Sixty-Six Sermons: On Important and Interesting Subjects (eBook)

by Thomas Boston

in ePub, .mobi & .pdf formats

These sermons are from Volumes 9 & 10 of the Works of Thomas Boston.

Boston has "… a dazzling mastery of the text and teaching of the Bible; a profound knowledge of the human heart; great thoroughness and clarity in exposition; great skill in applicatory searching of the conscience; and a pervasive sense of the wonder and glory of God’s grace in Christ to such perverse sinners as ourselves." J. I. Packer

For the expositor of God’s Word, this volume of sermons sermons make this set a priceless gem. Boston is a Scotish Puritan who is exegetically faithful and sensitive of the human heart. His depth and breadth make him one of the very few writers that will help you prepare any sermon on any text for any audience.

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Thomas Boston was born in Duns, Berwickshire, the youngest of seven children. His parents sent Boston from age nine to thirteen to the grammar school in Duns, where he loved reading the Bible and began studying Latin and New Testament Greek.

John Boston, Thomas’s father, was a cooper by trade and a strict Presbyterian. He was imprisoned for a time for refusing to conform to the changes in worship and government that the Stuart kings imposed on the Church of Scotland. One of Thomas’s earliest memories was visiting his father in prison. After the Act of Toleration in 1687 permitted non-conforming Presbyterians to hold services in private houses, John Boston began traveling with his family to Whitsome to hear the preaching of Henry Erskine, the father of Ebenezer and Ralph Erskine. Thomas Boston was spiritually awakened at age eleven while listening to Erskine’s messages on John 1:29 and Matthew 3:7.

Erskine’s ministry continued to influence the Boston family. Regardless of the weather, Thomas Boston would walk four or five miles each Sabbath to obtain food for his soul. He later wrote, “In the winter sometimes it was my lot to go alone, without so much as a horse to carry me through Blackadder water, the wading whereof in sharp frosty weather I very well remember. But such things were then easy, for the benefit of the Word, which came with power” (Memoirs, p. 10).

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Table of Contents 

SERMON I: INFALLIBLE ANTIDOTES AGAINST UNBELIEVING FEARS - REV. 1:17, 18 

SERMON II: SIN THAT WHICH SEPARATES GOD AND MEN - ISA. 59:2 

SERMON III: THE FOLLY OF RESISTING, THE WISDOM OF COMPLYING WITH THE GOSPEL-CALL - MATTH. 21:29. 

SERMON IV: THE NATURE AND EFFECTS OF A WEANED DISPOSITION OF SOUL - PSALM 131:2 

SERMON V: THE DANGER OF NOT WAITING ON GOD AFTER THE DUE ORDER - 1 COR. 15:13 

SERMON VI: THE PERFECTION OF PROVIDENTIAL DISPENSATIONS - PSALM 18:30. 

SERMON VII: FEAR AND HOPE OBJECTS OF THE DIVINE COMPLACENCY - PSALM 147:11 

SERMON VIII: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON IX: JESUS VICTORIOUS OVER DEATH - ISA. 25:8 

SERMON X: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON XI: THE SUITABLE IMPROVEMENT OF SAINTS' FORMER EXPERIENCES - 2 KINGS 1:14 

SERMON XII: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON XIII: CHRIST, THE FATHER'S GIFT TO HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE - ISA. 55:4 

SERMON XIV: THE CHRISTIAN WEAK, YET STRONG - 2 COR. 12:10 

SERMON XV: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON XVI: THE INTERESTING INQUIRY - MATTH. 20:6 

SERMON XVII: CHRIST'S PRESENCE WITH GOSPEL MINISTERS - MATTH. 28:20 

SERMON XVIII: CHRIST'S INVITATION TO THE LABOURING AND HEAVY-LADEN - MATTH. 11:28 

SERMON XIX: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON XX: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON XXI: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON XXII: CHRIST A REFRESHFUL SHADOW IN A WEARY LAND - ISA. 32:2 

SERMON XXIII: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON XXIV: THE EVIL AND DANGER OF HALTING BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS - 1 KINGS 16:21 

SERMON XXV: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON XXVI: CREATION'S GROANS CONSIDERED AND IMPROVED - ROM. 8:22 

SERMON XXVII: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON XXVIII: CREATION'S TRAVAIL AND DELIVERY - ROM. 8:22 

SERMON XXIX: FAITHFULNESS TOWARDS GOD EXEMPLIFIED AND REWARDED - NUM. 14:24 

SERMON XXX: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON XXXI: THE CHRISTIAN DESCRIBED, THE HYPOCRITE DETECTED - ROM. 2:28, 29 

SERMON XXXII: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON XXXIII: THE STATUTE-LAW OF DISCIPLESHIP - LUKE 14:26 

SERMON XXXIV: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON XXXV: A RICH REWARD TO DILIGENCE IN RELIGION - HOS. 6:3 

SERMON XXXVI: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON XXXVII: THE ACCEPTABLE MANNER OF DRAWING NEAR TO GOD - HEB. 10:22 

SERMON XXXVIII: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON XXXIX: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON XL: THE SAINTS GOD'S SERVANTS, AND HIS PROPERTY - ACTS 27:23 

SERMON XLI: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON XLII: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON XLIII: GOD'S GRACIOUS CALL AND PRECIOUS PROMISE CONSIDERED - PSALM 81:10 

SERMON XLIV: THE NATURE AND SOURCE OF SPIRITUAL LIFE - JOHN 6:57 

SERMON XLV: THE FOLLY OF TURNING ASIDE FROM THE LORD - 1 SAM. 12:21 

SERMON XLVI: JESUS COMPLETELY QUALIFIED FOR HIS WORK - ISA. 61:1 

SERMON XLVII: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON XLVIII: JESUS A PREACHER OF GOOD TIDINGS TO THE MEEK - ISA. 41:1 

SERMON XLIX: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON L: JESUS BINDS UP THE BROKEN-HEARTED - ISA. 61:1 

SERMON LI: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON LII: JESUS PROCLAIMS LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES - ISA. 61:1 

SERMON LIII: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON LIV: JESUS OPENS THE PRISON DOORS TO THE PRISONERS - ISA. 61:1 

SERMON LV: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 

SERMON LVI: DEPARTING FROM INIQUITY THE DUTY OF ALL WHO NAME THE NAME OF JESUS - 2 TIM. 2:19 

SERMON LVII: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED

SERMON LVIII: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED

SERMON LVIX: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED

SERMON LX: THE INWARD FRAME SHOULD CORRESPOND WITH THE OUTWARD PROFESSION - DEUT. 5:29

SERMON LXI. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED

SERMON LXII: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED

SERMON LXIII: A RICH FEAST PREPARED FOR HUNGRY SOULS - ISA. 25:6

SERMON LXIV: THE DISTINGUISHING PRIVILEGE OF GOD'S FAITHFUL SERVANTS - EXOD. 24:11.

SERMON LXV: GOSPEL PRIVILEGES WONDERS OF GRACE - EXOD. 24:11

SERMON LXVI: GOD NOT ASHAMED TO BE CALLED HIS PEOPLE'S GOD - HEB. 11:16

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