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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
State 3 › Part 1 › The Resemblance […].State 3 › Part 1 › The Resemblance 〈…〉.
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.
The Resemblance […].
The Resemblance 〈…〉.
II. I come to […] generation, a being born again. It is so […] of the resemblance betwixt natural and spiritual generation, which he in the following particulars.
II. I come to 〈…〉 generation, a being born again. It is so 〈…〉 of the resemblance betwixt natural and spiritual generation, which he in the following pa••iculars.
First, Natural generation […] ••ysterie is thing: and so is spiritual generation. John iii. 8. The •ind b••w•th where is listeth, and thou hearest the sound […], but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. The work of the Spirit is felt, but his way of working is a mystery we cannot comprehend. A new light is let into the mind, and the will is renewed; but how that light is conveyed thither, how the will is fettered with cords of love, and how the rebel is made a willing captive, we can no more tell, than we can tell, how the bones do grow in […] of her that is with child, Eccles. xi 5. As a man hears the sound of the wind, and finds it stirring; but knows not where i begins, and where it ends; so is every one that is born of the spirits […] finds the change that is made upon him, but how it is produced, […] not. One thing he may know, that whereas he was blind, now he seeth: but the seed of grace doth spring and grow up, he knoweth not how,