Human Nature in its Fourfold State

Thomas Boston

I. The State of INNOCENCE

II. The State of NATURE
1. The SINFULNESS of man’s natural state
2. The MISERY of man’s natural state
3. The INABILITY of man’s natural state

III. The State of GRACE
1. Regeneration
2. Mystical Union

IV. The ETERNAL State
1. Death
2. Difference between the righteous and the wicked in their death
3. Resurrection
4. Judgment
5. Heaven
6. Hell