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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.
Well then, all the dead shall be cast up, as the Whale cast up Jonah, so the grave shall cast up her dead: the grave is but a chest wherein our bodies are kept safe till the day of Christ; and the key of this chest is not in the Devils hands, but Christs, see Rev. 1. 18. I have the keys of Death and Hell; when the body is laid up in the cold pit, 'tis laid up for another day; God hath an especial care of our dust and remains, when our friends and neighbours have left is, Christ leaveth it not, but keepeth it till the great and glorious day.
Well then, all the dead shall be cast up, as the Whale cast up Jonah, so the grave shall cast up her dead: the grave is but a chest wherein our bodies are kept safe till the day of Christ; and the key of this chest is not in the Devils hands, but Christs, see Rev. 1. 18. I have the keys of Death and Hell; when the body is laid up in the cold pit, 'tis laid up for another day; God hath an especiall care of our dust and remains, when our friends and neighbours have left is, Christ leaveth it not, but keepeth it till the great and glorious day.
3. We are eased from the terrors and horrors of death: death is terrible, as tis a penal and a natural evil, as I distinguished before; 1 As it is natural evil, death in it self is the greatest of all evils, [Greek or Hebrew], said an *heathen, which in Jobs language may be rendered, The King of terrors, Job 18. 14. We gush to see a Serpent, much more the grim visage of death; moral Philosophy could never find out a remedy against it; Heathens were either desperate, rash, stupid, or else they dissembled their gripes and fears; but Christ hath provided a remedy, he hath delivered us not only from the hurt of death, but the fear of death;