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A95609	A Scripture-map of the wildernesse of sin, and vvay to Canaan. Or The sinners way to the saints rest. Wherein the close bewildring sleights of sin, wiles of the Devill, and windings of the heart, as also the various bewildrings of lost sinners, yea, even of saints, before, in, and after conversion; the necessity of leaning upon Christ alone for salvation, with directions therein: as also, the evident and eminent danger of false guides, false wayes, false leaning-stocks, are plainly, and practically discovered. Being the summe of LXIV lecture sermons preached at Sudbury in Suffolk, on Cantic. 8.5. / By Faithful Teate, M.A. minister of the Gospel.	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1655 (1655)	Wing T615; Thomason E839_1; ESTC R203761	372,945	489

were under a curse from the Lord even a wilderness-curse as it was a wilderness sin and the Prophet turned back and looked on them and cursed them in the name of the Lord and two she-Bears out of the forest came and devoured forty and two children and perhaps though I would gladly be charitable that the Bears no sooner rent a sunder their little carkases then the roaring Lyon seized upon their souls Children take heed of cursing and lying and mis-calling and mocking and stealing and playing at prayers c. If you would keep out of the way of the Bear keep away from the side of the forest meddle not with sin Let this affect the hearts of parents say not of your children as Paul of himself 1 Cor. 13.11 When I was as a childe I spake and understood and did as a childe but when I became a man I put away childish things from me What do you talk say you 't is but a childe and afterward it will it self as Paul did lay aside and forget these childish sins Truly Friends 't is well when it is so but 't is not well for you to trust to this that it will be so Vse To parents to teach the way You 'l ask me then What should you do Why first Are thou not bound to do as much for a childe or an Apprentice of thine own as thou art for an ox or an ass of thy neighbors Art thou not bound to do as much for a childe of thy friends committed to thee or thine own childe as for an ox or an ass of thine enemies Exod. 23.4 If thou meet thine enemies ox or his ass going astray thou shalt surely a strait in junction bring it back again and wilt thou let thy childe go astray and not set that into the way but leave it lost and bewildred still O the vanity of that phansie of late growth that children must not be taught the ways of God because not able to understand them and tell me what old one is able without teaching Was not Nicodemus a Doctor as simple as a childe c. Did he not propound as childish questions as to the mysteries of the Gospel John 3.4 nay doth not God make old ones babes and to become as little children before he reveal to them the mysteries of the kingdom Matth. 11.25 We despise not the broken language of our little ones nor doth Christ the Hosanna's that were sung by the little children But if we could say nothing God hath commanded and who dares pretend to a counter-wisdom Prov. 22.6 Train up a childe in the way wherein he shall go or should go mark the words In the way that imports if it be not there 't wil be in the wilderness in the way wherein he should go or shall go when he is old though he be not so prompt at it whilst he is a childe Yea but saist thou I teach but he will not learn I point him the way but he will not learn in it In such a case what dost thou do with the ox or the ass that thou findest astray and when thou bring●● it into the way will ever and a non be running out again Therefore secondly Hast thou not a rod in thine hand 2. If they will go out or not keep in to whip them into the way if it will not come out of the wilderness by calls or perswasions whip it out if it will not keep in the way which thou leadest it into whip it in You think it is better to whip your beast and so to bring it home then that it should miss those blows but be lost still And will you suffer the soul of a childe to be lost for not gathering or for not using a rod Prov. 23.13 14. Thou shalt not withhold correction but beat him with the rod and deliver his soul from death and hell Though folly be bound in its heart and it be by that folly in the wilderness shall not the rod of correction fetch it out Prov. 22.15 Fourthly Pass we on to yong men and maidens 4. Yong men maidens in the wildernes they also if unregenerate are bewildred I desire to speak affectionately to you wishing you well in the Lord as being yong my self and exposed unto your temptations know my friends that as the shoo-maker hath another last in his shop of another size so Satan hath another part in the wilderness for your growing foot There 's a road in the wilderness and a broad one too call'd by the name of the yong mans way Eccl. 11.9 Rejoyce O yong man and walk in