The Crook in the Lot

Name: The Crook in the Lot
Author: Thomas Boston

Thomas Boston (1676–1732) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian, serving first at Simprin and then for twenty-five years at Ettrick. A defender of the free offer of the gospel in the Marrow Controversy, he wrote from his pastoral work among rural parishioners. His Human Nature in Its Fourfold State became a Scottish classic; The Crook in the Lot and his posthumous Memoirs are also in our library.

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First published: 1737
Category: Holiness
Length: 45k words · about 3 hours
Chapters: 10
Narration: 🎧 Volunteer Readers

About this book

Thomas Boston's meditation on the crook in the lot — the trials God appoints in each life — published after his death in 1737. From Ecclesiastes 7:13, Boston considers God's sovereignty in suffering and the believer's duty under it: humility, patience, and submission without murmuring. A Puritan classic of comfort for afflicted Christians, by the author of Human Nature in Its Fourfold State.