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 firft published from the Manuscripts 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, e

IN THREE VOLUMES.

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

EDINBURGH:

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MDCCLXXIII.

CONTENTS.

OF

F the fifth commandment, continued

The duties of husbands and wives

The duties of children to parents

The duty of parents to children

The duty of fervants to mafters

The duty of mafters to fervants

The duty of people to minifters

The duty of minifters to people

The duty of ruling elders and people

The duty of magiftrates and fubjects

The duties of other relations

The fins forbidden

Of the reafon annexed to this command.

Of the fixth commandment

The duties required

The fins forbidden

Of the feventh commandment

The duties required

The fins forbidden

Of the eighth commandment.

The duties required

The fins forbidden

Of the ninth commandment

The duties required

The fins forbidden

Of the tenth commandment

The duties required

The fins forbidden

f man's inability to keep the law perfectly

An explanation of Gen. vi. 9. in the notes

of fin in its aggravations

Of the defert of fin

Of the means of falvation in general

Of faith in Jefus Chrift

An explanation of Gen. xv. 6. in the notes

Of repentance unto life

Of Chrift's ordinances in general

How the word is made effectual to falvation

How the word is to be read and heard

The duty of attending on ordinances

A caveat against receiving the gospel in vain