the ways of thine heart ways there are fitted to the youthful heart when childish ways are turnd aside from flee saith the Apostle youthful lusts 2 Tim. 2.22 lusts fitted unto youthful feet long hair and fine locks and naked bosoms and fair-meetings and drinking and dancing and wantonness and chambrings such are ways of the yong men and maidens wilderness and you shall see them beaten to purpose on a Town-fair-day yea there are ways on purpose in fashion for some foolish ones such as ranting for Sophistets and clubbing for journey-men shoo-makers c. and they are not good Artists unless they can lose themselves in these fashionable pathes Therefore what pains takes the wise man to keep yong ones right in the way Prov. 5.7 Hearken O children remove thy way far from her ver 8. and he presseth it hard home from two Arguments The first If thou go on saith he but a little further thou wilt get into the midst of the wilderness for saith he I my self following the ways of my youth was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly ver 14. this is sad in the midst of a congregation and yet in the midst of the wilderness still in view of men yea perhaps in the midst of a Sermon and yet thine heart will be in the midst of the wilderness of sin so sadly will sins of youth bewilder you Then secondly saith he If you keep not your way you 'l meet with the Leopard and Lion c. ere it be long therefore saith he Keep thy ways far from her lest thou give thy years to the cruel ver 9. If you have a minde to have your years cut off then get you into the wilderness there are beasts enough and sufficiently cruel to devour you Say not you are yong and have strength and shall out-wear for Prov. 7.24 Hearken O ye children ver 25. go not astray many have been cast down wounded and many strong men have been slain there ver 26. It may be you l say you feel no harm and it may be so to Many are shot that feel it not till their blood be cold and Prov. 7.23 A dart strikes through the yong mans liver and yet he knows not it was for his life Youth is the heat of blood and though you feel not the wound in this heat

of blood yet at length sin shall sting like an adder and bite like a serpent of the wilderness Prov. 23.32 Vse To yong ones Now to come up from the the wildernes Hearken then you yong ones unto me and I will shew you an excellent way Youth I know is of all ages and states most desirous and indeed most free for travel but it pities me to think that so much gallant youth and the strength thereof should be spent in wandring up and down in the worthless wilderness of sin Encouragement 1. The fitness of youthful time for that travel rather if you will be traveling remember Canaan Oh! what a time is the strength of your youth to make out your way from the wilderness of sin Thou hast some strength to rush through the thickets more then an old man hath and if thou lose a little of thy flesh in breaking through the thorns thou art yong and thy flesh will come again if thou lose by repentance as to carnal respects there 's time enough before thee to have amends made thee I observe as the yong ones were those of the Israelites that got through the wilderness unto Canaan Numb 26.64 so at this day those that are converted are converted yong ten to one of those that live to be old and yet come to be new born If old men will have their old ways still and scorn to learn a new lesson being old yea if their joints be stiff and their knees feeble that they cannot travel yet let us yong men get up and be going and the Lord be with us This day the Lord calls you yong ones from the Lions de● and Leopards mountains if you refuse this call to day you will mourn at the last when your strength is consumed and say How have I hated instruction and mine heart despised reproof Prov. 7.11 12. Take a tree from the wilderness when its young set it in your Garden keep it and water it c. and little fear of its death but take an old tree from the wilderness and transplant it in your Orchard and do what you will there is little hope of the life of it if there be 't will cost much ado much weeping to water it c. hear David crying Psalm 25 6 7. Remember thy tender mercies remember not the sins of my youth nor my transgressions If thou have only thy youth transgressions or bewildrings to reckon for it will be work enough for thee though thou have thy youth strength to do the work in Secondly As this is the fittest time for thee 2. The acceptableness of youth herein unto God so is it the most welcome time to God young ones if you did but know how kindly the Lord would take it to see you come up from the wilderness such youthfull Spouses leaning upon the Beloved it would ravish your hearts within you I le give you a tast for God hath bidden me go and cry in your ears saying Thus saith the Lord I remember the kindness of thy youth the love of thine Espousals when thou wentest after me in the