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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
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.
MATTH. xxv. 34. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
HAVING from this portion of scripture, which the text is a part of, discoursed of the general judgment; and being to speak of the everlasting happiness of •he saints, and the everlasting misery of the wicked, from the respective sentences •o be pronounced upon them, in the great day; I shall take them in the order wherein they lie before us; the rather that, a sentence is first past upon the righteous, so the execution thereof i• first begun, though possibly the other may be fully executed before it be completed.
HAVING from this portion of scripture, which the text is a part of, discoursed of the general judgment; and being to speak of the everlasting happiness of •he saints, and the everlasting misery of the wicked, from the respective sentences •o be pronounced upon them, in the great day; I shall take them in the order wherein they ly before us; the rather that, a sentence is first past upon the righteous, so the execution thereof i• first begun, though possibly the other may be fully executed before it be compleated.
The words of the text contain the joyful sentence itself, together with an historical introduction thereto, which gives us an account of the Judge pronouncing the sentence; the King, Jesus Christ; the parties on whom it is given, them on his right hand: and the time when, then, as soon as the trial is over. Of thee I have spoken already. It is the sentence itself we are now to consider. Come ye blessed of my Father, &c. Stand a-back, O ye proane goas; have away all unregenerate souls, not united to Jesus Christ: this is not for you. Come, O ye saints, brought out of your natural state, into the state of grace; behold here the state of glory awang you. Here is glory let down to us in words and syllables; a looking-glass, in which you may see your everlasting happiness; a scheme (or draught) of Christ's Father's house, wherein there are many mansions.