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THIS AND THE OTHER WORLD;

WITH THE

STATE OF SAINTS AND SINNERS IN BOTH,.
CONTRASTED.

PARTICULARLY DESCRIBING THE

SOLEMN ENTRANCE WHICH THE SOUL MAKES

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THE OTHER WORLD AT DEATH.

IN SEVERAL PRACTICAL DISCOURSES.

BY THE LATE REV. THOMAS BOSTON,
AUTHOR OF THE FOURFOLD STATE, &'c.

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A NEW EDITION.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY THOMAS TURnbull,
FOR WILLIAM COKE, BOOKSELLER, LEITH.

1799.

THE

CONTENTS.

I. THE ftate and characters of believers, as they

are of God, with their knowledge thereof, il-

luftrated; and a defcription of the unrege-

nerate world lying in wickedness.

I JOHN V. 19.

And we know that we are of God, and the whole

world lieth in wickedness.

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II. The divine call to finners, to come out from

among the world lying in wickedness, explain

ed and urged.

I JOHN V. 19.

The whole world lieth in wickedness.

2 COR. vi. 17.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye.

Separate, faith the Lord, and touch not the un-

clean thing; and I will receive you.

III. The believer's hundred-fold in this life con-

fidered; and a view of the reality, parts, in-

habitants, paffage into, and state of men, in

the world to come.

MARK X. 30.

He fball receive an bundred-fold now in this time,

boufes, and brethren, and fifters, and mothers,

and children, and lands, with perfecutions;

and in the world to come, eternal life.

IV. The great care and concern now, that our

fouls be not gathered with finners in the other

world, confidered and improved.

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PSALM

PSALM XXVI. 9.

Gather not my foul with finners.

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V. The improvement of life in this world to

the raifing a good name, the best balance for

the prefent, for the vanity and misery of hu-

man life; and the good man's dying-day bet-

ter than his birth-day.

ECCL. vii. I.

A good name is better than precious ointment; and

the day of death, than the day of one's birth. 231

VI. Christ's special order for gathering his faints

to him at the last day; with their distinguish-

ing character, as entering into his covenant

now, confidered.

PSALM 1. 5.

Gather my faints together unto me; those that have

made a covenant with me by facrifice.'

VII. The faints lifetime in this world a night-

time; their expectation of the day's breaking

in the other world, and the fhadows fleeing

away; and their great concern for Chrift's

prefence till that happy feafon come.

SONG ii. 17.

Until the day break, and the fhadows flee away;

turn my Beloved, and be thou like a roe, or a

young bart upon the mountains of Bether.

VIII. Readiness for our removal into the other

world opened up, urged and enforced.

LUKE xii. 40.

Be ye therefore ready alfo; for the Son of man

cometh at an hour when ye think not.

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THEY ARE OF GOD, WITH THEIR KNOWLEDGE

THEREOF, ILLUSTRATED;

AND

A DESCRIPTION OF THE UNREGENERATE WORLD LYING IN WICKEDNESS.

Several Sermons preached at Etterick, in the end of the year 1728, and beginning of 1729.

I JOHN V. 19.

And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

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S it was faid to Rebekah, Gen. xxv. 23. Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people fhall be feparated from thy bowelsand the elder shall ferve the younger; fo it may be faid of this text. Two manner of people are here, to one of which all of us do belong, viz. Thofe that are of God, and thofe that are of the world. The latter is the elder, and shall ferve the younger, Pfal. xlix. 14. The upright fhall have dominion over them in the

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1. There is a people, that though they are in the world, are not of it, but feparated from it: And we know that we are of God. Here confider, (1.) The original of that people: They are of God; that is, begotten and born of God, regenerate perfons, born again. They are a heavenly people in respect of their extract, born from above, 2 Pet. i. 4. (2.) Who they are in particular. We are they, we believers in Chrift.

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