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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.
8. Look on thy left hand, and there are all the miseries, and afflictions, and sufferings, and reproaches, and diseases, and sad accidents that you meet with, as so many forerunners of those unutterable, and untolerable, and unsupportable sufferings, which a Christless man shall undergo to all eternity.
8. Look on thy left hand, and there are all the miseries, and afflictions, and sufferings, and reproaches, and diseases, and sad accidents that you meet with, as so many forerunners of those unutterable, and untolerable, and unsupportable sufferings, which a Christlesse man shall undergoe to all eternity.
Oh then unhappy man that thou art, that hast not an interest in Jesus Christ! without thee, and within thee; above thee, and below thee; before thee, and behind thee; on thy right hand, and on thy left, there are nothing but miseries accompany thee on every side. Thus much for the first positive part, of the misery of a Christless man; it is a very sad point that I am now upon, and therefore I shall sweeten all in the close, with two or three words of consolation.
Oh then unhappy man that thou art, that hast not an interest in Jesus Christ! without thee, and within thee; above thee, and below thee; before thee, and behinde thee; on thy right hand, and on thy left, there are nothing but miseries accompanie thee on every side. Thus much for the first positive part, of the misery of a Christlesse man; it is a very sad point that I am now upon, and therefore I shall sweeten all in the close, with two or three words of consolation.
But 2 (Beloved follow me now) Thou that art a Christless man or woman, thy misery in the positive part of it lies in this, there will be nothing in the world so dismal and intolerable to thy soul, as the apprehensions of a God without Jesus Christ: God that is an amiable, and desirable,