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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67808	Crooked pathes made straight: or, The wayes of God made knowne to lost sinners, or bewildered saints Wherein is represented the severall conditions of a Christian in the spirit, as hee growes up out of weaknesse into strength, through death into life eternall. By Anne Yemans.	Yemans, Anne.	1648 (1648)	Wing Y30A; ESTC R222187	125,255	256

many places of Scripture yet none of them kept them out of the Land of Canaan which was a type of heaven but only unbelief And this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darkenesse rather then light John 3.19 Christ hath obtained of his Father a full pardon for all the sins of the world and a perfect righteousnesse and heaven and spirituall and temporall things and it is kept in store for us in Christ all the spirituall things are till wee doe really believe what Jesus Chri●● hath done for us in particular and he woul● have his love made knowne to the world tha● they might believe and then hee will mak● known to them that their sins are pardoned and how great his love is to them and wh●● hee hath purchased for them and what the● are in him And although there remaines s●● in the conversation yet sin in the conscien●● is done away The blood of Christ which throug● the eternall spirit offered himselfe without spo●● purge your consciences from dead workes to ser●● the living God Heb. 9.14 And he speaking i● the 9th verse of this chapter and verse 2. of th● 10th chapter of the sacrifices in the time of th● Law there was offered gifts and sacrifices tha● could not make holy concerning the conscience of him that did the service for if it could would they not then have ceased to have bee● offered because that that the offerers onc● purged should have had no more sine in thei● conscience but those sacrifices could not take away sin in the conscience Heb. 9.24 25 26. For Christ is not entered into the holy places ma●● with hands which are the figures of the true bu● into heaven itselfe now to appeare in the prese●● of God for us Nor yet that he should offer himself● often as the high Priest entereth into the holy pl●●● every yeare with blood of others For then must often have suffered since the foundation of the world but now once in the end of the world hath be appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himselfe And it is he alone that can and will sanctifie us in our conversation Let us draw neer with a true heart in assurance of faith sprinkled in our hearts from an evill conscience and washed in our bodies with pure water Heb. 10.22 Christ shed both water and blood John 19. ●4 His blood for to sprinkle our conscience from evill works that so they shall not damn us and water to purge and sanctifie us in our conversation that sin shall be mortified in us and we shall walke in obedience to God And this Christ hath done for all and would have all know it that they all might come to Christ and be saved For be tasted death for-every man Heb. 2.9 And be dyed for all that they that live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him that dyed for them and rose again 2 Gor. 5.15 Christ not only dyed and was buried but hee also rose from the dead which doth declare unto us that hee hath gotten the victory over the spirituall death for us he triumphed over it for us Death is swallowed up in victory O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Chris● 2 Cor. 15.54 55 56 57. So Christ hath done all things for thee an● hath made way for to goe to God by him J●sus said I am the way the truth and the life ●man commeth to the Father but by me John 1● 6. And now he makes a generall proclamat●on for all to come unto him and he will gi●● them life for their life is hid in him and they doe not come unto him they shall dye● their sins and the Lord saith As I live I wi●● not the death of a sinner Isa 55.1 2 3. Ho ev●●● one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and 〈◊〉 that hath no money come ye buy and eat yea com● buy wine and milke without money and with●●● price Wherefore doe ye spend money for that whi●● is not bread and your labour for that which sati●fieth not hearken diligently unto me and ea●● ye that which is good and let your soule delight selfe in fatnesse Encline your eare and come un●me heare and your soule shall live and I wi●● make aneverlasting Covenant with you even t●● sure mercies of David The waters that we are invited to come 〈◊〉 to is Christ he is the water of life John 4 1● And he calls all to come without any worth nesse of their owne though they are never 〈◊〉 great sinners let them come let them not ke●● back because they are great sinners but ther●fore let them come for he dyed for their sins ●nd if they come unto him he will give them a ●ardon for their sins their sinnes cannot be too great for him to pardon and doe not stay for ●ualification to come to Christ for there is ●o qualification out of Christ but come unto him and he will qualifie thee there is no vessel so unclean but the blood of Christ wil cleanse ●t And saith Christ Those that come to me I will ●●n no wise cast away and that wine and milk is Christ John 15.1 I am the Vine that brought forth those grapes that this wine came of and he was pressed in the wine-pres of the wrath of God for us to drinke of the fruit of it And as it is the nature of wine to comfort strengthen and refresh those that are ready to faint So it is with this spirituall wine Christ whosoever hath tasted of him it comforts him exceedingly and when they are ready to faint through the sence of their sins this wine refreshes them and strengthens them against the Devils temptations and their owne sins and this milke is to feede those that are babes in Christ I have fed you with milke and not with meate for bitherto ye were not able to beare it 1 Cor. 3.2 For every one that useth milke is unskilfull in the word of righteousnesse for he is a babe Heb. 5.13 So Christ is this milke that feeds those that are babes in him he is their nourishment and hee revealeth his love to them by degrees and 〈◊〉 are babes at the first and grow by degrees be men in Christ and hee leades them acco●ding Wherefore doe ye spend money for that whi●● is not bread you spend a great deale of cost paines to get a righteousnesse of your own a●● so feede upon that but that is not bread th●● is but ashes that will not nourish thee b●● wildo thee more harm than good Christ sait● He is the bread of life John 6.48 This is 〈◊〉 bread which came downe from heaven that a m●● may eate of it and not dye I am the living bre●● which came downe from heaven if any man

