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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. Being out of the covenant of grace, this is your misery, God will in exactness and rigour of justice proceed against you for your sins, without any mixture of mercy at all. (Beloved) God hath no mercy without his covenant, but in the covenant of grace, he is a God gracious and merciful, slow to anger, 1and of great kindness, abundant in mercy and truth, pardoning iniquity, transgressions, and sins, but he is clothed with justice and rigour to all that are without this covenant. As it is in courts of judicature in point of life and death, the Judge will take no notice whether the man be a sorrowful man or no, the Law is not to show mercy, but to punish the offence, the Law does not enquire whether the man be penitent and sorry for what he hath done, but whether the fact be done or no, if it be, he must dye for it, there is no remedy: just so it is here, God doth not enquire under a covenant of works, whether you are sorrowful for breaking of his Law, but he enquires whether you have broken it, or no; and if you have, he will condemn thee, and cast thee into hell fire, and then the poor soul cries out, Oh Lord be merciful to me this once, it shall be a warning to me, ⟨p. 140⟩I will never sin against thee, nor displease thee more, but will from henceforth walk more humbly, and holily, and circumspectly before thee, and yet all this that thou hast promised, if thou wert able to perform it, will not avail thee, for God will hear none out of Christ, and out of the covenant of grace.
4. Being out of the covenant of grace, this is your misery, God will in exactnesse and rigour of justice proceed against you for your sins, without any mixture of mercy at all. (Beloved) God hath no mercy without his covenant, but in the covenant of grace, he is a God gracious and mercifull, slow to anger, 1and of great kindnesse, abundant in mercy and truth, pardoning iniquity, transgressions, and sins, but he is cloathed with justice and rigour to all that are without this covenant. As it is in courts of judicature in point of life and death, the Judge will take no notice whether the man be a sorrowfull man or no, the Law is not to shew mercy, but to punish the offence, the Law does not enquire whether the man be penitent and sorry for what he hath done, but whether the fact be done or no, if it be, he must dye for it, there is no remedy: just so it is here, God doth not enquire under a covenant of works, whether you are sorrowfull for breaking of his Law, but he enquires whether you have broken it, or no; and if you have, he will condemn thee, and cast thee into hell fire, and then the poor soul cryes out, Oh Lord be mercifull to me this once, it shall be a warning to me,