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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
Contents › Part 2: II. The State of NATURE, or State of ENTIRE DEPRAVATION.
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.
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 ⟨p. x⟩Five evidences of it, p. 64 Enmity against God, p. ib. Against the being and nature of God, p. 65 Five queries, for conviction on this head, p. 67 Against the Son of God, p. ib. In his prophetical office, p. 68 Two evidences of it, p. 69 In his priestly office, p. 70 Three evidences of it, p. ib. In his kingly office, p. 71 Three evidences of it, p. 72 A peculiar malignity against the priestly office; corrupt nature lying cross to the gospel-contrivance of salvation, p. 73 Four proofs of it, p. ib. Bent to the way of the law, as a covenant of works, p. 75 Four proofs of it, p. 76 Against the Spirit of God, p. ib. Against the law as a rule of life, p. 77 Two evidences of it, p. 77 Contumacy against the Lord, p. 78 Perverseness in reference to the chief end, p. 78 Of the corruption of the affections, p. 79 —of the conscience, p. 79 —of the memory, p. 80 The body partaker of this corruption, p. 81 How man's nature was corrupted, p. ib. The doctrine of the corruption of nature applied, p. 82 The natural man can do nothing but sin, p. 84 God takes special notice of the sin of our nature, p. 87 Evidences of men's overlooking the sin of our nature, p. 88 […] in that sin is to be specially noticed, p. 89 Why it is to be specially noticed, p. 90 How to get a view of the corruption of nature, p. 93