and we come to beleeve this 〈◊〉 the faith of Christ this faith is the eye to 〈◊〉 what Christ hath done for us so through th● faith we are justified by Christ and this is th● free gift of God and is not any thing of o●● selves our faith is imperfect and therefore 〈◊〉 cannot justifie us I beleeve Lord help my un●●liefe So that our faith cannot justifie us b●cause there is unbeliefe in it Lord help my 〈◊〉 beliefe but the faith of Christ is perfect a● that alone doth justifie every one that hath● and without this faith it is impossible to ple●● God Heb. 11.6 and every thing which is 〈◊〉 of this faith is sinne and Christ is the autho●● and finisher of this faith Heb. 12.2 And all long the 11. chapter of the Hebrewes the speakes what great things were done by t●● faith and the Lord calls and invites all men come to him and eat freely of this spirito● feast that he hath prepared for them he 〈◊〉 vites them by the outward preaching of 〈◊〉 word and inward movings of his Spirit P●● 1.20 21 22 23. Wisdome crieth without uttereth her voyce in the streets she crieth the chiefe place of concourse in the openi● of the gates in the citie she uttereth her words saying How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity and the scorners delight in their scorning and fooles hate knowledge turne you at my reproofe behold I will poure our my Spirit unto you I will make known my words unto you Here is the outward call and in Genesis 6.3 there is the inward And the Lord said My Spirit shall not always strive with man So it doth appeare that his Spirit doth strive with man to bring him to himself Iohn 12.32 And I if I be lifted up from the earth will draw all men unto me Hosea 11.4 I drew them with cords of a man with bands of love and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jawes and I laid meat unto them Thus ●hrist drawes all both inward and outward with the bonds of love that he might take off that heavy yoke off their sinnes off them and see them laid upon Christ and see this spirituall meat which is laid before them and they to feed on it and doe appeale to every ones conscience whether they doe not find at one time or other an inward moving by the Spirit of God for to goe unto God and the Lord will receive them and they have some glimpse of the love of God to them to invite them to goe and there is nothing can move us to go to God but the Spirit of God therefore it is the Spirit of God that doth draw all CHAP. VII None can truly repent till they goe unto God an● when they do goe he will give them a true repentance THere is not any that can truly repent 〈◊〉 their sinnes till they doe see in some measure the love of God to them they may repent because their sinnes provoke Gods ange● against them and for feare of hell and the judgements of God and because they keep them out of heaven but this is not a true repentance a true repentance is such a repentance that they need not repent them of bu● there requireth a repentance to repent of this repentance but it is the love of God made known to them that makes them to be humbled for their sinnes because they offend so loving a God and they were the cause that Christ was crucified and therefore they hate their sinnes because they are an enemy to God and keeps them from the communion of God O the love of God to thee constrains thee to love him againe and thou art ashamed of thy sinnes and hatest them because God hates them so it is the love of God to them that causeth true repentance When Christ looked upon Peter then he went out and wept bitterly Luk. 22.61 62. Ephraim shall say What have I to do any more w th Idols Hos 14.9 Ephraim was a great sinner he worshipped Idols yet when he saw the love of God to him it so overcame him that he cries out Whot have I to doe any more with Idols though I have had to doe with them yet now I hate them because God hates them Ierem. 31.18 19. I have heard Ephraim lamenting thus Thou hast corrected me and I was chastised as an untamed Colt convert thou me and I shall be converted for thou art the Lord my God Surely after that I converted I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea confounded because I did bear the reproach of my youth Ezek. 16.62 63. And I will establish my covenant with thee and thou shalt know that I am the Lord that thou mayst remember and be ashamed and never open thy mouth any mouth any more because of thy shame when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done saith the Lord God Thus the love of God drawes all to repentance and it prevailes more with them to bring them to repentance than to heare of the wrath of God and judgements and this repentance is a true ●●pentance to hate sinne and to be hu●bled for it because it offends so loving a Go● and therefore to forsake them though ne●● so neer and deare to us and be affraid of co●mitting sinne for feare of offending God 〈◊〉 Joseph said How can I doe this and sinne agai●● God Gen. 39.9 Object If it be so that God doth draw 〈◊〉 men thus to himselfe what is the reason th● all doe not come unto him for wee see th● most keep from him and live in sin and wi●●ednesse Answ The fault is in man O man thy●●struction is of thy selfe For what co●● I have done to my Vineyard that I have 〈◊〉 done it Isa 5.4 And though they goe a●● from Christ yet hee will not leave thems●●● hee followes them 1 Cor. 10.4 They did 〈◊〉 drinke the same spirituall drinke for th● dranke of that spirituall rocke that follow●● them and that roche was Christ Hee followes them with his mercie and ●●ving kindnesse to draw them to him but th● would not Ye would not come unto me th●● might have life And if ye believe not that I● he ye shall dye in your sinnes John 8.24 There is nothing that condemnes the wo●● but the rejecting and undervaluing of Je●● Christ and continue so doing and live and dye so He that believeth not is condemned already because hee hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Sonne of God And this is condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darknesse rather than light John 3.18 19. Christ is the light to lighten every one that comes into the world and hee invites all to come unto him and he will give them of his light that they might see to walke in his way and he would direct them what to doe and lead them in the