fountain opened, but for unclean sinners?

We must give them the charming invitations and offers of the gospel upon the one hand, and lay before them the “terror of the Lord,” on the other hand, that if men will go to hell, they may go with a witness.

The world is no idle spectator of those who have given themselves to Christ, and profess to follow him. They take notice of them, and have their questions about them.

A true Christian is indeed a bundle of mysteries; he on earth, and his head in heaven, yet really and truly united; crucified with Christ, yet living; living, yet not he, but Christ living in him; not loitering, but laboring, yet not he, but “the grace of God with him.”

If God be your Father, be setting homeward to his house. If Christ be your espoused husband, make away with him through the wilderness, and stay not behind. The friendship of the, world is enmity with God.

“Had we a clearer view of the other world, we would not make so much of either the smiles or the frowns of this one.” Thomas Boston @Fourfold_State #thecrookinthelot

There is a conscience within worldly men, as well as corruption; and what their corruptions will condemn, their conscience will approve as lovely.

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.

Legal preachers are of all men Christ’s greatest enemies. —Thomas Boston, Scattered & Kept, Pg. 437

Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.

One lust unmortified, and secretly spared, will be the death of a thousand good motions and inclinations.

God begins his work, where Satan ends his; who having got the soul asleep in the arms of its lusts, shuts the windows, and draws the curtains, that it may sleep sound, till it awaken in bell. But the Spirit of the Lord by conviction opens them, and awakens the sinner.

The stormy wind, and earthquake, may go before in the law; but the still small voice of the gospel is that which the Lord is in.