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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

dark these dark ways are thorny and these thorny ways enclosed and so exactly is it with the ways of sin First Because First The wilderness is great The coming out of the wilderness is d●fficult and desperate because of the greatness and immensity of the wilderness were the wilderness never so thick and thorny if it were but small and little in space one might the better make his way out of it as in our woods and groves but that which renders the wilderness so terrible is because it is so great This is that taken notice of Deut. 1.19 We went through all that great and terrible wilderness and Deut. 8.15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness The wilderness is great in length and great in breadth and therefore when one is in the wilderness he may go forward and yet be in the wilderness to the right hand and yet be in the wilderness to the left hand and yet be in the wilderness to the east west north south backwards and forwards whither soever he turn all is wilderness and thus it is with sin Sin is wider greater and m●re terrible by far then the wilderness Wide and broad is the way that leads to destruction Matth. 7.13 therefore saith our Savior so few finde the way out of it Would you know the extent of this wilderness 't is in a word as wide as the world the whole world is a wilderness of sin East West Europe Asia c. Ireland England City Countrey if a man could leave sin behinde him in any place and not finde a new part of the wilderness whither ever he goes he might have some hope of getting out of it but Caelum non animum mutant they carry this wilderness with them where-ever they go yea they finde it where-ever they come and how should they then get out of it 1 John 5.19 The whole world lies in wickedness Is not this a great wilderness yea but sin is yet a greater wilderness 't is as large as the heart of man which is much larger then the world Gen. 5.6 All the imaginations of the heart of man are onely evil continually he thinks of this and sins of that and sins and where-ever his heart turns it turns but like a man in the wilderness from one part of it to another he goes forward and yet sins Isa 30.1 They adde sin to sin as those that adde drunkenness to thirst They go backward and yet sin tracing over their former wandrings and are as a dog returning to his vomit and a fool to his folly Prov. 26.11 They go to the left hand and grow covetous and to sin they were prophane they grow hypocritical and so both on the right hand and left turn off from the way of God Isa 30.21 so that as one in the wilderness having gone far and some they say having gone forty days journey in the Hercynian Forest have yet come unto no end hath yet room enough to wander still and to go on yet again so men having been sinners and in this wilderness forty yea threescore years have yet new parts of the wilderness to wander in new discoveries of sin to make still and say of every morning as he Prov. 23.35 When I awake I will seek it yet again 1. The wil●erness full of various ways Secondly The wilderness is so full of divers paths that its hard to finde the way out of it There 's the way to the Lions den and the way to the Leopards mountains Cant. 4.8 there 's the way to the habitation of Dragons Isa 55.7 and there be many other deadly tracts in the wilderness though not a living way amongst them all thus is it with sin also There 's the way of the fool Prov. 12.15 and the way of transgressors Prov. 13.15 and the way of the wicked Prov. 12.26 and the way of the slothful Prov. 15.19 and the way of a man with a maid Prov. 30.19 and the way of an adulterous woman Prov. 30.20 and the way of Balaam who loved the wages of unrighteousness 2. Pet. 2.15 and many more such ways and if all these ways with the rest of the paths of sin be not enough to make a wilderness judge ye This is that then that makes the coming out of sin so exceeding difficult the exceeding diversity of ways that are in sin A man you say may change his path and yet keep the way a man may much more change his way and yet keep the wilderness Thus many are converted not from sin to God but from one sin to another and many think they have left their sins when they have onely changed their sins 'T is the diversity of lusts that deceives souls Tit. 3.3 'T is the diversity of lusts that leads away silly souls 2 Tim. 3.6 In these our days what are many that thinks themselves Converts and Saints now and count that themselves were sinners before but turned from the lusts of the flesh to the lusts of the minde for there is such variety spoken of Eph. 2.3 that turn from licentious practices to licentious principles thus doth Satan turn men from carnal conversation to carnal profession and this is the policy of the harlot sin least thou shouldst ponder the path of life that path is but one her ways are moveable that thou canst not know them Prov. 5.6 The sinner when he is weary of one path hath another way to recreate himself in from the Ale-house to the Game-house and from the Game-house to the Whore-house from gross ignorance to gross superstition from gross prophaneness to gross formality and from gross formality to gross presumption thus hath he many ways to satisfie his hearts lust with that he may enjoy his fill of sin yea and if he love to wander in this wilderness he shall have his fill of the wilderness before he get out of it The backslider in heart shall be fill'd with his own ways Prov. 14.14 Thirdly Though there be so many ways 3. The wilderness ways are entangled and perplexed yet this is not all but these ways are all of them perplexed Many ways meet together and cross one another and you by them are put into such a confusion as that you know not indeed which is which Exodus 14.3 Pharaoh will say they are intangled in the wilderness It seems the wilderness is an intanglement to our ways and is it not so with sin These are called as we hinted at first 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the bewildrings it signifies the intricate windings and turnings of Satan we reade it the wiles of Satan not impertinently Eph. 6.11 as a wily man that moves backwards and forwards to and again hither and thither and you say you know not what to make of him Thus doth sin hurry the soul sometimes forward sometimes backward sometimes it turns the soul round and yet brings it where it was at first so that the soul is quite bewildred thinks it should know

