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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

or speak for you Christ is a mediator to those only that are under a covenant of grace now what canst thou say for thy self oh man why thou shouldst not be condemned and damned in hell for ever for thy drunkennesse adultery sabbath-breaking prophanenesse swearing lying and thy ungodly practises thou canst have nothing to plead for thy selfe but must needs be cast out into hell fire irrecoverably but now a godly man that is under the covenant of grace he can say Lord here is Christ my mediatour that pleads with thee for the pardon of all my sins and for the obtaining of heaven and happinesse and glory for me through his obedience and merits but thou that art under the covenant of works thou canst not say I have Christ to plead for me and to be an Advocate with the Father to beg for pardon of sin and life and salvation for thee thou canst not say so for without the covenant of grace there is no Mediator Christ is the Mediator onely of the new covenant therefore what sad condition art thou in seeing as verily as thou standest here now so thou must one day stand before Gods tribunall to answer and be judged for every thing thou hast done in thy body whether it be good or evill and then thou wilt have no body to plead for thee but must inevitably be cast into everlasting burnings 4. Being out of the covenant of grace this is your misery God will in exactnesse and rigour of justice proceed against you for your sins without any mixture of mercy at all Beloved God hath no mercy without his covenant but in the covenant of grace he is a God gracious and mercifull slow to anger and of great kindnesse abundant in mercy and truth pardoning iniquity transgressions and sins but he is cloathed with justice and rigour to all that are without this covenant As it is in courts of judicature in point of life and death the Judge will take no notice whether the man be a sorrowfull man or no the Law is not to shew mercy but to punish the offence the Law does not enquire whether the man be penitent and sorry for what he hath done but whether the fact be done or no if it be he must dye for it there is no remedy just so it is here God doth not enquire under a covenant of works whether you are sorrowfull for breaking of his Law but he enquires whether you have broken it or no and if you have he will condemn thee and cast thee into hell fire and then the poor soul cryes out Oh Lord be mercifull to me this once it shall be a warning to me I will never sin against thee nor displease thee more but will from henceforth walk more humbly and holily and circumspectly before thee and yet all this that thou hast promised if thou wert able to perform it will not avail thee for God will hear none out of Christ and out of the covenant of grace 5. A man out of the covenant of grace he hath no true and speciall title to any of the blessings of God here in this world Gods blessings go along with his covenant and therefore it is very observable that in that chapter where God does promise the blessings of the covenant of grace in that very chapter he promiseth the blessings of this life as you may see in the 36. of Ezek. sayes God there I will powre clean water upon you and you shall be clean yea from all your filthinesses and from all your Idols will I cleanse you a new heart will I also give you and a new spirit will I put within you and will take away the stony heart from you and will give you a heart of flesh and will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and you shall keep my judgements and doe them and you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers and you shall be my people and I will be your God all these are the meroies of the covenant of grace now mark the next words saith God I will call for corn and will incerease it and lay no famine upon you but I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the increase of the field and so in the 10 11 ver of that chap. And I will multiply men upon you and the cities shall be inhabited and the wastes shall be builded and I will multiply upon man and beast and they shall increase and bring fruit and I will do better to you then at your beginnings and ye shall know that I am the Lord Here the Lord entails earthly blessings to the covenant of grace intimating that all that are under the covenant of grace they have a title not only to all spirituall but to temporal blessings likewise but no wicked man out of the covenant of grace hath any true title to any outward blessings they that are of the faithfull are blessed with faithfull Abraham and enjoy outward blessings as a blessing but wicked men it is true they have something allowed them but it it as to prisoners in a prison they have something to keep them alive untill their execution and so wicked men they have prison allowances till the execution day 6. Your misery that are strangers to the covenant of grace lies in this God will not give acceptance to any of your services though you may doe as much for the matter of them as any godly man doth nay thou mayst hear more Sermons and say more prayers and perform more duties then a godly man does and yet not be accepted when the others shall as you may see in Gen. 4. 