The Crook in the Lot by Thomas Boston ~ Full Audiobook [religion]

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08/22/23

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The Crook in the Lot by Thomas Boston audiobook.

Genre: religion

In The Crook in the Lot, Scottish Presbyterian pastor Thomas Boston turns a single piercing question from Ecclesiastes 7:13 into a steady guide for anyone living with burdens they cannot simply fix: if God has made something crooked in your life, who can make it straight? Boston calls the unchosen trials of daily life the 'crook' and the overall shape of a person's circumstances the 'lot.' With the directness of a preacher and the tenderness of a counselor, he argues that afflictions are not random intrusions but belong to God's wise providence, and that peace begins when the sufferer learns to see the crook as the work of God rather than a mistake to be fought at all costs. Drawing from Scripture and lived pastoral experience, Boston explores why certain troubles strike the most sensitive places in our hearts, how impatience and pride harden the soul, and what it looks like to respond with humility, repentance, prayer, and persevering faith. The book reads like a series of sermons meant to steady trembling hands and reframe suffering as a severe mercy that can shape holiness.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:08:29) Chapter 02

(00:40:22) Chapter 03

(01:24:19) Chapter 04

(01:44:05) Chapter 05

(02:20:42) Chapter 06

(02:40:03) Chapter 07

(03:14:39) Chapter 08

(03:49:04) Chapter 09

(04:07:39) Chapter 10

(04:52:23) Chapter 11

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Elizabethan Demonology by Thomas Alfred Spalding ~ Full Audiobook [history]

August 22, 2023

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265m

Elizabethan Demonology by Thomas Alfred Spalding audiobook.

Genre: history

Written as a scholarly essay, Elizabethan Demonology investigates what educated and ordinary people in England believed about devils, witches, possession, and unseen spiritual forces during the Reformation and the decades that followed. Thomas Alfred Spalding argues that to read Elizabethan drama clearly, especially the plays of William Shakespeare, modern readers must recover the religious assumptions and folk ideas that shaped daily life and public imagination. Moving between theology, popular superstition, and literary evidence, Spalding traces how older pagan or foreign gods were reinterpreted as lesser spirits, how fear of diabolic agency found support in sermons and pamphlets, and how these convictions surfaced on the stage in vivid scenes of temptation, prophecy, and haunting. Along the way he pays particular attention to Shakespeare's handling of the supernatural, using close readings to show how an audience that took demons seriously would have heard certain words, symbols, and moral stakes differently than we do today. Expanded from papers first delivered to the New Shakespeare Society, this compact work is both a window into early modern belief and a guide for readers who want to understand why the devil felt so real in Elizabethan literature. citeturn0search1turn0search7turn0search0

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:19:09) Chapter 02

(00:42:53) Chapter 03

(01:01:28) Chapter 04

(01:26:45) Chapter 05

(01:53:36) Chapter 06

(02:18:31) Chapter 07

(02:44:28) Chapter 08

(02:59:38) Chapter 09

(03:25:28) Chapter 10

(03:48:14) Chapter 11

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Eleven years a drunkard by Thomas Doner ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

August 22, 2023

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93m

Eleven years a drunkard by Thomas Doner audiobook.

Genre: biography

He tells of the shame, misery and pain which alcohol brought on him, and will bring to anyone whosoever be tempted by the pleasant feeling it produces at the time of drinking. It doesn't bring one home to shelter but drives them away. It leads one to forget the evil it brings and tempts one to pursue more for the pleasant feeling it produces. This 'pleasant feeling' produces many murderers in our land. It doesn't push the sufferer to ask for help but to lie about the drinking. Once Satan has a foothold he wants an even tighter grasp.

He exhorts - you boys, to learn this lesson, 'If you do not take the first drink, you will not be tempted to take the second.' And if you take the first drink do not take the second or the monster will have done its work and will surely lead you to a third and a fourth and to associate with the inmates of taverns until you are committed to prison, executed in the gallows, a cripple (like Doner) or to a drunkard's grave.

Filth, drunkenness, crime and blasphemy, Doner writes, are the rewards for stepping in this Snare of the Devil.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 0

(00:01:02) Chapter 1

(00:08:46) Chapter 2

(00:43:36) Chapter 3

(01:07:13) Chapter 4

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