wilderness in a Land that was not sown Jer. 2.2 Oh Christ the Shepheard is come into the Wilderness to seek and to save that which is lost Oh if thou wilt in thy youth be so kind as to follow him till thou shall come to Canaan God will never forget this love of thine espousals say not that thou art too young to marry Christ the younger thou art the better Christ will like thee CHAP. III. A fifth particular to wit that mans estate is a bewildred estate the world is a wilderness proved generally proved particularly the first particular poverty a wilderness opened and applyed Fifthly Mans estate a bewild red estate FIfthly Men and women as soon as they enter upon the world as we say that is upon the heart of the world they enter upon the heart of the Wilderness The world is a Wilderness to the unregenerate for here grow those Thorns that choak the word of God The world is a wilderness here are the thorns Mat. 13.22 He that hath the word choaked by the Cares of this world is said to receive it among thorns When the Word meets with a worldly heart it is like good seed sown in a thorny wilderness Worldlings you that hear me this day I appeal to your consciences if it be not so In comes a note or an observation an advice or a conviction and up start the thorny worldly thoughts that are within thee even whilst thou art within the reach of the word and choak that good seed Here are the the entangling waies that it brings not forth Again The world is a wilderness to the unregenerate for here are those crooked and foul waies that are the entanglements of the poor soul the Apostle 2 Pet. 2.20 mentioning the pollutions of the world saith They are entangled therein and overcome The world is a thorny thicket and entangling wilderness to the unconverted My friends were it only your Babes and children They that enter upon the world enter the very midst of the wilderness and youth that were bewildred it were less to be feared you might hope that when they came to have experience of and to understand the waies of the world they might come to understand their own waies or at least if you were not your selves lost you might set them into the way But let me tell you what ever you think or speak of Men of the world know not what way they wal in or unto any man Oh say you I know well enough what I do and about what I go and what way I am in there is not an unregenerate heart amongst you but is so far bewildred as not to know the way that thy soul is in Prov. 20.4 Mans goings are of the Lord how then can a man understand his own way He that is a stranger from Gods waies is altogether ignorant of his own waies nay how can he understand them Mans goings are known of the Lord The interpretation of this Scripture may be according to Prov. 5.21 Mans waies are before the Lords eyes and he pondereth all his wayes T is Gods prerogative to understand not only his own waies but thy waies as it is the Saints prerogative that know God not only to understand their waies but Gods waies but it is thy misery neither to know Gods waies nor thine own Prov. 12.26 The way of the wicked seduceth him Seduceth that is his very way leads him out of his Way It seems a right way unto him but the end thereof are waies of death Prov. 14.12 The end of his way he thinks is thriving and riches and a comfortable life this thinks he will be the end of his grinding the faces of the poor and cheating the rich and this he thinks is a right way he may lawfully buy as cheap and sell as dear as he can But the end

Christ followes not the vaine custom of other lovers Their discourse is Complement vain flattering many times lying Complements Christs wooing discourse is heart-discovering down-right Conviction They that heard Josephs rough speech to his Brethren at their first comming whereof they complaine to their Father Gen. 42.30 The man that is Ruler of the Land spake roughly to us would little have expected that ever Ioseph would have proved such a tender Brother to them afterwards And they that heare how coursely as flesh and blood thinke Christs wooings are worded at the first know not how to believe that Christ will make such a tender Husband afterward His first Complements are no other then such as these Soul thou art and hast been as an arrant whore all the days of thy life hitherto there 's not a place nor a time that thou canst thinks of wherein thou hast not gone a whoring from me therefore now return unto me and I will marry thee You have a large story of Christs wooing-language Ier. 3. And how begins he verse 1. Thou hast played the Harlot with many lovers And verse 2. Lift up thine eyes and see where thou hast not been lain with Course Complementing you 'l say but is this woing language Why read but the Chapter and see your selves this is the upshot verse 14. Turn O back-slyding Children for I am married unto you Nor the particular terms of it such as these Thus of his language in general