Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

In speaking to this doctrine, (1) I shall show how, and in what sense, the wicked are driven away in their wickedness, at death. (2.) I shall discover the hopelessness of their state at death. And lastly, Apply the whole.

In speaking to this doctrine, (1) I shall shew how, and in what sense, the wicked are driven away in their wickedness, at death. (2.) I shall discover the hopelesness of their state at death. And lastly, Apply the whole.

I. How, and in what sense the wicked are driven away in their wickedness. In discoursing of this matter, I shall briefly inquire, (1.) What is meant by their being driven away. (2.) Whence they shall be driven, and whither. (3) In what respects they may be said, to be driven away in their wickedness. But, before I proceed let me advertise you; that you are mistaken if you think, that no persons are to called wicked, but they who are avowedly vicious and profane; as if the devil could dwell in none but those whose name is legion. In scripture account, all who are not righteous, in the manner hereafter explained, are reckoned wicked And therefore the text divides the whole world into two sorts, the righteous, ⟨p. 228⟩and the wicked; and ye will see the same thing in that other text, Mal. iii. 18. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked Wherefore, if ye be not righteous, ye are wicked. If ye have not an imputed righteousness, and an implanted righteousness, or holiness; if ye be yet in your natural state unregenerated, not united to Christ by faith: howsoever moral, and blameless in the eyes of men, your conversation may be; ye are the wicked, who shall be driven away in their wickedness, if death find you in that state. Now,

I. How, and in what sense the wicked are driven away in their wickedness. In discoursing of this matter, I shall briefly inquire, (1.) What is meant by their being driven away. (2.) Whence they shall be driven, and whither. (3) In what respects they may be said, to be driven away in their wickedness. But, before I proceed let me advertise you; that you are mistaken if you think, that no persons are to called wicked, but they who are avowedly vitious and prophane; as if the devil could dwell in none but those whose name is legion. In scripture account, all who are not righteous, in the manner hereafter explained, are reckoned wicked And therefore the text divides the whole world into two sorts, the righteous,