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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. You that make this a ground for your hope, you do pervert the end for which God hath recorded the examples of ⟨p. 187⟩his servants in Scripture, for God did not record them there, to be a provocation to thee to go on presumptuously in sinning against him, but merely to be a restraint and caveat to keep thee from falling into the same sins, which they did; if Noah, and Lot, and David, and Peter, &c. such holy and excellent men as these, had their failings, and did commit great and gross sins, oh then let me take heed lest I am overtaken, and fall into the same sins; this is the use that we should make of the failings of other man, as in 1 Cor. 10. 11. All 1things are written for our example, to admonish us upon whom the ends of the world are come, 2and in 1 Tim. 1. 16. says the Apostle, I obtained mercy, that I might be an example to all that should hereafter believe in Jesus Christ.
1. You that make this a ground for your hope, you do pervert the end for which God hath recorded the examples of ⟨p. 187⟩his servants in Scripture, for God did not record them there, to be a provocation to thee to goe on presumptuously in sinning against him, but meerly to be a restraint and caveat to keep thee from falling into the same sins, which they did; if Noah, and Lot, and David, and Peter, &c. such holy and excellent men as these, had their failings, and did commit great and grosse sins, oh then let me take heed lest I am overtaken, and fall into the same sins; this is the use that we should make of the failings of other man, as in 1 Cor. 10. 11. All 1things are written for our example, to admonish us upon whom the ends of the world are come,