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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.
First, In regeneration the mind is savingly enlightened. There is a new light let into the understanding, so that they who were sometimes darkness, are now light in the Lord, Eph. v 8. The beams of the light of life make their way into the dark dungeon of the heart: then night is over, and the morning-light is come, which will shine more and more unto the perfect day. Now the man is illuminated,
First, In regeneration the mind is savingly enlightned. There is a new light let into the understanding, so that they who were sometimes darkness, are now light in the Lord, Eph. v 8. The beams of the light of life make their way into the dark dungeon of the heart: then night is over, and the morning-light is come, which will shine more and more unto the perfect day. Now the man is illuminated,
1. In the knowledge of God. He has far other thoughts of God, than ever he had before, Hos. ii. 20. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness, and thou shalt know the Lord. The Spirit of the Lord brings him back to that question, What is God? And catechiseth him anew upon that grand point, so as he is made to say, I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eyes seeth thee, Job xlii. 5. The spotless purity of God, his exact justice, his all-sufficiency, and other glorious perfections revealed in his word, are, by this new light, discovered to the soul, with a plainness and certainty that doth as far exceed the knowledge it had of these things before, as ocular demonstration exceeds common fame. For now he sees what he only heard of before.
1. In the knowledge of God. He has far other thoughts of God, than ever he had before, Hos. ii. 20. I will even betrothe thee unto me in faithfulness, and thou shalt know the Lord. The Spirit of the Lord brings him back to that question, What is God? And catechiseth him anew upon that grand point, so as he is made to say, I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eyes seeth thee,