A N

ILLUSTRATION

OF THE

DOCTRINES of the CHRISTIAN RELIGION,

WITH RESPECT TO

FAITH AND PRACTICE,

UPON THE PLAN OF

The ASSEMBLY'S SHORTER CATECHISM.

COMPREHENDING

A Complete Body of Divinity.

Now firft published from the Manufcripts of

The late Reverend and Learned

MR THOMAS BOSTON,

Minister of the Gofpel at ETTRICK,

Author of the Fourfold State, A View of the Covenants, &c.

Hold fast the form of found words. 2 TIM. i. 13.

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