and as to any particular terms of Christs woing discourse they are altogether irksome and ungrateful unto flesh and blood for they are such as these 1. You must forsake all your old friends First Saith Christ If you will marry me you must forsake and forgo all your old friends kindred and acquaintance you must come at home no more Oh! saith flesh and blood who would marry an Husband to be thus tyed in yet is this Christs expresse term Psal 45.10 Hearken O daughter and consider encline thine are and forget thine own people and thine own fathers house why where didst thou learne this wanton word or that garb or that superstition or this vanity saith Christ to the soule Why in my Fathers house I had it from the Cradle what hurt is in it I am sure my Father before me used them and all my Fathers house yet you must forsake it saith Christ or forsake me Nay if I must be so strickt and tyed up even farewell Christ will most of the world say and yet Christ himselfe persists and tells you that she that in this case hates not Father and Mother and Brother and Sister c. cannot be his Disciple Luk. 14.26 2ly You must expect many a sad day 2ly saith Christ If you will marry me you must reckon to have many a sad and sorrowfull day I must be often from home and out of sight and then must the Children of the bride Chamber mourn Therefore when the world shall rejoyce Verily then shall you mourn and lament and be sorrowful yea as the travaile of a woman when her hour is come Verily verily saith Christ it shall be so Jo. 16.20 21. Yea soul though thou be as David yet must thou water thy Couch with thy tears though thou be as Peter yet shalt thou have seasons of bitter weeping yea though thou be as the Spouse even as a seal on Christs arme his love his dove his undefiled one yet must thou be as a Dove in the clefts of the Rock mourning and in the secret places of the staires Cant. 3.14 3ly You must never look for an idle day but be alwaies carrying his yoke and burthen 3ly If you will marry me saith Christ never think to have an idle time of it never look to have a loytering life on 't Assure your selfe I marry you to work and not to play You must take my yoak and my burther Mat 11.28 And you must bid farewell to all your play-dayes in your Marriage-day and never looke for one idle day more Luk. 9.23 If any will come after me let him take up his Cross daily Marke daily and come and follow me Nay then saith the world let who will have Christ if he tell us so before he be sure to us what will he say afterward 4ly If you will marry me saith Christ 4ly You must disowne your own will you must resolve to lay down your own will You must rule your selves no longer for I will be your Lord and worship you me Psal 45.11 And that not onely in what pleaseth you but also in what crosseth your humour and thwarteth your Will Not a lock not a look not a lust nothing more then what I will give way to Luk. 9.23 If any come after me he must deny himself Nay then saith the pride and stubbornnesse of carnall hearts Marry Christ who will we will not have this man to rule over us 5ly If you will marry me saith Christ 5ly You must part with any thing your very limbs at his command You must be so much mine and so little your own that if I call for an hand or an eye or a foot you must part with it yea though it be a right hand or a right eye Mat. 5.29 30. A custom a course a fashion a fancy a lust a sin seeme it never so sweet pleasing profitable useful yet away it must bee thrown though it sit never so close and neare if I and it cannot keepe house together And thus he that forsaketh not all that he hath cannot be my Disciple Yea and if he do not hate his own life also Luk. 14.26 33. Nay now flesh and blood will stop their ears This is indeed saith Nature an hard sayi●g and who can hear it yet must you both hear and hearken to it or else there 's no talke of a match with Jesus Christ 4ly 4ly Few like Christs woing carryages Carnall hearts are yet more prejudiced at the woing carriages of Jesus Christ You never heard of another that useth so to woe Christ doth not onely speake hard words but withall strikes as hard blowes and indeed you shall find him but a word and a blow when that he takes the first acquaintance of any heart by way of woing He takes one soule out of one wildernesse viz. The wilderness of sin and allures it into another viz. The wilderness of affliction in spirit and there he seemes both to leave it and lose it before ever he speake comfortably to it Hos 2.14 Another soule he takes and binds fast under the spirit of bondage Rom. 8.15 as Joseph bound Simeon before the eyes of his Brethren Gen. 43.24 Another he takes and beats it blind and throwes it downe to the Earth and keeps it both without meat and drink c. and that many dayes together as he did Saul Act. 9.4 c. Others he takes and wounds them as the Keepers of the wall did the Spouse Cant 5.7 and pierceth them