THE POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF THE LATE REVEREND AND LEARNED THOMAS BOSTON, MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL AT ETTRICK ;-AUTHOR OF THE NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM HIS MANUSCRIPTS, IN CONSISTING OF SIXTY-SIX SERMONS ON IMPORTANT AND With a RECOMMENDATORY PREFACE by the Clergymen who By it, he being dead, yet speaketh. Heb. xi. 4. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. Edinburgh: PRINTED FOR W. CREECH, J. FAIRBAIRN, OGLE & AIKMAN, MUNDELL & SON, AND C. DICKSON, By J. Pillans & Sons. 1802. CONTENTS. SER. XLV. The folly of turning afide from 1 Sam. xii. 21.-" And turn ye not afide; for then fhould ye go after vain things, which cannot. profit nor deliver, for they are vain." XLVI. Jefus completely qualified for his Ifa. lxi. I.- "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon XLVII. The fame fubject continued, XLVIII. Jefus a preacher of good tidings to 2 Tim. ii. 19.-" And let every one that nameth LIX. The fame fubject continued, LX. The inward frame fhould correfpond with the outward profeffion, Deut. v. 29.-" O that there were fuch an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever." Pag. 203 220 236 252 278 LXI. The fame fubject continued, LXII. The fame fubject continued, LXIII. A rich feaft prepared for hungry fouls, Ifa. xxv. 6." And in this mountain shall the Lord of hofts make unto all people a feaft of fat things, a feaft of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined." LXIV. The diftinguishing privilege of God's faithful fervants, Exod. xxiv. 11" And upon the nobles of the children of Ifrael he laid not his hand; alfo they faw God, and did eat and drink." 294 311 330 348 LXV. Gospel privileges wonders of grace, 370 Same text as Sermon LXIV. LXVI. God not ashamed to be called his people's God, Heb. xi. 16.-" Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city." 383 |