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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 3: III. THE STATE of GRACE, or Begun R•••ver•.
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.
III. THE STATE of GRACE, or Begun R•••ver•.
HEAD I. REGENERATION Discoursed from 1 PET. i 23. p. 129 OF the nature of regeneration. p. 1•0 Partial changes mistaken for this change, p. 1•• The change made in regeneration, what it is, p. 1•• In general p. 1•• In particular, p. 1•• The mind illuminated, p. ••• The will renewed, p. ••• Cured of its utter in ability, […] good, p. ••• Endued with a fixed […] to […] p. 1•• — a be•t and propensity […]. p. 1•• ⟨p. xii⟩Reconciled to the covenant of peace, p. 138 Disposed to receive Jesus Christ, p. 138 The affections are changed, p. 140 —Rectified, p. 141 —Regulated, p. 142 The conscience renewed, p. 142 The memory bettered by regenerating grace, p. 143 The body changed in respect of use, p. 145 The whole conversation changed, p. 148 The resemblance betwixt natural and spiritual generation, in nine particulars, p. 151 Trial of one's state, whether born again, or not, p. 151 Some cases of doubting Christians resolved, p. 151 Case (1.) — The precise time and way of one's conversion not known, p. 152 Case (2) — Sin prevailing, — p. ib. Case (3.) — Corruptions more violent than formerly, p. 154 Case (4.) — Affections to the creature stronger than to the Creator. — Glowing affections to God gone, — p. 155 Case (5.) Attainments of hypocrites and apostates, a terror, p. 155 Case (6) — Falling short of the saints mentioned in scripture, and of others — p. 157 Case (7.) — No child of God so tempted, — p. 157 Case last.—Strange and unusual afflictions,— p. 157 The necessity of regeneration, p. 159 To qualify one to do good, p. 160 To communion with God in duties, p. 161 To make one meet for heaven, p. 161 To one's being admitted into heaven, p. 161 Advices to the unregenerate, p. 162