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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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4. Another property of a man without 1Christ is, that he is a blind man: Rev. 3. 17. and knewest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked and hence it is, that wicked men during their unregeneracy are called darkness, in Ephes. 5. 8. You were sometime darkness, but 2now are you like in the Lord, walk as children of the light: So light is come into the world, 3and yet men love larknesse rather then light, because their deeds are evil. Jesus Christ is to the soul that which the son is to the earth, take away the Sun from the earth, and it is nothing but a dungeon of darkness: so take away Christ from the Soul and it is nothing but a dungeon of the Devil; though there be a Christ in the world, yet if the heart be shut, and Jesus Christ be not in thee, thou art in a state of darkness and blindness.
4. Another property of a man without 1Christ is, that he is a blinde man: Rev. 3. 17. and knewest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blinde, and naked and hence it is, that wicked men during their unregeneracy are called darknesse, in Ephes. 5. 8. You were sometime darknesse, but 2now are you like in the Lord, walk as children of the light: So light is come into the world, 3and yet men love larknesse rather then light, because their deeds are evil. Jesus Christ is to the soul that which the son is to the earth, take away the Sun from the earth, and it is nothing but a dungeon of darknesse: so take away Christ from the Soul and it is nothing but a dungeon of the Devill; though there be a Christ in the world, yet if the heart be shut, and Jesus Christ be not in thee, thou art in a state of darknesse and blindenesse.