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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
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Quest. 4 4. The fourth Query in order is this; that seeing the Scripture says a wicked man hath no hope, and esteems of their false and presumptuous hope, to be as good as no hope; then how shall we know the difference between those well grounded hopes a godly man hath, and those presumptuous and deluding hopes wicked men have?
Quest. 4 4. The fourth Query in order is this; that seeing the Scripture sayes a wicked man hath no hope, and esteems of their false and presumptuous hope, to be as good as no hope; then how shall we know the difference between those well grounded hopes a godly man hath, and those presumptuous and deluding hopes wicked men have?
Answ. Ans. I shall here give you six apparent differences between them.
1. The hopes of a godly and regenerate man for heaven; it is gotten by, and grounded upon the word of God: and therefore it is called the hope of the Gospel, because 1it is gotten by the Gospel as the means, and grounded upon the Gospel as the end: that we (says the Apostle) through the comfort of the Scriptures might have 2hope: a godly man hath his comforts from the Scriptures. Psal. 119. 49. Good is the 3word of the Lord, wherein thou hast caused thy servant to hope. But now the hopes of wicked men, as they are gotten they know not how, so neither do they know upon what they are grounded, and this is the reason why they are called presumptuous hopes; for this is presumption, when a man does believe a thing, when he can have no visible nor likely means, to ground or bottom his hopes upon.