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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.
1. To be without Christ is to be without the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ: though a man during his unconverted estate, may gather together a great deal of notional knowledge, yet the Scripture doth lay him under this condition, that he is a man without Christ. Now a man may be said to be without the knowledge of Christ in these 5 particulars.
1. To be without Christ is to be without the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ: though a man during his unconverted estate, may gather together a great deal of notionall knowledge, yet the Scripture doth lay him under this condition, that he is a man without Christ. Now a man may be said to be without the knowledge of Christ in these 5 particulars.
1 A man may have a common knowledge of Christ, and yet be without a spiritual knowledge of Christ, he may have a natural knowledge by the works of God, by hearing, reading, or the like, and yet be without a spiritual knowledge, to know Christ in a spiritual manner.
1 A man may have a common knowledge of Christ, and yet be without a spirituall knowledge of Christ, he may have a naturall knowledge by the works of God, by hearing, reading, or the like, and yet be without a spirituall knowledge, to know Christ in a spirituall manner.
2 A man may have a notional, and yet be without an experimental knowledge of Christ; and hence it is that the Scripture expresseth the difference between the knowledge of the righteous and of the wicked man; the Lord plants wisdom in the secret parts of his children, but in the outward parts, in the head and in the brain of wicked men, God makes his Children to know Christ in the inward parts.