Thomas Boston
Published: 2015-06-24
Total Pages: 114
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Excerpt from A Soliloquy on the Art of Man-Fishing Hard by the public road leading between Duns and Coldstream, at a sudden bend in its windings, and about four miles from the River Tweed, there is a ruin which marks an ancient place of worship. Along that same road leading from Duns, in the autumn of 1699, there came one Saturday a young man whose heart was palpitating with much anxiety as to the outcome of tomorrows sermon and service. He was Mr. Thomas Boston, A.M., probationer of the Church of Scotland, and he was to preach for the parish of Simprin. He discharged the work, returned by the same road to Duns, and anxiously awaited the result. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.