HUMAN NATURE, IN ITS FOURFOLD STATE: OF PRIMITIVE INTEGRITY; ENTIRE DEPRAVITY; BY THE REV. T. BOSTON. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY, AND SOLD AT THe depository, 56, PATERNOSTER ROW; CONTENTS., The doctrine of the state of innocence applied PART I.-The Sinfulness of Man's Natural State...... How man's nature became corrupted Doctrine of the corruption of nature applied God's specially noticing our natural corruption Why original sin is to be specially noticed How to get a view of the corruption of our nature PART II.-The Misery of Man's Natural State Mau's natural state is a state of wrath Doctrine of the state of wrath confirmed and vindicated Advices how to flee from wrath Duty of those who are delivered from wrath PART III.-Man's utter Inability to recover himself Objection to Man's inability to recover himself answered Semblance between natural and spiritual generation The doctrine of regeneration applied Of the nature of the resurrection Qualities of the raised bodies of the saints Qualities of the raised bodies of the wicked PART IV.-Of the General Judgment Exhortation to prepare for judgment The saints made completely happy Trial of the claim to the kingdom Duty and comfort of the heirs thereof Exhortation to those who have no right to the kingdom The eternity of the miserable state of the damned' A measuring reed 461 A balance of the sanctuary MAN'S FOUR-FOLD STATE. STATE I. THE STATE OF INNOCENCE. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.---ECCLES. vii. 29. THERE are four things very necessary to be known by all that would see heaven: 1. What man was in the state of innocence, as God made him. 2. What he is in the state of corrupt nature, as he hath unmade himself. 3. What he must be in the state of grace as created in Christ Jesus unto good works, if ever he be made a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light. 4. What he will be in his eternal state, as made by the Judge of all, either perfectly happy, or completely miserable, and that for ever. These are weighty points, that touch the vitals of practical godliness; from which most men, and even many professors, in these dregs of time, are quite estranged. I design, therefore, under the divine conduct, to open these things, and apply them. I begin with the first of them, namely, the State of Innocence: that beholding man polished after the similitude of a palace, the ruins may the more affect us; we may |