011!`edV.I! ®_1111'S,ay OF TMII LIFE, TIME, AND WRITINGS, OF Mr THOMAS BOSTON. rPHAT my life may be more fullyknown unto my pofterity, 1 for their humiliation on the one hand, and thankfulnefs on the other, upon myaccount ; for theircaution alto in fore things, and their imitation in others ; and that they may fet their hope in God, and not in the empty creation, I have thought it meet to give the following, general account of the days of my vanity, in the feveral periods thereof. PERIOD From my birth, till I left the grammarfchool. T. WAS born of honeft parents, of 'good reputation among their neighbours, in the town of Dunfe, on the 17th, and baptized on the 21ít, of March, in the year 1676 ; being the youngeft of fever children, four brothers and three fitters, procreated betwixt John Bofton, and Alifòn Trotter, awoman prudent andvirtuous. I was born at a time when my mother was thought tohave left bearing ; for which caufe a certain woman ufed ordinarily to call me God'sfend. The youngeft of my filters I faw not: but the reft lived, and had all of them feveral children ; many of whom have now children of their own. Meanwhile my brothers and lifters are all of them gone, feveral years ago, into the other world, which I have now in view. Andrew Bofton, my grandfather, came from Ayr to Dunfe, and poifeífed the tenement given afterward by my father to my eldeft brother, and belonging to his heirs to this day. But before him had come William, his brother, as I fuppofe ; whofe name . the tenement next on the weft fide, to that which my father gave me, bears. When I was a boy, I faw a grand-daughter of his from England, by his fon Mr William, a churchman there; a No. 1. A
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