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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 4: IV. The ETERNAL STATE, or State of consummate Happiness or Misery.
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.
IV. The ETERNAL STATE, or State of consummate Happiness or Misery.
HEAD I. Death, discoursed from Job xxx. 23. p. 214 THE certainty of death, p. 215 Man's life vanity, p. 217 A short-lived vanity, p. 217 A flying vanity, p. 219 The doctrine of death, a looking-glass, wherein to behold the vanity of the world, p. 220 A store-house, for contentment and patience, p. 222 A bridle to curb lusts conversant about the body, p. 224 A spring of Christian resolution, p. 225 A spur to incite to prepare for death, p. 226
HEAD II. The Difference betwixt the Righteous and the Wicked in their Death, discoursed from Prov. xiv. 32. p. 127 THE wicked dying are driven away, p. 228 In what cases a wicked man may be willing to die, p. 229 Whence they are driven, and whither, p. 230 Driven away in their wickedness, p. 231 The hopelessness of their state at death, p. 231 Their hopes of peace and pleasure in this life cut off, p. 231 They have no solid grounds to hope for eternal happiness, p. 232 Death roots up their delusive hopes of heaven, p. 232 Make their state absolutely and for ever hopeless, p. ••• Caution against false hopes of heaven: characters of those Hopes, p. 233 Exhortation to hasten out of a sinful state, p. 234 To be concerned for the salvation of others, p. 235 ⟨p. xiv⟩The state of the godly in death, a hopeful state, p. 236 Christ their best friend is Lord of the other world, p. 236 They will have a safe passage to it, p. 237 A joyful entrance into it, p. 239 Object.—Many of the godly, when dying, full of fears, and have little hope. Answered, p. 241 Death uncomfortable to them, in three cases, p. 242 Ten cases of saints anent death. Answered, p. 245 Considerations to bring saints in good terms with death, p. 246 Directions how to prepare for death, p. 247