Thomas Boston (1676-1732) was educated at Edinburgh and licensed in 1697 by the presbytery of Chirnside. In 1704 he providentially discovered and read Marrow of Modern Divinity, by Edward Fisher. He became known as one of the Marrow Men. The Marrow Men were marked by the zeal of their service and the effect of their preaching. As they remained Calvinists they could not preach a universal atonement; rather they were particular redemptionists. His books include, The Fourfold State, The Crook in the Lot, and his Body of Divinity and Miscellanies.