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Memoirs Of Thomas Boston
Memoirs of Thomas Boston records the joys and sorrows, the burdens and victories of Thomas Boston’s life. Here we read of his love for Catherine Brown and of their marriage, of death in the family circle, of the dark cloud of his wife’s affliction, and of Boston’s own ceaseless gospel labours. Out of these labours, and his deep Christian experience, Thomas Boston gave the church one of its most enduring spiritual autobiographies. Born into relative obscurity in 1676 in Duns, Berwickshire, Thomas Boston died in 1732 in the small parish of Ettrick in the Scottish Borders. But his 56 years of life, 45 of them spent in conscious Christian discipleship, lend credibility to the spiritual principle that it is not where a Christian serves, but what quality of service he renders, that really counts.
Publication
- Publisher
- The Banner of Truth Trust
- Date published
- Mar 1, 1988
- Print status
- In print
The Physical Book
- Binding
- Cloth-bound
- Dust jacket
- Yes
- Total pages
- 576 pages
- ISBN-13
- 9780851515281
Reference
- Publisher page
- View at publisher
Contents
- The author’s address to his children
- MEMOIRS
- 1676-1689
- From his birth till he left the grammar school
- 1689-1694
- From his leaving the grammar school to his Laureation
- 1694-1697
- From his Laureation to his being licensed to preach the gospel
- 1697-1698
- From his being licensed till he removed into the bounds of the presbytery of Stirling
- 1698-1699
- From his removal into the bounds of the presbytery of Stirling to his return unto the Merse
- 1699
- From his return unto the Merse to his ordination to the holy Ministry at Simprin, 21st September 1699
- 1699-1700
- From his ordination to his marriage, 17th July 1700
- 1700-1707
- From his marriage to his removal to Ettrick
- 1707-1712
- From his removal to Ettrick to the oath of abjuration refused by him
- 1712-1717
- From the oath of abjuration refused till his transportation to Closeburn refused by the commission of the general Assembly.
- 1717-1724
- From the transportation to Closeburn refused to the notable breach in his health, and alteration in his constitution
- 1724-1731
- From the notable breach in his health to the time of closing this account, November 1731, six months before his death
- Postscript
- APPENDIX
- 1) Note on page 244, concerning the situation of the parish of Ettrick
- 2) Note on page 297, advice to the parish, with respect to their duty as loyal subjects in the rebellion, 1715
- 3) Note on page 338, overtures of admission to the Lord’s table, and debarring from it
- 4) Mr. Gabriel Wilson’s speech before the synod of Merse and Teviotdale in defence of his sermon before that synod, October 1721
- 5) Note on page 391, paragraph of a letter from the author to the minister of e__ r
- 6) Letters from the Rev, Mr, Henry Davidson, late minister of the gospel at Galashiels, to the author
- 7) Extract of a letter from Mr, Grant to the author, concerning Sir Richard Ellys
- 8) letters from the author to his correspondent in Edinburgh
- 9) Letter from the author to the Rev, Mr, James Hog, minister of the gospel at Carnock
- 10) Letter from an eminent dissenting minister in Essex to the author’s grandson, concerning the author’s appearance before the general assembly of the Church of Scotland, 1729, in professor Simson’s process
- 11) Note on the bicentenary services held at Simprin, 24th September 1899
- Index,