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.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOLUME II,

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

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY JOHN REID.

Sold by W. DARLING, Bridge-ftreet, and the faid J. REID, the
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SON, Berwick.

MDCCLXXIII.

CONTENTS.

OF Chrift's priestly office

Of Chrift's kingly office

Of Chrift'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

The divine call to leave the devil's family explained

and urged

The preface to the ten commandments

Of the first commandment

The duties required

The fins forbidden

Of the words, before me

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Of fanctification

Union with Chrift the only way to fanctification

Of the benefits flowing from juftification, adoption,

and fanctification

Of affurance

Of peace of confcience

Of joy in the Holy Ghoft

Of increase of grace

Of perfeverance in grace

Of the benefits which believers receive at death

Of benefits at the refurrection

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368

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

379

388

Love to God and our neighbour the fum of the ten

commandments

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Of