Posts Tagged ‘thomas boston’
Thomas Brooks on Jacob and Private Prayer
Saturday, April 12th, 2008Jacob did never enjoy so much the presence of God as when he had left the company of men. Oh! the sweet communion that Jacob had with God when he withdrew from his family, and was all alone with his God by the ford Jabbok! Certainly Jacob was never less alone than at this time, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]



