Required reading
A view of the covenant of grace by Thomas Boston (Available from Amazon or free here) - Continue the Third Head by reading up to the paragraph beginning, 'The second part of the covenant, namely, the promissory part.'
My summary
Now Boston makes some inferences from the conditionary part of the covenant.
He teaches us that:
(i) the redemption of the soul is precious;
(ii) the law is no loser, in that life and salvation are bestowed on believers in Christ;
(iii) faith hath a broad and firm bottom to stand on before the Lord;
(iv) all who are in Christ, the head of the covenant of grace, and so brought into it personally, are inherently righteous, or holy.
The fourth point is where Boston spends most of his time today.
What grabbed me
I liked Boston's comment on the value of lost souls: 'Ye who value not your own souls. See here the worth of those souls ye sell for a thing of nought, for satisfying a corrupt passion, a pang of lust of one sort or another. Costly was the gathering of what ye thus throw away. Ye let them go at a very low price; but Christ could not have one of them at the hand of justice, but at the price of his precious blood. Ye cannot forego the vanities of a present world for them, nor spend a serious day or hour about them; but he, after a life-time of sorrows underwent a most bitter death for them. What think ye? Was he inconsiderate and too liberal in his making such a bargain for the redemption of souls? He was infinitely just, who proposed the condition; and he was infinitely wise, who went in to it. He was a Father that exacted this ransom for souls; and he was his own Son that paid. Be ashamed and blush, to make so low an estimate of those souls, which Heaven set such a high price on.'
Souls are not worth selling for sin!
Next week's reading
Continue the Third Head by reading up to the heading 'Period I'.
Now it's your turn
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