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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.
These are the Cautions necessary to be premised; I come now to give you the Reasons of the point, why it is the will ⟨p. 9⟩of God, that people in a converted estate, should often call to mind the sin and misery they were in before conversion, and Reas 1 1. God will have it so, because by so doing, you will be provoked the more highly to magnify and admire the greatness and riches of Gods grace to you; there are none in the World greater admirers of Gods grace and mercy, then those that are most studious of their own sin and misery: thou wilt never solemnly and throughly magnify Gods mercy, till thou art plunged into a deep sensibleness of thine own misery, till the Lord hath brought thee to see in what a miserable and deplorable condition thou wert in before conversion, thou wilt then admire and magnify the riches of Gods free grace, in bringing thee out of that condition, into the estate of grace, as in 1 Tim. 1. 13. the Apostle Paul when he 1would magnify the free grace of God to him, saith he, I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious; and yet through the abundance of Gods free grace and mercy, I have obtained mercy: the consideration of his former sinfulness did elevate and screw up his heart, to make him admire the free grace of God to his soul; that man can never prize liberty as he should do, that never was in prison: But,
These are the Cautions necessary to be premised; I come now to give you the Reasons of the point, why it is the will ⟨p. 9⟩of God, that people in a converted estate, should often cal to minde the sin and misery they were in before conversion, and Reas 1 1. God will have it so, because by so doing, you will be provoked the more highly to magnifie and admire the greatnesse and riches of Gods grace to you; there are none in the World greater admirers of Gods grace and mercy, then those that are most studious of their own sin and misery: thou wilt never solemnly and throughly magnifie Gods mercy, till thou art plunged into a deep sensiblenesse of thine own misery, till the Lord hath brought thee to see in what a miserable and deplorable condition thou wert in before conversion, thou wilt then admire and magnifie the riches of Gods free grace, in bringing thee out of that condition, into the estate of grace, as in