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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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2. True and patient hope is bottomed upon the mercies of God, and the merits of Jesus Christ; and hence it is, that Christ is called our hope, because he is the 1foundation on whom believers do build all their hopes for heaven; so likewise they build their hope on the mercies of God, in Psal. 147. 11. The Lord taketh pleasure 2in those that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy: and again in Psal. 33. 18. The eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that trust in his mercy: and so in ⟨p. 222⟩Psal. 52. 8. says David there, I trust in the mercies of God for ever and ever. A godly man he is cast out of himself, and out of an opinion of his own righteousness, and his hopes are only built upon the mercy of God, and on the merits of Christ. But now the false and presumptuous hopes that wicked men have, are not built so much upon Gods mercy as their own duties, and not so much upon the merits of Christ, what he hath done for them, as upon their own duties what they have done for themselves.
2. True and patient hope is bottomed upon the mercies of God, and the merits of Jesus Christ; and hence it is, that Christ is called our hope, because he is the 1foundation on whom beleevers do build all their hopes for heaven; so likewise they build their hope on the mercies of God, in Psal. 147. 11. The Lord taketh pleasure 2in those that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy: and again in Psal. 33. 18. The eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that trust in his mercy: and so in