4 5. Cain and Abel they both of them brought sacrifices to God one of his flock and the other of his grounds and the Apostle speaking of this sayes that by faith Abel offered a more excellent offering then Cain it was not more excellent in regard of the matter of it for in all probability and likelihood Cains sacrifice was of more value then Abels for his was but a few young lambs the firstlings of his flock but Cains was of the first fruits of his ground and yet Abels sacrifice was accepted and the others rejected because Abel was a godly man under the Covenant of Grace by which God did accept of what he did though it were lesse then Cains and so Solomon The sacrifices of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord but the prayer of the upright is his delight a sacrifice you know is a great deal more costly then a prayer for that costs a man nothing but his breath when the other will cost a great deal of money and yet a costly sacrifice is hated by God coming from a wicked man when a pennilesse prayer coming from a godly man is accepted so that under a covenant of grace though you do less for the matter of the duty then wicked men doe

as having thy portion and interest in him and in none else this is an undoubted evidence that you doe belong to the Covenant of Grace 3. For God to be your God it notes Gods soveraignty and power over you for your benefit the Lord will reign over you and subdue corruptions in you and quell your pride and humble your heart and give you a meek and quiet spirit If you finde that God is yours in these three particulars you may comfort your heart in an unquestionable interest in the Covenant of Grace if God be your God and you his people that you have given up and devoted your selves wholly to the service of God in every thing that you doe 2. Another speciall blessing of the covenant of grace is that God hath promised to sanctifie and renew your natures as in Ezek. 36. 26 27. saies God there A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and will take away the stony hearts out of your bosomes and will give you hearts of flesh and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and you shall keep my judgments and do them God will not onely give us life for our happinesse but grace for our holinesse he will not only give us imputed righteousnesse for our justification but also inherent righteousnesse for our sanctification now therefore examine your selves have your natures ever been sanctified and regenerated have you been ever washed with clean water and those stains of sin and corruption wiped away from you hath the beasom of sanctification ever swept your inward man and made it not a cave for every unclean bird to lie in but a habitation fit for the holy Ghost to dwell in if it be so you have a reall right to and interest in the covenant of grace for no man can have the blessings of the covenant but he must have a beeing in the covenant of grace It is very observable that God is not only as the covenant represents him a God gracious and mercifull slow to anger and full of compassion c. but he is a holy God as well as a mercifull God and therefore he will work holinesse in us and expect holinesse from us if ever we expect to have mercy and happinesse from him never lay claim to God nor expect life and happinesse from him as he is a mercifull God unlesse you resolve to be conformable to him as he is a holy God Object But here some may say This is not so great a blessing as you speak of to be sanctified by vertue of the covenant of grace for there are many men that may be sanctified by the covenant of grace and yet never be saved by it and this objection they ground upon that place in Heb. 10. 29. And they shall count the bloud of the covenant wherewith they were sanctified an unholy thing Answ I answer that the sanctification here spoken of is not a true sanctification but onely in profession in the sight of men not in the fight of God it is not a sanctification in very deed and in truth but onely in shew and in the judgement of men 3. Another blessing of the covenant of grace is the forgivenesse of our sins as in Jer. 3. 34. They shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest saith the Lord for I will forgive their iniquity and will remember their sins no more now beloved can you say that God hath pardoned your sins and done away your offences if so then you are under the Covenant of Grace Object But here some poor soul may say Alas I have been a great sinner and have committed offences against God and therefore I fear I have no reall interest in the covenant of grace Answ Be not discouraged for it is the glory of the covenant of grace to pardon great sins it puts a great deal of glory upon God to pardon great sins and passe by great offences as in Amos 5. 