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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.
Thus far of the society in this kingdom of the saints.
X. In the last place, The kingdom shall endure for ever. As every thing in it is eternal, so the saints shall have an undoubted certainty and full assurance of the eternal duration of the same. This is a necessary ingredient in perfect happiness: for the least uncertainty, as to the continuance of any good with one, is not without some fear, anxiety and torment; and therefore is utterly inconsistent with perfect happiness. But the glorified shall never have fear, nor cause of fear, of any loss: they shall be ever with the Lord, 1 Thess. iv. 17. They shall all attain the full persuasion, that nothing shall be able to separate them from the love of God; nor from the full enjoyment of him, for ever. The inheritance reserved in heaven is incorruptible; it hath no principle of corruption in itself, to make it liable to decay, but endures for evermore: It is undefiled: nothing from without can mar•its beauty, nor is there any thing in itself to offend those who enjoy it: And therefore it fadeth not away; but ever remains in its native lustre, and primitive beauty, 1 Pet. i. 4. Hitherto of the nature of the kingdom of heaven.
X. In the last place, The kingdom shall endure for ever. As every thing in it is eternal, so the saints shall have an undoubted certainty and full assurance of the eternal duration of the same. This is a necessary ingredient in perfect happiness: for the least uncertainty, as to the continuance of any good with one, is not without some fear, anxiety and torment; and therefore is utterly inconsistent with perfect happiness. But the glorified shall never have fear, nor cause of fear, of any loss: they shall be ever with the Lord, 1 Thess. iv. 17. They shall all attain the full perswasion, that nothing shall be able to separate them from the love of God; nor from the full enjoyment of him, for ever. The inheritance reserved in heaven is incorruptible; it hath no principle of corruption in itself, to make it liable to decay, but endures for evermore: It is undefiled: nothing from without can marits beauty, nor is there any thing in itself to offend those who enjoy it: And therefore it fadeth not away; but ever remains in its native lustre, and primitive beauty,