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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.
Ans. Now to such as you are, by way of 1answer, I shall leave these two or three words for your comfort.
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1. Take this for an answer, that in Scripture account to complain of thy ignorance, is a good degree of knowledge: in Prov. 30. 23. you read there of Agur, who was an excellent man in virtue and knowledge, in the time of Solomon, and yet you shall not read of a man that more complains of his ignorance then this man doth: Surely (says he) I am more brutish 1then any man, and have not the understanding of a man: I have neither learned wisdom, nor attained to the knowledge of the holy; and yet this man that so much complains of his ignorance, did demonstrate such fruits of ⟨p. 267⟩grace and knowledge in his practise, as ever man did.
1. Take this for an answer, that in Scripture account to complain of thy ignorance, is a good degree of knowledge: in Prov. 30. 23. you read there of Agur, who was an excellent man in vertue and knowledge, in the time of Solomon, and yet you shall not read of a man that more complaines of his ignorance then this man doth: Surely (sayes hee) I am more brutish 1then any man, and have not the understanding of a man: I have neither learned wisdome, nor attained to the knowledge of the holy; and yet this man that so much complains of his ignorance, did demonstrate such fruits of