!

AN

ILLUSTRATION

OF THE

DOCTRINES of the CHRISTIAN RELIGION,

WITH RESPECT TO

FAITH AND PRACTICE,

UPON THE PLAN OF

The ASSEMBLY'S SHORTER CATECHISM.

COMPREHENDING

A Complete Body of Divinity.

:

Now first published from the Manuscripts of
The late Reverend and Learned

MR THOMAS BOSTON,
Minister of the Gospel at ETTRICK,

Author of the Fourfold State, A View of the Covenants, &c.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOLUME II,

Hold fast the form of found words. 2 TIM. i. 13.

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MDCCLXXIII,

Of Sanctification

Union with Christ the only way to fanctification

Of the benefits flowing from justification, adoption,

and fanctification

281

296

307

320

Of affurance

32 T

Of peace ace of confcience

326

Of joy in the Holy Ghost

331

Of increase of grace

337

Of perfeverance in grace

343

Of the benefits which believers receive at death

349

Of benefits at the resurrection

355

Of the duty which God requireth of man

368

The moral law the rule of man's obedience

379

The moral law fummarily comprehended in the ten

commandments

388

Love to God and our neighbour the sum of the ten