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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.
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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 Chriââ hath done for us in particular and he woulâ have his love made knowne to the world thaâ they might believe and then hee will makâ known to them that their sins are pardoned and how great his love is to them and whââ hee hath purchased for them and what theâ are in him And although there remaines sââ in the conversation yet sin in the conscienââ is done away The blood of Christ which througâ the eternall spirit offered himselfe without spoââ purge your consciences from dead workes to serââ the living God Heb. 9.14 And he speaking iâ the 9th verse of this chapter and verse 2. of thâ 10th chapter of the sacrifices in the time of thâ Law there was offered gifts and sacrifices thaâ 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 beeâ offered because that that the offerers oncâ purged should have had no more sine in theiâ 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 maââ with hands which are the figures of the true buâ into heaven itselfe now to appeare in the preseââ of God for us Nor yet that he should offer himselfâ often as the high Priest entereth into the holy plâââ 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. â4 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 Chrisâ 2 Cor. 15.54 55 56 57. So Christ hath done all things for thee anâ hath made way for to goe to God by him Jâsus said I am the way the truth and the life âman commeth to the Father but by me John 1â 6. And now he makes a generall proclamatâon for all to come unto him and he will giââ them life for their life is hid in him and they doe not come unto him they shall dyeâ their sins and the Lord saith As I live I wiââ not the death of a sinner Isa 55.1 2 3. Ho evâââ one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and ãâã that hath no money come ye buy and eat yea comâ buy wine and milke without money and withâââ price Wherefore doe ye spend money for that whiââ is not bread and your labour for that which satiâfieth not hearken diligently unto me and eaââ ye that which is good and let your soule delight selfe in fatnesse Encline your eare and come unâme heare and your soule shall live and I wiââ make aneverlasting Covenant with you even tââ sure mercies of David The waters that we are invited to come ãâã to is Christ he is the water of life John 4 1â And he calls all to come without any worth nesse of their owne though they are never ãâã great sinners let them come let them not keââ back because they are great sinners but therâfore let them come for he dyed for their sins ând if they come unto him he will give them a âardon for their sins their sinnes cannot be too great for him to pardon and doe not stay for âualification to come to Christ for there is âo 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 ât And saith Christ Those that come to me I will âân 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 ãâã are babes at the first and grow by degrees be men in Christ and hee leades them accoâding Wherefore doe ye spend money for that whiââ is not bread you spend a great deale of cost paines to get a righteousnesse of your own aââ so feede upon that but that is not bread thââ is but ashes that will not nourish thee bââ wildo thee more harm than good Christ saitâ He is the bread of life John 6.48 This is ãâã bread which came downe from heaven that a mââ may eate of it and not dye I am the living breââ which came downe from heaven if any man
and we come to beleeve this ãâã the faith of Christ this faith is the eye to ãâã what Christ hath done for us so through thâ faith we are justified by Christ and this is thâ free gift of God and is not any thing of oââ selves our faith is imperfect and therefore ãâã cannot justifie us I beleeve Lord help my unââliefe So that our faith cannot justifie us bâcause there is unbeliefe in it Lord help my ãâã beliefe but the faith of Christ is perfect aâ that alone doth justifie every one that hathâ and without this faith it is impossible to pleââ God Heb. 11.6 and every thing which is ãâã of this faith is sinne and Christ is the authoââ 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 tââ faith and the Lord calls and invites all men come to him and eat freely of this spiritoâ feast that he hath prepared for them he ãâã vites them by the outward preaching of ãâã word and inward movings of his Spirit Pââ 1.20 21 22 23. Wisdome crieth without uttereth her voyce in the streets she crieth the chiefe place of concourse in the openiâ 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 âhrist 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 anâ when they do goe he will give them a true repentance THere is not any that can truly repent ãâã their sinnes till they doe see in some measure the love of God to them they may repent because their sinnes provoke Gods angeâ 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 buâ 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 ââpentance to hate sinne and to be huâbled for it because it offends so loving a Goâ and therefore to forsake them though neââ so neer and deare to us and be affraid of coâmitting sinne for feare of offending God ãâã Joseph said How can I doe this and sinne agaiââ God Gen. 39.9 Object If it be so that God doth draw ãâã men thus to himselfe what is the reason thâ all doe not come unto him for wee see thâ most keep from him and live in sin and wiââednesse Answ The fault is in man O man thyââstruction is of thy selfe For what coââ I have done to my Vineyard that I have ãâã done it Isa 5.4 And though they goe aââ from Christ yet hee will not leave themsâââ hee followes them 1 Cor. 10.4 They did ãâã drinke the same spirituall drinke for thâ dranke of that spirituall rocke that followââ them and that roche was Christ Hee followes them with his mercie and ââving kindnesse to draw them to him but thâ would not Ye would not come unto me thââ might have life And if ye believe not that Iâ he ye shall dye in your sinnes John 8.24 There is nothing that condemnes the woââ but the rejecting and undervaluing of Jeââ 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