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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.
Now if you ask me in which of these four senses these Ephesians here in the text, were without God, I answer, that they were without God in all of them, for while they were in a state of Gentilism, they were without the knowledge of the true God, and without the worship of the true God, and without any obedience to the true God, and without any real interest and propriety in God, but chiefly the two latter are included in this phrase; the general point of Doctrine that I shall observe, from this last branch of mans misery shall be this,
Now if you ask me in which of these four senses these Ephesians here in the text, were without God, I answer, that they were without God in all of them, for while they were in a state of Gentilism, they were without the knowledge of the true God, and without the worship of the true God, and without any obedience to the true God, and without any reall interest and propriety in God, but chiefly the two latter are included in this phrase; the generall point of Doctrine that I shall observe, from this last branch of mans misery shall be this,
Doctr. That every man during the state of his unregeneracy ⟨p. 237⟩is without God in the world; this only in the general.
Doctr. That every man during the state of his unregeneracy ⟨p. 237⟩is without God in the world; this only in the generall.
But here some may enquire what is meant by this expression without God in the World; The meaning is, that they were without any propriety or interest in God in this world, and if they are without God in this world, they must of necessity be without God in another world. And thus you have the words explained to you, I shall now give you a more particular view of them; without God in the World, the words as they are rendered in our translation, incline this way, for a man to be without any peculiar interest and propriety in God, but these words (without God in the World) in the Greek signifies Atheists in the World; that is, they did so live as if there were no God in the World; so then the words being thus opened, there are two things involved in this phrase without God in the World.