Sublime

Thomas Boston and his friends believed that “the gospel-doctrine” had been attacked in the Marrow Controversy.

Boston’s own record of his divinity studies,

whatever the crook in the lot is to the eye of faith, it is not all pleasant to the eye of sense.

In chapter four, we will look briefly at two lives that embody Edwards’s conception of true Christianity.

Boston held that these words stress what was being obscured in a moribund confessional “orthodoxy,” in which evangelistic rigor mortis had already set.

believing, belonging, and behaving

the second distinct shape of Henry’s new mold of being pastor. If Edwards operated at the speed of learning and discipline, Henry downshifted completely, casting the pastor as no different—living at no different speed—from any other man or woman.

In this chapter, we turn from Edwards’s core conversion-ist beliefs to look at two personal examples of true Christianity as he conceived it.

of Christian discipleship.