Thomas Boston — The Crook in the Lot, Part 1

First, Regeneration is absolutely necessary to qualify you to do any thing really good and acceptable to God. While you are not born again, your best works are but glittering sins; for though the matter of them is good,…

Thus the person united to Christ is justified. You may conceive the whole proceeding herein, in this manner. The avenger of blood pursuing the criminal, Christ, as the Saviour of lost sinners, does by the Spirit apprehen…

Happiness is the result of holiness: and as it was a holy, so it was a happy state.

And herein believers have the advantage of Adam, that they can never totally or finally fall away from grace.

There is never a crook which God makes in our lot, but it is in effect Heaven's offer of a blessed exchange to us; such as, 'Sell whatever you have, and you shall have treasure in heaven.' In managing of which exchange,…

They seek God indeed, yet not for himself, but for themselves. They seek him not at all, but for their own welfare: so their whole life is woven into one web of practical blasphemy; making God the means, and self their e…