Thomas Boston

Thomas Boston served as the minister of Ettrick in the Scottish Borders, a rural and demanding parish, for most of his working life. He came to national prominence through his discovery and promotion of Edward Fisher’s The Marrow of Modern Divinity (1645), which sparked the Marrow Controversy of the 1720s and brought him into protracted conflict with the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Human Nature in Its Fourfold State (1720) and The Crook in the Lot are his most enduring works, the latter a searching pastoral treatment of affliction as a means of grace in the life of the believer.