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Thomas Boston, born on March 17, 1676 and died on May 20, 1732, was a figure of unknown profession or category. His life was marked by【brief description of life experiences】and he made significant【description of achievements and contributions】. He has had a profound【description of impact and evaluation】.

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“The regenerate man's desires are rectified; they are set on God himself, and the things above... Before, he saw no beauty in Christ, for which he was to be desired; but now he is all he desires, he is altogether lovely... regenerating grace sets the affections so firmly on God, that the man is disposed, at God's command, to quit his hold of every thing else, in order to keep his hold of Christ... If the stream of our affections were never thus turned, we are, doubtless, going down the stream into the pit.”

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“In regeneration, the mind is enlightened in the knowledge of spiritual things... The will is renewed... The will is cured of its utter inability to will what is good. While the opening of the prison to them that are bound is proclaimed in the gospel , the Spirit of God comes to the prison-door; opens it; goes to the prisoner, and, by the power of his grace, makes his chains fall off; breaks the bond of iniquity, wherewith he was held in sin so as he could neither will nor do anything truly good; brings him forth into a large place.”

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“Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery.”

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“Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.”

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“Believing, repenting, and the like, are the product of the new nature; and can never be produced by the old corrupt nature... as the child cannot be active in his own generation, so a man cannot be active in his own regeneration. The heart is shut against Christ: man cannot open it, only God can do it by his grace.”

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Book:Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State, in Several Practical Discourses

Source: Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State, in Several Practical Discourses

“The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace.”

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Book:Human Nature in Its Four-fold State of Primitive Integrity: Subsisting in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise : Entire Depravation, in the Irregenerate; Begun Recovery in the Regenerate; Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in All Mankind in the Future State : in Several Practical Discourses

Source: Human Nature in Its Four-fold State of Primitive Integrity: Subsisting in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise : Entire Depravation, in the Irregenerate; Begun Recovery in the Regenerate; Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in All Mankind in the Future State : in Several Practical Discourses

“The believer is sensible of his infirmities, for it is supposed that he is wrestling under them. He sees, he feels, that he is not man enough for his work; that his own hands are not sufficient for him, nor his own back for his burden; this is what drives him out of himself to the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And thus he lies open to the help of the Spirit, while proud nature in unbelievers is left helpless.”

Source: Select Works of Thomas Boston: With a Memoir of His Life and Writings

“No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but only Christ's fulfilling all righteousness.”

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Book:A view of the covenant of grace from the sacred records: Wherein the parties in that covenant, the making of it; its parts ... and the administration thereof, are distinctly considered. Together with the trial of a saving personal in-being in it, and the way of instating sinners therein ...

Source: A view of the covenant of grace from the sacred records: Wherein the parties in that covenant, the making of it; its parts ... and the administration thereof, are distinctly considered. Together with the trial of a saving personal in-being in it, and the way of instating sinners therein ...