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Thomas Boston was a gifted preacher, a master of the biblical languages, an astute theologian, and an enormously influential Presbyterian minister. Jonathan Edwards called him “a truly great divine,” and Joel Beeke writes that “Boston’s sermons are models of sound exegesis combined with experiential piety and admonition.” Boston’s theologically rich and deeply pastoral writings make him essential...

DISCOURSES ON PRAYER OF THE NATURE OF PRAYER IN GENERAL; WITH THE IMPORT OF PRAYING WITHOUT CEASING* 1 THESS. 5:17 Pray without ceasing. THESE words are an exhortation briefly delivered, as laws use to be; and therein we have, 1. A duty proposed, “Pray.” 2. The manner of it, “without ceasing.” I. We have the duty itself, “Pray.” It may be asked, What is prayer? I answer, It is “an offering up of our desires to God, for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins,
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