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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.
4. If you look downwards, there is death ready to receive you, which is but as a back-door to let you into hell, and if you look lower, there is nothing but a dungeon of darkness, where infernal spirits are reserved in chains of darkness, to the judgement of the great day. Which way soever a Christless man looks there are nothing but miseries accompany him; if he looks outward, there the creatures are against him; if he looks inward, there is a galled, and accusing conscience ready to accuse him; if he look above him, there is an angry God against him; if he look below him, there is the Devil ready to receive him: a Christless man is in a most sad and doleful condition, as I might exemplify by this familiar similitude; Suppose a man were falling into a great and dark dungeon, wherein there were nothing but Toads and Serpents, and all manner of venomous beasts, and as he were falling in, should catch hold of a twig of a tree that might grow over the mouth of the dungeon; and then suppose a lean beast should come and begin to gnaw and bite off that twig, what a miserable case will that poor man be in? why just so it is with thee oh Christless ⟨p. 53⟩man, thy life in this twig, and death is the lean beast that is biting off this twig of life, and then thou failest down into a dungeon of darkness, there is nothing but the twig of life between thee and hell.
4. If you look downwards, there is death ready to receive you, which is but as a back-door to let you into hell, and if you look lower, there is nothing but a dungeon of darknesse, where infernall spirits are reserved in chains of darknesse, to the judgement of the great day. Which way soever a Christlesse man looks there are nothing but miseries accompany him; if he looks outward, there the creatures are against him; if he looks inward, there is a galled, and accusing conscience ready to accuse him; if he looke above him, there is an angry God against him; if he look below him, there is the Devill ready to receive him: a Christlesse man is in a most sad and dolefull condition, as I might exemplifie by this familiar similitude; Suppose a man were falling into a great and dark dungeon, wherein there were nothing but Toads and Serpents, and all manner of venemous beasts, and as he were falling in, should catch hold of a twig of a tree that might grow over the mouth of the dungeon; and then suppose a lean beast should come and begin to gnaw and bite off that twig, what a miserable case will that poor man be in? why just so it is with thee oh Christlesse