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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 4 › DOCTRINE. There shall be a general Judgment.
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.
how much more shall men's wicked words, their sinful oaths, curses, lies, filthy communications, and bitter words be called over again, that day? The tongues of many shall then fall upon themselves, and ruin them. Thirdly, Men's thoughts shall be brought into judgment: the Judge "will make manifest the counsel of the hearts," 1 Cor. iv. 5. Thoughts go free from man's judgment, but not from the judgment of the heart-searching God, who knows men's thoughts, without the help of signs to discern them by. The secret springs of men's actions will then be brought to light; and the sins, that never came further than the heart, will then be laid open. O what a figure will man's corrupt nature make, when his […] is turned out, and all his speculative ⟨p. 278⟩impurities are exposed! the rottenness that is within many a whited sepulchre, the speculative filthiness and wantonness, murder and malignity, now lurking in the hearts of men, as in the chamber of imagery, will then be discovered; and what good was in the hearts of any, shall no more lie concealed. If it was in their hearts to build a house to the Lord, they shall hear, that they did well that it was in their heart.
how much more shall men's wicked words, their sinful oaths, curses, lies, filthy communications, and bitter words be called over again, that day? The tongues of many shall then fall upon themselves, and ruin them. Thirdly, Men's thoughts shall be brought into judgment: the Judge "will make manifest the counsel of the hearts," 1 Cor. iv. 5. Thoughts go free from man's judgment, but not from the judgment of the heart-searching God, who knows men's thoughts, without the help of signs to discern them by. The secret springs of men's actions will then be brought to light; and the sins, that never came further than the heart, will then be laid open. O what a figure will man's corrupt nature make, when his 〈…〉 is turned out, and all his speculative ⟨p. 278⟩impurities are exposed! the rottenness that is within many a whited sepulchre, the speculative filthiness and wantonness, murder and malignity, now lurking in the hearts of men, as in the chamber of imagery, will then be discovered; and what good was in the hearts of any, shall no more lie concealed. If it was in their hearts to build a house to the Lord, they shall hear, that they did well that it was in their heart.