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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
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5. He is cursed not only in his estate, in his house, in his Land, in his calling, but in his eating and drinking too; you have a strange expression for this in Job. 20. 23. When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him when he is eating; so in Psal. 38. 30, 31. While the meat was yet in their months, the wrath of the Lord came upon them.
5. He is cursed not only in his estate, in his house, in his Land, in his calling, but in his eating and drinking too; you have a strange expression for this in Job. 20. 23. When he is about to fil his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him when he is eating; so in Psal. 38. 30, 31. While the meat was yet intheir months, the wrath of the Lord came upon them.
Thus then you see the positive part of mans misery out of Christ, what he undergoes: We come now to show you the privative part, of his misery, what he wants; and here very much might be spoken in declaring the misery of a Christless man in the privative part of it, in those things which he wants in being without an interest in Christ; but I shall run over this briefly, and comprise all that I have to say to you under these six heads, and then come to the application: first then, are you without Christ? why 1then you are without strength, as in Joh. 25. 5. Without me you can do nothing, says Christ; nay Paul goes further in 2 Cor. 3. 25. We are of our selves as of our selves, says he, not able to think a good thought, but all our sufficiency is from God: herein lies the misery of a man out of Christ, he is able to do nothing, he is like Sampson without his hair,