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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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7. Another property of a man out of Christ is, that he is a dead man. You know that common place in 1 Joh. 5. 12. He that 1hath the Son he hath life, and he that hath not the Son he hath not life, hence we read in Eph. 2. 1. that unregenerate men are dead in 2trespasses and sins, and the reason is, because that Christ is a Believers life: Col. 3. 3. 3Our life is hid with Christ in God, take away Christ from a man and you take away his life, and take away life from a man and he is a dead lump of flesh; unregenerate men are termed strangers to the life of godliness, and therefore must needs be dead in their sins; though they do enjoy the life of a man, yet if the life that he lives be not by the Faith of the Son of God, he is spiritually dead: §1As for example, you know a dead man he feels nothing, do what you will to him, he does not feel it; so a man that is spiritually dead, he does not feel the weight of his sins, though they are a heavy burden pressing him down into the pit of Hell, he is a stranger to the life of godliness, and past feeling, given over to a reprobate sense, so that he feels not the weight and burden of all his sins.
7. Another property of a man out of Christ is, that he is a dead man. You know that common place in 1 Joh. 5. 12. He that 1hath the Son he hath life, and he that hath not the Son he hath not life, hence we read in Eph. 2. 1. that unregenerate men are dead in 2