Marrow Men Unite

From anti-evangelic aphorisms; A legal spirit may be justly nam’d The fertile womb of ev’ry error damn’d. Hence Pop’ry, so nat’ral since the fall, Makes legal…

God’s Consistent Love For His Children

“The author speaks expressly of the love of God, touching believers’ justification, and eternal salvation, which, according to the Scripture, he reckons to be given them…

Marrow Controversy (1718-23)

Taken from J.V. Fesko’s book titled Justification: Understanding the Classic Reformed Doctrine, 32-34 One of the famous eighteenth-century debates that surrounded the doctrine of justification was…

Taken from The Marrow of Modern Divinity – Edward Fisher with the notes of Thomas Boston

neophytus – a  Young Christian evangelista – a Minister of the Gospel —- neophytus: Indeed sir, if I were holy and so righteous as some men…

No ways by the good works which he works in us

Taken from Marrow of Modern Divinity, Edward Fisher with the notes of Thomas Boston. Thomas Boston’s notes: “So we are perfectly saved by the works which…

Law and Gospel Distinction

Taken from the Publisher’s Introduction (Joel R. Beeke) of Treatise on the Law and the Gospel by John Colquhoun (1748-1827) “The law shows the sinner that his…

Boston’s Notes: Payment of A Double Debt & Christ and the Covenant of Works

From Thomas Boston’s notes on Edward Fisher’s The Marrow of Modern Divinity: “Payment of a Double Debt As man lay in ruins, by the fall guilty…