12 15. I know sayes God your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins here you see are manifold and mighty sins and yet saies God hate evill and love good it may be the Lord will be gracious to you nay the Lord he will be gracious to you though thou hast manifold and mighty sinnes yet it is not the greatnesse nor mightinesse of them but thy stubbornnesse of heart in not coming in and closing with Jesus Christ that undoes thee 4. Another blessing of the covenant of grace is Gods writing his Law in our hearts that we shall never depart from him as in Jer. 31. 33. I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts I will be their God and they shall be my people that is God will put into our hearts a sutable frame and disposition answerable to every command of God in his Law that we shall be able to obey observe and keep it and say that it is good and then saies God you shall never depart from me now examine your selves hath this effect beene wrought by the spirit of God in your hearts hath God written the Sermons you have heard not in your books but in your hearts if so these are good evidences of your interest in the covenant of grace 2. Another discovery or character of your interest in the covenant of grace is this if you have in you the inseparable concomitances that belong to this covenant of grace there are some things that doe alwayes accompany the covenant of grace as I shall instance in 3 or 4 particulars 1. If you be a man under the covenant of grace in covenant with God then you are disingaged from that league and covenant which you have made and contracted with your lusts whosoever is in covenant with God he hath broken his league with his lusts you cannot be in covenant with Christ till you fall off from your lusts and break off from your sins as in Act. 3. 25 26. sayes the Apostle You are the children of the Prophets and of the covenant which God hath made with our Fathers saying to Abraham even in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed First unto you hath God raised up his Son Jesus Christ and him hee hath sent to blesse you in turning every one of you from your iniquities so that if you are children of the covenant the Lord will turn every one of you from your wicked wayes and therefore you that are not turned from the evill of your courses that have not broken that league you have made with death and hell you can lay no claim to the covenant of grace as in Psal 50. 16. sayes God there to the wicked What hast thou to doe to take my covenant into thy mouth seeing thou hatest to be reformed and castest my words behinde thee thou wilt not forsake thy lusts nor leave thy sins and therefore what

of grace when it is made onely to a few to a peculiar and chosen number of men 12. The Covenant of Works that entitles men to no further honor then to be a worthy and honourable servant of God not a child of God but under the Covenant of Grace we doe not only become servants but adopted sons we are the children of promise by Faith in Christ the Covenant of Grace puts us into a state of Sonship Adam was the son of God by creation but not by grace and adoption till the Covenant of Grace was made 13. Creation was the foundation of the Covenant of Works but it is Redemption that is the foundation of the Covenant of Grace the foundation of this is because Christ hath died for us and shed his bloud for us 14. In the Covenant of Works God did onely manifest the attributes of his greatnesse and power and wisdome and justice but in the covenant of grace hee does demonstrate the attributes of his grace and mercy goodnesse and patience c. God in the covenant of works was only a just God Do this and live so long as thou keepest my Commandments thou shalt live and no longer but in the covenant of grace he is a mercifull God too the Lord did make the attributes of his mercy and goodnesse to shine forth in this covenant should God say to us so long as you doe well it shall be well with you but if even you break one command or commit one sin you shall be damned if God should say thus to us we were in a most miserable and undone condition and could not escape damnation but we being under the covenant of grace by his Son Jesus Christ he tels us that although we doe break his commands and sin against him yet in his Son he will pardon us and passe by all our transgressions as if they had never beene committed SERMON IX EPHES. 2. 12. And strangers to the Covenants of Promise HAving shewn you in 14. particulars your great happiness in being under the covenant of grace from the misery you would have lain under had you been under the covenant of works I come now to the second Use Use 2 which is a Use of dread and terrour to lay before you the great misery of those that are strangers to this covenant of promise and here I might lay before you much astonishing and perplexing matter to all those that are not in the covenant of grace I shall be the larger upon this particular because the last day I spent half an hour about a use of comfort in shewing you your happinesse in being under the covenant of grace and therefore now I shall spend the like time in declaring the misery of all those that are strangers to the covenant which I shall comprise under these six heads 1. This is one part of your misery you are bound to keep the whole Law of God and that in your persons else you can never be saved and oh how impossible is this for any man to do he that is under the covenant of grace God the Father accepts of Christs keeping and fulfilling of the Law for him as if it were done by him in his own person but to such as are not in this covenant of grace God sayes to them if you doe not keep the whole Law and that personally you shall be damned eternally as in Gal. 5. 