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Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses
Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses. / By Mr. Thomas Boston, late Minister of the Gospel at Etterick.
United States : s.n. Printed for the booksellers., M,DCC,LXXXVII. 1787
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I. The State of INNOCENCE, or PRIMITIVE INTEGRITY, discoursed from Eccles. vii. 29.
OF man's original righteousness, Page 19 His understanding a lamp of light, Page ib. His will straight with the will of God, Page 20 His affections orderly and pure, Page 21 The qualities of this righteousness, Page 22 Of man's original happiness, Page 23 Man a glorious creature, Page ib. The favourite of heaven, Page ib. The covenant of works, Page ib. Lord of the world, Page 26 The forbidden true: stay to keep him from falling, Page ib. His perfect tranquility, Page 27 Life of pure delight, Page ib. Man immortal, Page 28 Instructions from this state, Page ib. Three sorts of persons reproved, Page 29 A lamentation over the ruins, Page 30
II. The State of NATURE, or State of ENTIRE DEPRAVATION.
HEAD I. The SINFULNESS of Man's natural State, discoursed from GENESIS vi. 5. Page 35 THAT man's nature is corrupted, proven, Page 35 From God's word, Page ib. From men's experience, and observation, Page ib. Fallen Adam's image, in eleven particulars natural to men, Page 45 Of the corruption of the understanding, Page 46 Weakness with respect to spiritual things, Page 47 Three evidences of it, Page 48 Cross darkness in spiritual things, Page 50 Four evidences of it, Page 51 A bias in it to evil, Page 53 Six evidences of that bias, Page 54 Aversion to spiritual truths, Page 55 Three evidences thereof, Page 56 Proneness to lies and falsehood, Page 57 Man naturally high-minded, Page 58 Of the corruption of the will, Page ib. Utter inability for what is truly good, Page 59 Two evidences of it, Page 60 Averseness to good, Page 61 Four evidences of it, Page 62 Proneness to evil, Page 64