Thomas Boston Quotes
Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts.
Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it.
Saving faith is the faith of God's elect; the special gift of God to them, wrought in them by his Spirit.
No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but only Christ's fulfilling all righteousness.
Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.
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.
The gospel casts out a rope to hale sinners to land; but the sinner has no hands to lay hold on it; his very faith must be wrought in him by the Spirit.
There is no true believing or trusting to the report of the gospel, but what is the effect of the working of a divine power on the soul for that end.
Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.
For the turning away of the simple, shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.
God will not pity them, but “laugh at their calamity.” The blessed company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's righteous judgment, and sing while the smoke riseth up for ever.
