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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49252	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 ...	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.; Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677. Saints triumph over death.	1652 (1652)	Wing L3169; ESTC R35003	150,068	340

are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts thereby intimating that they that have not crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts thereof have no interest in the Lord Jesus Christ when Christ came in the flesh we crucified him but if ever Christ comes into thy soul he will crucifie thee they that are Christs they do crucifie the flesh Christ will be avenged on thy sins and crucifie thy lusts and kill thy corruptions when he comes into thy soul But here beloved I do not mean a totall subduing of sin as if every lust and corruption should be quite subdued but only thus far to give a deadly blow to sin that sin shall not reign nor bear sway in thy soul as it hath done formerly sin in the heart of one that is in Christ shall be like those Monarchs spoken of in Dan. 7. 12. it is said their Dominions shall be taken away but their lives shall be prolonged for a little season just so it is with sin in the heart of a beleever the dominion of sin is taken away but the life and beeing of it is preserved for a little season there shall be some remainders of sin still in the best of Gods servants but sin shall not reign in their mortall bodies and therefore you that never had any power to mortifie your sins that never had any bridle of restraint to any of your lusts lay no claim to Jesus Christ for they that are his have crucified the flesh with the lusts thereof I might here make use of a story that I have often told you of in the History of Scotland there is mention made of an Island situate in the midst of the Sea between Scotland and Ireland and there was a great controversie between the two Nations to which of the Kingdomes this Island did belong and a great Polititian to decide the controversie commands a great company of Toads and Frogs to be gathered together and put into the Island and if those venomous and unclean beasts should live there then the Island belonged to Scotland but if they died then it belonged to Ireland for no unclean creature does inhabit there just so it is with us there is a great controversie between Christ and the Devill to which thy soul does belong why now if poisonsome lusts venomous sins can live and thrive in thy soul then you belong to the Devil but if these lusts and sins dy in your soul then you belong to Jesus Christ 3. Another Character is this that man that is without unfeigned love to the person of Christ that man is without any interest in Christ for every one that hath Christ loves him and every one that hath him not loves him not 1 Cor. 16. 2. If any man loves not the Lord Christ let him be accursed he that does not love Christ hath no interest in Christ and shall be accursed when Christ shall come to judgement Object Object But some will be ready to say If this be so that the not loving of Christ be an argument of the not having of Christ wby then I think I am well enough for I do love Christ with all my heart Answ Answ I will tell thee in the very words of Christ who it is that loves him Joh. 14. 24. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings does not thy conscience tell thee O man that thou dost not care for any command of Jesus Christ let him command what he will you will do what you list you see here Christ tels thee plainly that he that loveth him not keepeth not his sayings I beseech you therefore in the fear of God take heed of deceiving your own souls in thinking you love Christ when there is no such matter but labour to love him in truth and evidence your love to him by keeping of his Commandemants 4. That man that is without any saving knowledge of Christ is without any actuall interest in Christ there is no man that hath Christ but knows Christ Mistake me not I do not say that every man that hath Christ knows he hath him for a man may have Christ and yet not know of it for the present but this I say he that hath an interest in Christ whosoever he be he must know Christ in part Joh. 8. 54 55. You say that God is your God and yet you have not known him 't is a very strange place you say that God and salvation by him and all is yours and yet you have not known him Oh my Beloved you say you have Christ and yet you have not known Christ he himself will convince you at the last day of laying a false claim to him read Joh. 1. 12. compared with the 24. and 26. verses Now when I tell you that a man without the knowledge of Christ is without any interest in Christ I do not say that those are without Christ that have not so great a measure of knowledge as other men have but when you are without the knowledge of Christ accompanyed with these two circumstances then I can safely pronounce you to be a Christlesse man 1. If you be without the knowledge of Christ and yet sit down contented in your ignorance neither desiring nor labouring after the knowledge of him then I may safely say that for the present thou art without Jesus Christ if you are like those spoken of in 2 Pet. 3. 5. For this they are willingly ignorant of that by the word of God the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water or like those in Job 2. 14. that say unto God Depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes if you are such as these I can safely pronounce you to be Christlesse men 2. Not only when you are contentedly ignorant but likewise when with obscurity in your Judgements you adde obstinacy in your wils when thou art an Ignorant and dost not know and wilt not know that hast not learned and yet will not learn but art like those spoken of in Psal 82. 5. They know not neither will they understand he does not say they know not neither do they but neither will they understand a godly man may have the former of these although you be very ignorant yet if you desire to know you may have an interest in Christ but I am bold to say in case you are ignorant and yet sit down contentedly and do not care to know more and obstinately and will not learn more that you have no interest in Christ and therefore keep off your hands from Christ lay no claim to him for you have nothing to do with him he is none of yours 5. Another Character is this that man that is without a hearing ear to the voice of Christ and an obedient heart to the mands of Christ that man hath no interest in Christ I shall give you two plain texts of