thee look about all things Father Mother Wife Children Lands Houses Life and Leave Forsake Hate them all and then thou shalt be a Disciple unto Gospel-obedience Is not this every whit as much as go up to Mount Nebo and dye there surely he never yet found this way that hath not found it to be an up-hil way 4. Of Gospell converse in spiritual duties Fourthly The way of Gospel-Communion or Converse with God with Christ with Saints in the Spirit in an Ordinance My Brethren is not this an up-hil way Is it not this that makes your hearts sweat againe to get up or keep up your Spirits duly in this way Our Saviour went up into a Mountaine to pray and unlesse thou canst come up into the Mountaine thou wilt very hardly come to pray The Spouse looked for Christ in the high-wayes that is as I said before the Ordinances but she had not looked yet high enough for to find him Cant. 7.5 The King is held in the Galleries If thou be as the Spouse Cant. 2.14 In the secret places of the stayrs I am come to meet thee this day to tell thee that the King is above in the Galleries his voyce then to thee is this Come up hither for I saith Christ do not use to come down lower the King is held in the Galleries that is If you be in the Spirit whilst you are in the Ordinances you shal find Christ and not unlesse you be under spiritual Communion Christ wil not shew himselfe lower the Hebrew word bears thus much the King is bound in the Galleries Christ hath bound himselfe by promise to be found in spirituality of duty and hath as it were bound himself that he will not be found lower not in formality I judge it may refer hither that we read of the Mountains of Prayer the Mountaine of Holiness the Mountaine of Praise typing that the way of Gospel-Communion is an Up-hil way Secondly If you consider the terms of the motion 2. By cons●deration of the terms of the motion of the soule that comes from the wildernesse of sinne to grace the term from which the term to which First The term from which is the Wildernesse 1. The terme from which is so low and it it is so low a scituation that you cannot possibly come out of it but you must come up out of it Paradice was a lofty state and as it were a lower Heaven but in the day that Adam was cast out of it he went to inhabite so low a soyle sinne I meane that it is said of it Prov. 5.5 Its steps take hold of Hell If the sinner were but one step lower he would be in Hell Nay what if I should say that the wilderness of sinne is in a sort as low as Hell nay in a sort an Hell Psal 86.13 Thou hast delivered my soule from the lowest Hell Sinne is an hell but I can't say it is the lowest Hell the lowest hell is the second death If thou be in the state of sinne thou art in Hell already understand it soberly He that beleeves not is condemned already Joh. 3.18 Damned already onely the Grave-stone is not yet rowled unto the mouth of this Grave the gulfe is not yet fixed the way is yet open and poor soules may come out by beleeving Secondly The term unto which soules move 2. The terme unto which it is so high when they come from the Wildernesse of sinne speakes it to be an up-hil way You have heard of an higher and lower hell and you may hear of an higher and lower Heaven As sinne is the upper Hell so grace is the lower Heaven Phil. 3.20 Our conversation is in heaven Pauls and the converted Philippians conversations were in heaven that was in the lower Heaven Memorable is that passage Heb. 10.22 23. Ye that is living Saints are come unto Mount Sion and unto the City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels to the generall assembly and Church of the first born which are written in heaven and to God the judge of all and the spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus c. If this way that shall lead hitherto be not up the hil judge ye 3. By consideration of this eminent circumstance in the motion viz. If your foot slip you doe not get nearer to grace by it but more back again into the wildernesse Thirdly If you consider but the remarkable Circumstances of the motion as this now Would you know whether or no the way out of the Wildernesse be an Up-hil way observe when thy foot slips whether thou gettest nearer grace or nearer sin by that slip If thou get nearer sinne as thou dost undoubtedly then sinne undoubtedly is the down-hil way for we slip not up the hill but down we fall not upward but down-ward Now this Circumstance is clear in scripture in experience and where not and it is convictive hereof viz. That the way from the Wildernesse of sinne is up-hil for upon any slip our soules slip to sinne so that the Lord instantly cryes out Returne ô backslyding Children c. Jer. 3.22 c. All the wayes of sinne are backslyding wayes therefore they are down-hil wayes and therefore the way from the Wildernesse is to come up Thus much for proof and surely of this mind was Solomon when he said that The way of life is above to the wise that he may depart from hell beneath Prov. 15.24 Whether you respect the hell of sin or of suffering for sinne which are both beneath but the way of life whether of holinesse or happinesse is above to the wise that is an Up-hil way Use 1. Challenge 1. That takes no pains yet thinks to come out of the wilderness From hence a word of Challenge a word of Caution and a word of Exhortation 1. Hence let me challenge soules Sirs how is it that you dare hope of comming at length out of the Wildernesse when you take no paines to walke in the up-hil way surely to let repentance and faith and obedience and the duties of holinesse alone is to resolve to dwell in the Wildernesse yet still for that is the valley of the shadow of death and these are the Up-hil wayes Come up come up from the wilderness you idle hearts that love to walke onely in the way of the plaines Oh! but say you I have tryed to come out but I have made no progresse I can easily go in farther and farther but why can I not as easily go out no wonder at all going in to it is down-hil comming out of it is up-hil therefore never think of coming out of it unless thou take as much nay more paines to get out of sinne then ever thou didst in sinne And by the way 2. That take paines to goe farther into it let me further challenge poor wretches of very madnesse that in stead of taking paines to come up from