A

VIEW

OF

THIS AND THE OTHER WORLD;

WITH THE

STATE OF SAINTS AND SINNERS IN BOTH,

CONTRASTED.

PARTICULARLY DESCRIBING THE

SOLEMN ENTRANCE WHICH THE SOUL MAKES

INTO

THE OTHER WORLD AT DEATH.

IN SEVERAL PRACTICAL DISCOURSES.

BY THE LATE Rev. THOMAS BOSTON,
AUTHOR OF THE FOURFOLD STATE, ৬০.

A NEW EDITION.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY THOMAS TURNBULL,

FOR WILLIAM COKE, BOOKSELLER, LEITH.

1799.

:

I. THE state and characters of believers, as they

are of God, with their knowledge thereof, il-

lustrated; and a description 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, passage into, and state of men, in

the world to come.

MARK X. 30.

He shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time,

bouses, and brethren, and sisters, 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 raising a good name, the best balance for

the present, for the vanity and mifery of hu-

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

ter than his birth-day.

ECCL. vii. Ι.

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 diftinguish-

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 shadows fleeing

away; and their great concern for Christ's

presence till that happy season come.

SONG ii. 17.

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away;

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

young hart 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 also; for the Son of man

cometh at an hour when ye think not.

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THE

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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