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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.
EPHES. 2. 12. —Having no hope—
WE come now to fall upon the fourth part of an unconverted mans misery, (which you will think to be a very strange one) that he is without hope; while these Ephesians were in a state of Gentilism, unconverted to the Faith of Christ, they were without hope, & the reason of it was, because they were without Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life, there is no other way to heaven but only by Jesus Christ, and seeing they were out of the way to heaven, they must needs be without any hopes of coming to heaven; it was the first branch of their misery, in being without Christ that exposed them, and made them liable to all the rest, because they were without Christ, ⟨p. 166⟩therefore they were aliens to the Commonwealth of Israel, & therefore they were strangers to the Covenant of Promise, and without hope, and without God in the World.
WEE come now to fall upon the fourth part of an unconverted mans misery, (which you will think to be a very strange one) that he is without hope; while these Ephesians were in a state of Gentilism, unconverted to the Faith of Christ, they were without hope, & the reason of it was, because they were without Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life, there is no other way to heaven but onely by Jesus Christ, and seeing they were out of the way to heaven, they must needs be without any hopes of coming to heaven; it was the first branch of their misery, in being without Christ that exposed them, and made them lyable to all the rest, because they were without Christ, ⟨p. 166⟩therefore they were aliens to the Commonwealth of Israel, & therefore they were strangers to the Covenant of Promise, and without hope, and without God in the World.