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The natural mans case stated, or, An exact map of the little world man…The naturall mans case stated, or, An exact map of the little world man…
The natural mans case stated, or, An exact map of the little world man considered in both his capacities, either in the state of nature or grace / as is laid down in XVII sermons by that late truly orthodox divine, Mr. Christopher Love ... ; whereunto is annexed The saints triumph over death, being his funeral sermon, by that painful labourer in the Lords vineyard, Mr. Tho. Manton ...The naturall mans case stated, or, An exact map of the little world man considered in both his capacities, either in the state of nature or grace / as is laid down in XVII sermons by that late truely orthodox divine, Mr. Christopher Love ... ; whereunto is annexed The saints triumph over death, being his funeral sermon, by that painful labourer in the Lords vineyard, Mr. Tho. Manton ...
London: printed by E. Cotes for George Eversden, 1652
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I Come now to the 3. Query which I promised to handle, which is this; to show the misery and sad condition of a man without an interest in Jesus Christ: and oh that I could speak it, & you hear it, with a bleeding heart, to see in what a dismal, and doleful, and deplorable condition every poor soul in the world without Christ is plunged into: I shall reduce all that I have to say, touching this particular, under these two heads, to show you 1. Positively, what he undergoes: and 2. Privatively, what he wants: I shall run over them briefly.
I Come now to the 3. Query which I promised to handle, which is this; to shew the misery and sad condition of a man without an interest in Jesus Christ: and oh that I could speak it, & you hear it, with a bleeding heart, to see in what a dismall, and doleful, and deplorable condition every poor soul in the world without Christ is plunged into: I shall reduce all that I have to say, touching this particular, under these two heads, to shew you 1. Positively, what he undergoes: and 2. Privatively, what he wants: I shall run over them briefly.
1. For the Positive part, the misery of a man out of Christ, lies in these three particulars: there are these three great evils, that every man out of Jesus Christ lies under.
1. A man out of Christ is surrounded and compassed about with misery, which way soever he turns himself, and to illustrate this the more fully, I shall hear lay you down 8. particulars, wherein a Christless man is compassed about with miseries on all sides; Thou art surrounded with misery, Oh Christless man, if thou lookest either outward, or inward; upward or downward; forward, or backward; on thy right hand, or on thy left; nothing but miseries accompany thee.