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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 4 › Part 2 › Doctrine 2: DOCTRINE II. The State of the Godly in Death, is a hopeful State.
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.
Thirdly, Employ yourselves much in weaning your hearts from the world. The man who is making ready to go abroad, busies himself in taking leave of his friends. Let the mantle of earthly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped, when death comes to carry you away into another world. Moderate your affections towards your lawful comforts of life: and let not your hearts be too much taken with them. The traveller acts unwisely, who suffers himself to be so allured with the conveniences of the inn where he lodgeth, as to make his necessary departure from it grievous. Feed with fear, and walk through' the world as pilgrims and strangers. Likeas, when the corn is forsaking the ground, it is ready for the sickle: when the fruit is ripe, it falls off the tree easily: so, when a Christian's heart is truly weaned from the world, he is prepared for death, and it will be the more ⟨p. 248⟩easy to him. A heart disengaged from the world is an heavenly one: and then are we ready for heaven, when our heart is there before us, Matth. vi. 21.
Thirdly, Employ yourselves much in weaning your hearts from the world. The man who is making ready to go abroad, busies himself in taking leave of his friends. Let the mantle of earthly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropt, when death comes to carry you away into another world. Moderate your affections towards your lawful comforts of life: and let not your hearts be too much taken with them. The traveller acts unwisely, who suffers himself to be so allured with the conveniencies of the inn where he lodgeth, as to make his necessary departure from it grievous. Feed with fear, and walk thro' the world as pilgrims and strangers. Likeas, when the corn is forsaking the ground, it is ready for the sickle: when the fruit is ripe, it falls off the tree easily: so, when a Christian's heart is truly weaned from the world, he is prepared for death, and it will be the more ⟨p. 248⟩easy to him. A heart disengaged from the world is an heavenly one: and then are we ready for heaven, when our heart is there before us, Matth. vi. 21.