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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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3. Another thing that makes men live as if there were no God in the World, is the questioning of the authority of the Scriptures. I have read of one (a great scholar in this kingdom) that the means whereby he came to be an atheist was this, he first began to question, whether the Bible were the Word of God or no, because he did not know whether Moses that penned the beginning of it were a man of God or no; then he questioned how Moses could write of those things that were done before he was born, and then whether the Papists might not alter it in the translating of it; and many others questions till by degrees he came to be a very atheist, and to question whether there were a God or no: and so there are some errors now in print, that tend very much to atheism; there are some that do affirm, ⟨p. 242⟩that that Book or volume of Books called the Bible is not the Word of God, and such an opinion as this does very much work upon mens hearts and persuade them, that there is no God, as in i Pet. 3. 4. says the Apostle, There shall 1come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, (there are the Atheists, but how came they to be so? mark the next words) and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the Fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning, say they, we have heard that all men must be judged, that after death they must appear before the Judgement-seat of God, to give an account of all their actions; Now because they did not see these things accomplished already, they cried out, Where is the promise of his coming? they would not believe there was any such thing, the questioning of the truths of God was that which brought them to be very atheists.
3. Another thing that makes men live as if there were no God in the World, is the questioning of the authority of the Scriptures. I have read of one (a great scholar in this kingdome) that the means whereby he came to be an atheist was this, he first began to question, whether the Bible were the Word of God or no, because he did not know whether Moses that penned the beginning of it were a man of God or no; then he questioned how Moses could write of those things that were done before he was born, and then whether the Papists might not alter it in the translating of it; and many others questions till by degrees he came to be a very atheist, and to question whether there were a God or no: and so there are some errours now in print, that tend very much to atheism; there are some that doe affirme,