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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 application, which 1may serve for unspeakable comfort to all you that are the people of God, that can lay a well grounded and Scripture claim to God as your God.
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1. If you have God, you have all things; and let me tell you, you that have God for your God, you may outvie all the Kings, and Princes, and Potentates in the World. Other men may say, they have wealth, and you have none; they have riches, and honours, and pleasures, and you have none: but you may go further, and out-vie them all, for you can say, you have an interest in God, and they have none. Wicked men cannot lay claim to God as theirs; and therefore when they speak of God, they speak of him as a God to others, and not to them, as in Gen. 31. 29. when Laban spake to Jacob, (says he) The God of your Fathers: and so Pharaoh in Exod. 8. 25. 28. (says he) Go sacrifice to your God in the land: and from hence Divines do observe, that the Scriptures do not ⟨p. 274⟩suffer wicked men to name God, as in a way of propriety to them, as their God: but now those that are righteous and holy, that have indeed an interest in God, God is not ashamed to be called their God. You that have an interest in God though 1you are a poor despicable people, yet be not afraid to own God as your God, for the Lord is not ashamed, that you should call him your God; God is not ashamed of us whose dwellings are in the dust, he will own us: and therefore let this encourage you to go to God as your God, and apply him as your God, and trust in him as your God, and pray to him and call upon him as your God, for he is not ashamed of you. And here that I may speak a little further to this particular, I would exhort you to two things.