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This piece emphasizes the absolute necessity of spiritual regeneration for any work to be acceptable to God, arguing that without the new birth, even outwardly commendable actions remain defective and spiritually dead. It contrasts the external appearance of piety with the internal reality of an unregenerate heart, asserting that true faith is a vital act of the newborn soul rather than a product of natural effort. The text warns that unregenerate prayers and struggles against sin are abominations to the Lord, likening them to the howling of a dog or the stench of a rotten grave. The preacher urges listeners to examine their lives through the Word of God, recognizing their misery and the sinfulness of their state, to prepare the heart for the gospel. Ultimately, the message calls for a deep reliance on the Holy Spirit and the preached Word to bring about the conversion that makes one a new creature in Christ.

Today's Sunday School examines the theological nuances of the Fall as described in Chapter 6 of the Confession of Faith, focusing on the distinct roles of Satan, humanity, and God. It argues that Adam's transgression was a willful act committed without compulsion or excuse, rooted in a prior internal violation of the law of nature rather than merely the external breach of a positive command. By drawing on historical theologians like Nehemiah Cox and Thomas Boston, the teaching illustrates that the act of eating the fruit completed a rebellion that had already begun in the heart, thereby breaking the entire law of God at once. Pastor Jason further clarifies that God's permission of the Fall was not a passive or bare allowance, but a sovereign decree exercised according to His wise counsel and purpose to bring about His own glory.

This session explores the theological distinction between the law of works, the law of faith, and the law of Christ through the lens of the Marrow Controversy and Matthew 5. Pastor Jason utilizes historical context from Edward Fisher and Thomas Boston to clarify how these three categories function in biblical interpretation and pastoral application. By examining Jesus' antitheses in the Sermon on the Mount, the teaching demonstrates how the law exposes sin and drives believers to Christ for justification. The discussion emphasizes that while the moral law remains a rule of life for believers, it is fulfilled through faith in Christ's perfect obedience. Ultimately, the goal is to equip pastors to preach both judgment and grace accurately, ensuring the gospel offer remains free and universal.

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How unwilling are men to be hedged in! How averse to restraint! The world can bear witness, that they are "as bullocks unaccustomed to the yoke:" and more, that it is far easier to bring young bullocks tamely to bear the yoke, than to bring young children under discipline, and make them tamely submit to be restrained in sinful liberty.

To vindicate God's severity, in that he not only cut off sinners—but defaced the beauty of the earth, and swept off the brute creatures from it, by the deluge; that as men had set the marks of their impiety, God might set the marks of his indignation, on the earth. (2.) To show the heinousness of their sin, in making the earth, which God had so adorned for the use of man--a sink of sin, and a stage whereon to act their wickedness, in defiance of Heaven.

Spring Clearning, came across a letter sent to my mom on January 16th 1986, forty years ago. Where I was then, what I have reflected on now. And other interesting news and updates. Also a historical sketch of the influence of the book, Human Nature in its Fourfold State, by Thomas Boston and how just reading it in a group of awakened Virginia farmers was a means to the end of the Hanover County Revival.

We had the opportunity to step inside Thomas Boston's church in Ettrick on our Foundations Tour April 2026. The group sang some Psalms and Donald Macdonald, owner of Macdonald Hotels, made some remarks about Boston.