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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.
A godly man though he falls into sin sometimes, yet he will at length get the upper hand of sin; though for the present he be not able to grapple with sin, yet he ⟨p. 197⟩will overcome it at last, Grace will out grow sin, and get the victory over it; and thus I have showed you the second prop that wicked men build their hopes for heaven upon; we come now to a third and that is this;
A godly man though he fals into sin sometimes, yet he will at length get the upper hand of sin; though for the present he be not able to grapple with sin, yet he ⟨p. 197⟩will overcome it at last, Grace will out grow sinne, and get the victory over it; and thus I have shewed you the second prop that wicked men build their hopes for heaven upon; we come now to a third and that is this;
If you beat them off from the two former, then they fly to the mercies of God; Oh say they, God is a very merciful God, and I hope he that made me will save me, and that I shall go to heaven as well as other men, and the like. Now I do not deny but the mercies of God is the chiefest prop under heaven, that a man can build his hopes for heaven upon, but here I shall show you the rottenness of this prop likewise in four or five regards, and that the mercies of God in general are no sufficient ground at all, to build thy hopes for heaven upon, unless thou canst lay claim to the mercies of God in particular, for if you build your hopes upon the mercies of God in general,
If you beat them off from the two former, then they flie to the mercies of God; Oh say they, God is a very mercifull God, and I hope he that made me will save me, and that I shall goe to heaven as well as other men, and the like. Now I doe not deny but the mercies of God is the chiefest prop under heaven, that a man can build his hopes for heaven upon, but here I shall shew you the rottennesse of this prop likewise in four or five regards, and that the mercies of God in generall are no sufficient ground at all, to build thy hopes for heaven upon, unlesse thou canst lay claim to the mercies of God in particular, for if you build your hopes upon the mercies of God in generall,