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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.
2. Let me tell you thus much, that your hopes will leave you, when you have most need of them. Prov. 11. 7. the place before quoted; The hope of the wicked shall be cut off, and when he dies, his expectations shall perish: he looks for heaven, but he shall be disappointed; as in Job 8. 14. His confidence shall be cut off, and his trust shall be sake a Spiders web, as the Spider wraps himself in his web, and dwells there securely all the week long, but at the end of the week, when the maid comes to sweep the windows, she sweeps down the web, and the Spider both; just so the hopes of all wicked men shall come to nothing: and so in Job 11. 20. The eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape; and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost. As a dying man, a little before his death, is pretty joyful and merry, and entertains some hopes of a longer life, but when his ⟨p. 228⟩eye-strings crack, and the tokens of death appear upon him, then his heart fails him, and all his hopes are dashed in pieces, and taken from him; just so it is with wicked men, they are full of hopes for heaven, till they come to dye, but then their hopes leave them, and all their expectations perish.
2. Let me tell you thus much, that your hopes will leave you, when you have most need of them. Prov. 11. 7. the place before quoted; The hope of the wicked shall be cut off, and when he dies, his expectations shall perish: he looks for heaven, but he shall be disappointed; as in Job 8. 14. His confidence shall be cut off, and his trust shall be sake a Spiders web, as the Spider wraps himself in his web, and dwels there securely all the week long, but at the end of the week, when the maid comes to sweep the windowes, she sweeps down the web, and the Spider both; just so the hopes of all wicked men shall come to nothing: and so in Job 11. 20. The eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape; and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost. As a dying man, a little before his death, is pretty joyfull and merry, and entertains some hopes of a longer life, but when his