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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.
I Have delivered you in my last, three Scripture discoveries of an Atheist; there are ten other Characters yet behind, that are drawn from the Scriptures: As,
I Have delivered you in my last, three Scripture discoveries of an Atheist; there are ten other Characters yet behinde, that are drawn from the Scriptures: As,
1. That man is an Atheist that does indulge and favour himself in the practise of secret sins; he that does continually allow and favour himself in the practise of secret sins, that man lives as if there were no God in the world: Reverend Mr. Perkins gives us this badge of an Atheist, that that very sin which he will not dare to commit in the presence of a child, yet that sin will he venture upon when no eye sees him; thou that canst venture upon a sin, in hope of secrecy, thinking to hide it from the All-seeing ⟨p. 247⟩Eye of God, thou art a very Atheist, thou that darest do that in the sight of God, that thou art afraid to do in the presence of a man; this proceeds merely from a root of Atheism that is in the heart, as in Job 22. 12, 13, 14. when a 1wicked man hath done wickedly, he is ready to say. How doth God know? can he judge through the thick clouds? thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; these are the expressions of an Atheistical heart. An Atheist if he can but keep himself from the censure and reproach of men, he is well enough, if men cannot say black to his eye, or there goes a drunkard, a swearer, an adulterer, or the like, he is never troubled for his sins. Oh therefore thou that wouldst be accounted chaste, where thou dwellest, and yet keepest thy Delilah in thy lap: and oh thou debauched liver, that canst quietly and securely walk on in ways of sin, so that thou canst but keep them from the eyes of men; know thus much, that this proceeds from thy Atheistical heart. When the hope of secrecy emboldens any man to the practise of any sin, that man is a very Atheist: you that can fear the eye of a mortal man, and yet not be afraid of the All-seeing Eye of an immortal God, you that were never troubled for your sins, when no body knew them but your selves; but now this