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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.
1. If you be a man under the covenant of grace, in covenant with God, then you are disengaged from that league and covenant which you have made and contracted with your lusts, whosoever is in covenant with God, he hath broken his league with his lusts; you cannot be in covenant with Christ, till you fall off from your lusts, and break off from your sins, as in Act. 3. 25, 26. says the Apostle, 1You are the children of the Prophets, and of the covenant, which God hath made with our Fathers; saying to Abraham, even in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed: First ⟨p. 158⟩unto you hath God raised up his Son Jesus Christ, and him he hath sent to bless you, in turning every one of you from your iniquities; so that if you are children of the covenant, the Lord will turn every one of you from your wicked ways, and therefore you that are not turned from the evil of your courses, that have not broken that league you have made with death and hell, you can lay no claim to the covenant of grace, as in Psal. 50. 16. says God there to the 2wicked, What hast thou to do, to take my covenant into thy mouth, seeing thou hatest to be reformed, and castest my words behind thee? thou wilt not forsake thy lusts, nor leave thy sins, and therefore what hast thou to do to meddle with my covenant of grace? you can lay no claim to the Covenant, till you have cast off the old man, and subdued and overcome your sins and corruptions.
1. If you be a man under the covenant of grace, in covenant with God, then you are disingaged from that league and covenant which you have made and contracted with your lusts, whosoever is in covenant with God, he hath broken his league with his lusts; you cannot be in covenant with Christ, till you fall off from your lusts, and break off from your sins, as in Act. 3. 25, 26. sayes the Apostle, 1