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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. The Funerals of the godly are but the Funerals of their sins, and frailties, and weaknesses: peccatum moritur, miseria moritur, homo non moritur, 'tis not the man dyeth, but the sin, the misery dyeth: all other means and dispensations do but weaken sin, but Death destroyeth it; when God justifieth, the damning power is gone, when God sanctifieth, the reigning power is gone, but when by death we come to be glorified, then the very being of it is gone: when the house was infected with leprosy, so as scraping would not serve the turn, it was to be digged down, we are so infected with sin that all other remedies are too weak, nothing but death will serve the turn: when Ivy is gotten into a wall it cannot be wholly destroyed, till the wall it self be demolished; cut off the stump, the body, the boughs, the branches, still there are some strings that are ready to sprout again; so tis here, original sin cannot be destroyed, the constant groans of the faithful are, *Who shall deliver us from this body and mass of sin? But now Death is a sudden cure, sin brought in death, and as it were in revenge, death destroyeth sin.
1. The Funerals of the godly are but the Funerals of their sins, and frailties, and weaknesses: peccatum moritur, miseria moritur, homo non moritur, 'tis not the man dyeth, but the sin, the misery dyeth: all other means and dispensations doe but weaken sin, but Death destroyeth it; when God justifieth, the damning power is gone, when God sanctifieth, the reigning power is gone, but when by death we come to be glorified, then the very beeing of it is gone: when the house was infected with leprosie, so as scraping would not serve the turn, it was to be digged down, we are so infected with sin that all other remedies are too weak, nothing but death will serve the turn: when Ivy is gotten into a wall it cannot be wholly destroyed, till the wall it self be demolished; cut off the stump, the body, the boughes, the branches, still there are some strings that are ready to sprowt again; so tis here, originall sin cannot be destroyed, the constant groans of the faithfull are, *Who shall deliver us from this body and masse of sin? But now Death is a sudden cure, sinne brought in death, and as it were in revenge, death destroyeth sin.
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