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See also:BOSTON, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1676-1732) , Scottish divine, was See also:born at See also:Duns on the 17th of See also:March 1676. His See also:father, See also:John Boston, and his See also:mother, See also:Alison Trotter, were both See also:Covenanters. He was educated at See also:Edinburgh, and licensed in 1697 by the See also:presbytery of Chirnside. In 1699 he became See also:minister of the small See also:parish of Simprin, where there were in all " not more than 90 examinable persons." In 1704 he found, while visiting a member of his See also:flock, a See also:book which had been brought into See also:Scotland by a See also:common-See also:wealth soldier. This was the famous Marrow of See also:Modern Divinity, by See also:Edward See also:Fisher, a compendium of the opinions of leading See also:Reformation divines on the See also:doctrine of See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace and the offer of the See also:Gospel. Its See also:object was to demonstrate the unconditional freeness of the Gospel. It cleared away such conditions as repentance, or some degree of outward or inward reformation, and argued that where See also:Christ is heartily received, full repentance and a new See also:life follow. On Boston's recommendation, Hog of Carnock reprinted The Marrow in 1718; and Boston also published an edition with notes of his own. The book, being attacked from the standpoint of high Calvinism, became the See also:standard of a far-reaching See also:movement in Scottish See also:Presbyterianism. The " Marrow men " were marked by the zeal of their service and the effect of their See also:preaching. As they remained Calvinists they could not preach a universal See also:atonement; they were in fact extreme particular redemptionists. In 1707 Boston was translated to See also:Ettrick.
He distinguished himself by being the only member of the See also:assembly who entered a protest against what he deemed the inadequate See also:sentence passed on John See also:Simson, See also:professor of divinity at See also:Glasgow, who was accused of heterodox teaching on the Incarnation. He died on the 20th of May 1732. His books, The Fourfold See also:State, The Crook in the See also:Lot, and his See also:Body of Divinity and Miscellanies, See also:long exercised a powerful See also:influence over the Scottish peasantry.
His See also:Memoirs were published in 1776 (ed. G. D. See also:Low, 1908). An edition of his See also:works in 12 volumes appeared in 1849. (D.
End of Article: BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)
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