A N

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 Manufcripts of

The late Reverend and Learned

MR THOMAS BOSTON,

Minister of the Gofpel at ETTRICK,
Author of the Fourfold State, A View of the Covenants, &c.

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

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY JOHN REID.

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SON, Berwick.

MDCCLXXIII.

CONTENTS.

OF Chrifl's priefly office

Of Chrift's kingly office

Of Christ's humiliation

Of Christ's exaltation

Of the application of redemption

Of union with Chrift

Of effectual calling

Of the benefits of effectual calling

Of juftification

Of adoption

and urged

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The divine call to leave the devil's family explained

Of fanctification

Union with Chrift the only way to fanctification

Of the benefits flowing from juftification, adoption,

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and fanctification

Of affurance

Of peace of confcience

Of joy in the Holy Ghost

Of increase of grace

Of perfeverance in

grace

Of benefits at the refurrection

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Of the benefits which believers receive at death

Of the duty which God requireth of man

The moral law the rule of man's obedience

The moral law fummarily comprehended in the ten

-commandments

Love to God and our neighbour the fum of the ten

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