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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.
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, Mark iv. 26, 27.
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 renowed; 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 bgins, 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,