Showing posts with label Thomas Boston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Boston. Show all posts

Sunday, May 29, 2011

When the people of God reach heaven

When the people of God reach heaven, they will see Jesus Christ, God and man, with their bodily eyes, as He will never lay aside the human nature. They will behold that glorious blessed body, which is personally united to the divine nature, and exalted above principalities and powers and every name that is named. There we shall see, with our eyes, that very body which was born of Mary at Bethlehem, and crucified at Jerusalem between two thieves: the blessed head that was crowned with thorns; the face that was spit upon; the hands and feet that were nailed to the cross; all shining with inconceivable glory. 
      ~Thomas Boston

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Consider the end of God's decrees

Consider the end of God's decrees - and this is no other than His own glory. Every rational agent acts for an end; and God being the most perfect agent, and His glory the highest end, there can be no doubt but all His decrees are directed to that end. "For to Him are all things" (Rom. 11.36).
~ Thomas Boston 
Source: Of the Decrees of God, Commentary on the Shorter Catechism.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Scum of the heart

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. ~ Thomas Boston

Faith is...

Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants. ~ Thomas Boston

Christ suffered

Christ suffered all that wrath which was due to the elect for their sins. ~ Thomas Boston