called a ready wit, (which, instead of cultivating, he laid under a severe restraint,) of tender affections, a clear and solid judgment… There were few pieces of learning that he had not some good taste for… He had an admirable talent at drawing a paper, which made a statesman, a very able judge, say, (when Mr. Boston was clerk of the Synod of Merse and Teviotdale,) that he was the best clerk he had ever know in any court, civil or ecclesiatic… as a minister, he had on his spirit a deep and high sense of divine things, was mighty in the Scripture… His knowledge and insight in the mystery of Christ was great, though a humbling sense of the want of it was like to have quite sunk and laid him by, after he began to preach. He had a peculiar talent for going deep into the mysteries of the gospel, and at the same time making them plain, particularly in making intelligible their connection with, and influence upon, gospel-holiness; notable instances of which may be seen in his most valuable treatise, “Of the Covenant of Grace,” and in his sermons on Christ in the form of a servant… No wonder his ministrations in holy things were all of them dear and precious to the saints. He was fixed and established upon solid and rational grounds in the Reformation principle, in opposition to Popery, Prelacy, superstition, and persecution… Far from serving the Lord with that which cost him nothing, it was his delight to spend and be spent in the service of the gospel… zeal and knowledge were in him united to a degree rarely to be met with… He was exceedingly cautious and scrupulous of any thing new or unprecedented, until he was thoroughly satisfied of its necessity and grounds… He was a scribe singularly instructed into the kingdom of God, happy in