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THIS AND THE OTHER WORLD;

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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, &'c.

A NEW EDITION.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY THOMAS TURNBULL,

FOR WILLIAM COKE, BOOKSELLER, LEITH.

1799.

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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 bowels and 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 morning.

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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