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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. For consolation, to the people of God, though the Scripture says a wicked man hath no hope, yet it says otherwise of you that are a people of God, the Scripture tells you that your hope is laid up in heaven 1for you; and the Lord is your hope; though wicked men have no hopes for heaven, yet you have grounded, and assured, and certain hopes for heaven: your hope is laid up for you in another world; the wicked have only their hopes in this ⟨p. 226⟩life, and when they die, their hopes shall 2perish, as in Prov. 11. 7. When a wicked man dyeth, his expectation shall perish, and the hope of unjust men perisheth; but it is not so with you, for the godly hope in their death. And 3this hope of a godly man, is not as the Papists hold, for though they grant a believer hath hope, yet they deny that any have assurance, they say that all a believers evidence for heaven is only a hope, a p••l adventure, (a most uncomfortable tenet;) whereas the Scripture says, there is as full an assurance of hope, as of faith, in Heb. 416. 11. says the Apostle, use all diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end, and so in Rom. 15. 5. Your hope is such as will not make 5you ashamed; your hopes are not like the hopes of men that hope for dead […] shoes (as the proverb is), for they may go on barefoot before they die, but Christ, who is our hope, he hath dyed already, and risen again; he hath made his will and testament; and hath left us legacies, and be queathed riches to us: our hopes are well grounded hopes, not as other mens are, that will leave them, when they have most need of them.