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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.
WE come now to the fifth misery of men by Nature, which is this, that they are without God in the World; and here first I shall give you something from the order of the words, and then unfold them; and then draw out some Doctrines from them.
Quest. 1. For the order of the words, Why is their being without Christ put in the first place of the Text, and their being without God put in the last place?
Answ. Answ. Their being without Christ, is put in the first place, because it was the inlet of all their misery, and their being without God is put in the last place, because it is the final upshot of mans misery; it is the inlet of a mans misery to be without Christ, and it is his misery to be an alien to the Common-wealth of Israel, and a stranger to ⟨p. 233⟩the Covenant of Promise, and to be without hope, and it is the upshot of all thy misery to be without God in the World; and here I shall show you that there are multitudes of men and women in the World, that are without God, though they do every day worship God, yet they may live all their days without God; but before I speak to this, I must unfold two or three things in the words, as
Answ. Answ. Their being without Christ, is put in the first place, because it was the inlet of all their misery, and their being without God is put in the last place, because it is the finall upshot of mans misery; it is the inlet of a mans misery to bee without Christ, and it is his misery to be an alien to the Common-wealth of Israel, and a stranger to ⟨p. 233⟩