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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
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2. The hurt of it is prevented: as you are chosen and sanctified in Christ Jesus, it cannot hurt you, I say again death may kill you, but it cannot hurt you, it hath no power over the better part, like a Serpent it feedeth only upon your dust; nay, and for your bodies, that which dyeth as a creature, is sure to live as a member of Christ; the Lord Jesus is our head in the grave; your bodies have a principle of life within them; believers are raised by the Spirit of holiness, the same Spirit that quickeneth them now to the offices of grace, shall raise their mortal bodies. So Rom. 8. 11. He shall quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit, that dwelleth in you: The holy Ghost can never leave his old mansion and dwelling place: how many grounds of comfort have we against the mortality of the body! Christ is united to body and soul, and he will not let ⟨p. 17⟩his Mystical body want one sinew or joint; in the account that he is to make to the Father, he saith he is to lose nothing, Joh. 6. 39. Mark, he doth not say none, but nothing: Christ will not lose a leg, or a piece of an ear: Again, God is in Covenant with body and soul, when you go down to the chambers of death, you may challenge him upon the Charter of his own Grace; God is the God of Abraham's dust, of a believers dust, though it be mingled with the remains of wicked men, yet Christ will sever it: Mat. 22. 32. Christ proveth the resurrection of the body, by that argument, that God is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the ground of the argument is, that God made his Covenant not only with the souls of the Patriarchs, but with their whole persons: Again, Christ hath purchased body and soul, so much is intimated in that place 1 Cor. 6. 20. Ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies; Christ had payed price enough to get a title to body and soul, and therefore he will not lose one bit of his purchase; the Lord will call the grave to an account, Where is the body of my Abraham, my Isaac, my Jacob? tis said, Rev. 20. 13