3. sayes the Apostle there I testifie again ●o every man that is circumcised that he is bound to keep the whole Law if you will not accept of Christ and accept of Salvation by his bloud alone but run to circumcision I tell you saith the Apostle that you are debters to keep the whole Law of God and he will cast you into hell upon the least breach of the Law Oh thou unhappy man upon how hard termes canst thou hope for salvation even upon impossible termes thou canst as well keep the sea in thy fist as keep the whole Law of God in thy own person God sayes to thee if thou dost break but one command though thou should keep all the rest yet thou shalt die and be damned eternally but if you be under the covenant of grace though you break the Law again and again yet Christ doth redeem you from the curse of the Law he being made a curse for you 2. Thou that art a stranger to the covenant of grace thou hast no strength but thy own to help thee in the discharge of all thy duties but now a man that is under the covenant of grace God doth command him a duty and does with the command give him a power to perform the duty God bids him act grace and powers upon him a spirit of Grace he bids him pray and gives him a spirit of prayer God commands him a duty and gives him a flexible willing and an obedient heart and abilities to perform the duty when in Scripture God does command a duty he does likewise promise to assist and enable us to the performance of the duty as for example the Lord bids us to wash us and make us clean and put away the evill of our doings and a poor soul saith Oh Lord I am not able to wash my heart nor cleanse my wayes nor to do any thing that is good of my self and therefore sayes God again I will wash you and make you whiter then snow so God bids us to get new hearts and then again he promiseth to create in us new hearts and renew rights spirits within us I might instance in sundry other particulars but now this is thy unhappinesse oh man that art a stranger to the covenant of grace God bids thee keep his commands but he gives thee no power to fulfill his commands he bids thee act grace and never gives thee a spirit of grace he bids thee pray and yet never powres out upon thee a spirit of prayer and if Adam in his innocency when he was perfect was not able to keep Gods commands how much more unable art thou to doe any thing that may please God thou by thy own strength art as well able to make a world as to make one prayer or perform any duty in a holy and spirituall manner thou canst as well destroy the whole world with thy own hands as subdue any lust by thy own strength but under the covenant of Grace God tels us that though we cannot keep the Law yet he will accept of his Sons keeping it for us and he hath promised to help and assist us in the performance of every thing that he commands us 3. You that are strangers to the covenant of grace herein lies your misery you have no Advocate to plead for you nor Mediator to stand between God and you you have an angry God frowning upon you and a galled conscience ready to accuse you and every thing else in the World against you but no friend either in heaven or in earth to plead

and greater enormities as in 2 Cor. 6. 18. and in the first verse of the next chapter I will be your God and Father and you shall be my sons and daughters saith the Lord God Almighty Having therefore these promises dearly beloved sayes the Apostle let us cleanse our selves from all filthinesse both of flesh and spirit and therefore if you have a care to abstain from all secret sins whereby the inward man is defiled it is a signe that you have a reall interest in God because God will be our God and will own and accept of us to be his people we must not onely wash our legs and our outward man but our inward parts too and if we do thus we may be confidently assured that we are a sacrifice well pleasing and acceptable unto God through Jesus Christ but now you that make conscience of your wayes so far only as that men may not say black to your eye if you doe not labour to keep your inward man from defilements as well as your outward man you have no interest in God at all 2. Another evidence of your interest in God is this if you have an earnest and unwearied labour and endeavour in your spirits to come to the nearest resemblance and conformity to Jesus Christ as possibly you can Doe you labour to be holy as hee was holy and humble and meeke and lowly as hee was in 2 Cor. 7. 