Thomas Boston

Thomas Boston

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Biography

Thomas Boston was a Scottish Presbyterian church leader, theologian and philosopher. Boston was successively schoolmaster at Glencairn, and minister of Simprin in Berwickshire, and Ettrick in Selkirkshire.

Books by Thomas Boston
The Whole Works of the Late Reverend Thomas Boston, of EttrickThe Whole Works of the Late Reverend Thomas Boston, of Ettrick
The Whole Works of the Late Reverend Thomas Boston, of EttrickThe Whole Works of the Late Reverend Thomas Boston, of Ettrick
The Whole Works of the Late Reverend Thomas Boston ... Now First Collected, and Reprinted Without Abridgment; Including His Memoirs, Written by Himself. Edited by the Rev. Samuel McMillanThe Whole Works of the Late Reverend Thomas Boston ... Now First Collected, and Reprinted Without Abridgment; Including His Memoirs, Written by Himself. Edited by the Rev. Samuel McMillan
Memoirs of Thomas BostonMemoirs of Thomas Boston
Select Works of Thomas BostonSelect Works of Thomas Boston
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Quotes by Thomas Boston

"As fish in the water love deep places and wells and are most frequently found there, so wicked men have a great love to carnal security and have no will to strive against the stream. Fish love deep places best where there is least noise. Oh, how careful are natural men to keep all quiet, that there may be nothing to disturb them in their rest in sin! They love to be secure which is their destruction. O my soul, beware of carnal security, of being secure, though plunged over head and ears in sin."

Thomas Boston

"So do men oftentimes find their greatest cross where they expected their greatest comfort."

Thomas Boston

"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."

Thomas Boston

"Go where thou wilt, thou canst not go out of thy Father's ground."

Thomas Boston