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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.
HEAD III. The RESURRECTION, discoursed from John v. 28, 29. THE possibility of the resurrection, p. 250 The certainty of the resurrection, p. 250 Who shall be raised, p. 251 What shall be raised, p. 255 How the dead shall be raised, p. 255 The difference betwixt the godly and the wicked, in their resurrection, p. 256 The qualities of the raised bodies of the saints, p. 257 The qualities of the raised bodies of the wicked, p. 260 Comfort to the people of God, p. 263 Terror to all natural men, p. 264
HEAD IV. The GENERAL JUDGMENT discoursed from Mat. xxv. 31, 32, 33, 34, 41, 46. p. 365 THAT there shall be a general judgment, proven, p. 267 Jesus Christ the Judge, p. 268 The coming of the Judge, p. 270 The summons given, p. 270 The Judge's sitting down in the tribunal, p. 272 The compearance of the parties, p. 272 The separation betwixt the righteous and the wicked, p. 274 The trial of the parties, p. 275 The books opened, p. 276 Sentence pronounced on the saints, p. 278 The saints judge the world, p. 280 Sentence of damnation on the ungodly, p. 281 The execution, p. 283 The general conflagration, p. 283 The place and time of the judgment, unknown, p. 286 Comfort to the saints, p. 286 Terror to unbelievers, p. 287 Exhortation to prepare for the judgment, p. 288
HEAD V. The KINGDOM of HEAVEN, discoursed from Mat. xx. 34. p. 291 THE nature of the kingdom of heaven, p. 292 The saints kingly power and authority, p. 293 Their ensigns of royalty, p. 294 White garments, on what occasion used: much of heaven under them, p. 294 The country where this kingdom lies, p. 295 The Royal city, p. 299 The Royal palace, p. 299 The palace garden, p. 300 The Royal treasures, p. 301 The temple in this kingdom, p. 301 The society there, p. 302 The society of the saints among themselves, p. 302 Society with the holy angels, p. 303 Glorious communion with God and Christ, the perfection of happiness, p. 304 The glorious presence of God and the Lamb, p. 305 The full enjoyment of God and the Lamb, p. 306 By sight, p. 306 They will see Christ, with their bodily eyes, p. 30 They will see God with the eyes of the mind, p. 310 By experimental knowledge, p. 312 Fullness of joy unspeakable, p. 313 The eternal duration of this kingdom, p. 313 The saints admission to the kingdom, p. 314 The quality in which they are introduced, p. 316 Trial of the claim to the kingdom of heaven, p. 318 Duty and comfort of the heirs of the kingdom, p. 319 Exhortation to these who have no right to it, p. 319