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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. Without Christ thou art without liberty. If the son make you free, then are you free indeed, Joh. 8. 36. And unless the Son ⟨p. 62⟩make you free, you are slaves indeed, slaves to sin, slaves to your lusts, slaves to the creatures, and slaves to the devil by whom you are taken captive at his will, you are never free men and women till the Son make you free.
5. Without Christ thou art without liberty. If the son make you free, then are you free indeed, Joh. 8. 36. And unlesse the Son ⟨p. 62⟩make you free, you are slaves indeed, slaves to sin, slaves to your lusts, slaves to the creatures, and slaves to the devill by whom you are taken captive at his will, you are never free men and women till the Son make you free.
6. If thou art without Jesus Christ, thou art without beauty, thou art only like a carcass without life, or a body without a head; it is Christ only, that gives us beauty and comeliness. Ezek. 116. 14. And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty, for it was perfect through my comeliness that I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God; if we have not the comeliness of Christ put upon us, we are not comely; you have a pretty passage in Luk. 2. 32. Christ is there called the glory of the children of Israel, Christ is the glory of the children of Israel that do believe in him: there is no glory, but a body full of sores and botches, in all those that are out of Christ.