1. sayes the Apostle there dearly beloved let us cleanse our selves from all filthinesse both of flesh and spirit perfecting holinesse in the fear of God Doe you labour still to resemble God in holinesse thy relation and interest in God will make thee labour to be like unto God and to be still perfecting holinesse though you cannot be perfect in holinesse If you have an interest in God you will labour more and more to be holy as he is holy and to come to the nearest resemblance to him that may be 3. Another discovery of your interest in God is this if God hath engraven upon thy soul those saving effects and blessings which he doth bestow upon all those that have an interest in him God hath promised that he will be their God and they shall be his people that he will give them a new heart taking away the heart of stone and giving them a heart of flesh and that he will sanctifie and renew their natures and write his Law in their inward parts and work in their hearts a sutable disposition to his Law and put his fear into their hearts that they shall never depart from him These are the blessings of the Covenant of Grace Now you that can give abundant and evident testimonies in your own souls that you have found God cleansing and purifying your hearts and sanctifying and renewing your natures and writing his Law in your inward parts and putting his fear into your hearts that you doe never depart from him if you finde these things in you they are undoubted evidences that you have an interest in God 2. As I would have you prove your interest in God so I would exhort you to improve your interest in God too Many of you do let God lye by you as I may so say and never make use of him for your spirituall comfort and support and never goe to him for help and succour and relief in times of danger you doe not improve your interest in God Object But here it may be you would ask mee how you should improve your interest in God Answ 1 I answer 1. Improve it thus in making your interest in God a great incentment and provocation to thee to obey God thus David did in Psal 143. 10. Teach me to doe thy will sayes he for thou art the Lord my God here David did well improve his interest in God so in Psal 119. 115. Depart from me ye evill doers sayes he for I will keep the commandements of my God We should make our interest in God an ingagement upon our souls to keep the commands of God 2. Then you doe rightly improve your interest in God when this doth stir you up to aggravate all the sins you have committed against God when your interest in God doth make you see how exceeding sinfull sin is and how greatly you have provoked the Lord your God by your sins as in Jer. 3. 25. We have sinned against the Lord our God we and our Fathers from our youth even to this day and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God here the children of Israel aggravate their sins against God as their God And so Daniel he makes his interest in God a motive to stir him up to aggravate sin against God in Dan. 9. 5. sayes he there We have sinned and have committed iniquity and done wickedly and have rebelled even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgements and then in vers 7. Oh Lord sayes he righteousnesse belongeth unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day so again in vers 8. Oh Lord to us belongeth confusion of face to our Kings and to our Princes and to our Fathers because we have sinned against thee but to the Lord our God belongeth mercy and forgivenesse though wee have rebelled against him and so hee goes on all along aggravating their sins against God no lesse then ten times he mentions their interest in God and ten times he aggravates their sinnes against God It is the consideration of our interest in God that does stir us up to aggravate our sins against God when we doe consider that we have sinned against our God against our gracious and mercifull Father who hath loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace who is infinite in goodness and abundant in mercy and truth Such considerations as these will exceedingly provoke us to aggravate our sins against him 3. Improve your interest in God by making it a prop and pillar of marble to bear up and support your hearts under all the miseries and afflictions and troubles you meet withall here in the World thus David incouraged himself in the Lord his God in Psal 3. 7. I am thine sayes hee Lord save me then you make a right improvement of your interest in God when you go to him and trust and rely and depend upon him in all times of danger and distresse for you have an interest in that God that is both able and willing to relieve and succour you a God that hath helped you and doth help you and will never leave you nor forsake you and therefore be incouraged to cast your care upon him FINIS THE SAINTS TRIUMPH OVER DEATH OR A SERMON Preached at the Funerall OF Mr. CHRISTOPHER LOVE IN Lawrence-Church August 25. 1651. By THOMAS MANTON Minister of the Gospell at Stoak-Newington near London London Printed by E. Cotes for George Eversden at the Golden-ball in Aldersgate-street 1652. THE SAINTS TRIUMPH OVER DEATH OR A