BOSTON, Thomas, a popular and learned Scottish divine, born at Dunse, May 17. 1676. He was educated at Edinburgh, and in 1699 became minister of the parish of Simprin, from which he was translated in 1707 to Ettrick. He died May 20. 1732. His writings were numerous; but he is best known by his Fourfold State, the Crook in the Lot, and his Body of Divinity, a work much esteemed by Presbyterians. His treatise on Hebrew accents is a learned production; and, besides many other works, he also left Memoirs of his own Life and Times, published in 1776.