Posts Tagged ‘puritans’
Book Review: The Art of Manfishing
Thursday, March 6th, 2008The Art of Manfishing
by Thomas Boston.
Christian Heritage. 104 pages.
ISBN 1857921062
Also available from Monergism Books, and online for free.
After finishing Dever’s The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, I decided to follow it up with a jump back in time to 1699, to Thomas Boston’s The Art of Manfishing, also on evangelism.
Unlike Dever’s book, which deals with evangelism [...]
Random Thoughts - 2/21/07
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Some good stuff in the blogosphere lately…
Dan Phillips answers, What if someone claims an angelic visitation [today]?
David Kotter at CBMW responds to Luke Timothy Johnson on homosexuality and the church
Paul Lamey tackles the tough subject of applying Old Testament law (and principles) today
John Piper posts an amazing poem from his son, Karsten (do yourself a [...]
Thomas Boston, Puritan, on Evangelism
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008I finished up Dever’s The Gospel and Personal Evangelism last night. (Review coming soon… Probably. ;-)) I’m following it up with Thomas Boston’s The Art of Manfishing, a short book from a Scottish Puritan on evangelism, from around 1700. Here’s a crumb (emphasis added):
O my soul, then see that gifts will not do the business. [...]
Quotes from The Godly Man’s Picture
Monday, February 4th, 2008Our Puritan Book Club is currently working through Thomas Watson’s The Godly Man’s Picture. And so, I present to you some choice quotes from my reading thus far… (Boldface is mine in the quotes below.)
The soul being so precious, and salvation so glorious, it is the highest point of prudence to make preparations for another [...]
