Art of Manfishing by Thomas Boston (Available from Amazon or free on the internet, here for example) - Commence Part 2 by reading Chapter 1 (What following Christ supposes and implies).
Today we begin the second part of the book which examines how you may come by the art of manfishing.
In the chapter we read today we are told to follow Christ and that this supposes and implies manfishers have:
(i) life;
(ii) knowledge of the way that Christ took;
(iii) a sense of weakness and the need of a guide;
(iv) renounced their own wisdom;
(v) not made men their rule, but follow men no farther than they follow Christ.
When looking at what it means to have life as a manfisher, Boston spoke about how we should treat our bodies: 'Therefore I do not spare this weak body, and therefore have I desired never to be idle, but to go unsent for sometimes. Yet my conscience tells me of much slackness in this point, when I have been in private with people and have not reproved them as I ought when they offended, being much plagued with want of freedom in private converse. This I have in the Lord's strength resolved against, and have somewhat now amended it.'
I agree. It is so easy to be idle when we should be active - particularly when it comes to points in conversations where we should speak up and not be silent.
Do not spare your weak bodies!
Continue Part 2 by commencing Chapter 2 (Wherein is Christ to be followed?) by reading the first four points..
Now it's your turn
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