The Crook in the Lot
Thomas Boston · 1737
Comfort for the things in life that won't come straight, from a pastor who had buried several of his own children.
- Lived
- 1676–1732
- Where
- Ettrick, Scotland
- In the library
- 1 book
Author
Thomas Boston
Minister of Ettrick in the Scottish Borders.
Thomas Boston was born at Duns in Berwickshire and studied at Edinburgh. After a few years at Simprin, a very small parish, he was minister of Ettrick from 1707 until his death.
His wife Katherine was ill for much of their marriage, and six of their ten children died young. His best-known book, Human Nature in its Fourfold State, went through many editions in Scotland, and he was one of the ministers who defended The Marrow of Modern Divinity in the controversy over it in the Church of Scotland.
The Crook in the Lot, a set of sermons on bearing the hard things God sends, was published after his death.