GEORGE AND ROBERT KING, ST. NICHOLAS STREET.

M.DCCC.L.

HUMAN NATURE

IN ITS

FOURFOLD STATE,

OF

PRIMITIVE INTEGRITY; ENTIRE DEPRAVITY;
BEGUN RECOVERY;

AND CONSUMMATE HAPPINESS OR MISERY:

AND

A VIEW OF THE COVENANT OF GRACE

FROM THE SACRED RECORDS.

BY THE

REV. THOMAS BOSTON,

OF ETTRICK.

ABERDEEN:

GEORGE AND ROBERT KING, ST. NICHOLAS STREET.

04-8-36

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CONTENTS OF VOL. VIII.

MAN'S FOURFOLD STATE.

STATE I.-THE STATE OF INNOCENCE.

ECCLES. vii. 29.-Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man up-

right; but they have sought out many inventions,

II. THE STATE OF NATURE.

PART 1.-THE SINFULNESS OF MAN'S NATURAL STATE.

GEN. vi. 5.God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and

that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,

PART 2.-THE MISERY OF MAN'S NATURAL STate..

Eгн. ii. 3.-We were by nature the chidren of wrath, even as others,

PART 3.-MAN'S UTTER INABILITY TO RECOVER HIMSELF.

ROM. v. 6. For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died

for the ungodly.

JOHN V. 44.-No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me

draw him,

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III. THE STATE OF GRACE.

PART 1.-ON REGENERATION.

1 PET. i. 23.-Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,

by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever,

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PART 2.-MYSTICAL UNION BETWEEN CHRIST AND BELIEVERS.

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JOB XXX. 23. For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house

appointed for all living,

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PART 2.- DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED IN

THEIR DEATH.

PROV. xiv. 32.-The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righte-

ous hath hope in his death,

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