Thomas Boston of Ettrick : His Life And Times
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IO9 like a pentecostal effusion in which his whole parish, with its thousands, received a new life and impulse, and every individual was devoutly conscious of a bap- tism of fire, yet interest in divine things was deepen- ing, the circle was widening, and there were convic- tion and anxious inquiry in many hearts. Men who had not observed the Lord's Supper for twenty years came seeking to handle and taste the sacred symbols of Christ's redeeming love, and those who had long been deserters of Ch...ristian ordinances in every form hastened to renew the times when it was better with them than now. Writing of the fifth of the annual communions, Mr. Boston records, in his own homely style of narrative, that "there were 150 communi- cants who sat down at the sacred feast. At this time there were ten tables, though we used to have about seven, and the tables were longer than ordinary, and people came from a far distance." The gratification which the true-hearted pastor derived from these signs of reviving life in his parish was disturbed by the action of Queen Anne's Parlia- ment in framing an oath termed the " Oath of Ab- juration," which was required to be taken by every minister of the church, on pain of his incurring a heavy and almost ruinous pecuniary penalty in the event of his refusal, and in case of his persistence in this refusal, his being compelled to vacate his pas- IIO THOMAS BOSTON.
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IO9 like a pentecostal effusion in which his whole parish, with its thousands, received a new life and impulse, and every individual was devoutly conscious of a bap- tism of fire, yet interest in divine things was deepen- ing, the circle was widening, and there were convic- tion and anxious inquiry in many hearts. Men who had not observed the Lord's Supper for twenty years came seeking to handle and taste the sacred symbols of Christ's redeeming love, and those who had long been deserters of Ch...ristian ordinances in every form hastened to renew the times when it was better with them than now. Writing of the fifth of the annual communions, Mr. Boston records, in his own homely style of narrative, that "there were 150 communi- cants who sat down at the sacred feast. At this time there were ten tables, though we used to have about seven, and the tables were longer than ordinary, and people came from a far distance." The gratification which the true-hearted pastor derived from these signs of reviving life in his parish was disturbed by the action of Queen Anne's Parlia- ment in framing an oath termed the " Oath of Ab- juration," which was required to be taken by every minister of the church, on pain of his incurring a heavy and almost ruinous pecuniary penalty in the event of his refusal, and in case of his persistence in this refusal, his being compelled to vacate his pas- IIO THOMAS BOSTON.
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