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A56582	The path of life and the way that leadeth down to the chambers of death, or, The steps to hell and the steps to heaven in which all men may see their ways, how far they have gone downwards to destruction, that they may make hast to recover themselves, least by taking the next step downwards to their everlasting misery they be not necessitated to take the 7, 8, and 9, and then there be no remedy ... : set forth in copper prints that by the outward and visible we may the easier see that which is inward and invisible.	Jenner, Thomas, fl. 1631-1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing P715; ESTC R217054	26,570	62

hath comfort for thee and thy mourners yea for them afar off as well as nere if thou seek not thy own ends abhorring to think themselves well because the Law hath them under bondage till the Gospel have comforted them II. VNION Vnion The sole can no more reciue ought from God tell it be maried vnto Christ and be on with him by faith than bodey soule can imparte or reciue to or fro tell on hence issueth all ve●tew vigor and power into vs that is meate for our support either earthley or Sprituall tell our Vniō be pefected in glorey 4. Ru●h 11.12 Union is the first priviledge of the condition of a man called issuing from hence being indeed the complement of faith for fai●h determines calling and begins union whereby the beleiving soul is so brought home and knit to God in Christ that it loses her former corrupt estate of cutting off from God and puts on a new of being one with the Lord and he with it that so that soul may be fraight with true titles and intrest to all good things which either the Lord can convey or the soul receive and that in a farre better kinde and measure then ever Adam was Union with God is necessary to all that would partake of his grace for as it was in the Creation till the Lord had breathd the spirit of life and himselfe in him Adam could have no communion with God so it is in the second creation no benefit no fruit thereof can come to the soule till this second creation and union be but this as by a channel the rest follow reconciliation with amity adoption with worship and liberty c. hence it is that our Saviour presseth this He that abides not in me is as a branch cut from the vine which withers contrarily he that abides in me draweth life from me and nourishment he liveth in me as the living arme receiveth vertue of motion and strength to be useful to the body from the head The union of Grace is not like that of creation neither in the measure nor in the instrument of it not in the measure for in the creation there was a total and imediat union in that kinde and it was a perfect one having Gods image in it without let or impeachment but this union of Grace is an imperfect union for measure in this life because the reliques of corruption and the old Adam as drosse mix themselves with the soul suffers not God and it to knit fully but as it is with the science put into the clift of a stock if there be any drosse in the clift between the stock and the science it cannot be close and grow perfectly so here the Lord and the soul cannot be so nere in this life because there is fo much scurf within us that God and we cannot close God being contrary or disagreeing with Baal and this appears further in this that the estate that answers Paradice is not of Grace but that to come in glory when corruption and sin and death shall be swallowed up in corruption full righteousnesse and life not that there is not even here a true and reall union but not a full and intire one The instruments of unions are unlike for that of creation needed no other tie or bond save the immediate presence of God in his image which had then no sin nor let to divide it but the union that is now is incumbred with lets and enimies must needs be maintained by a band of greater perfection then any is in us the nearer infused grace of light and holinesse joyned Adam and God and that free will in his nature upheld that Image of God in her exercise and action but it is otherwise now in this decay of nature there must be wrought in the soule another instrument to knit us to God and hold his grace in continuall exercise Fai●h must needs be the knitter of this union because it resists that perfectly which cuts us off from God I mean guilt and curse I say it selfe is imperfect yet it resists perfectly because it is given by God to this purpose to receive a perfect discharge in Christ from all that sin which cuts us off and from that excommunication and seperation from God which came there by faith then is that which eff●cts this union in this life absolutely that holinesse which is infused here into us is imperfect and therefore cannot fully knit us to a perfect God faith onely can hold Christ to the soul who is this life of union and so keep us close and knit to God even when our image of God in holiness is weak by this means so soon as faith hath abolished that which formerly cut off union it sets the soul in state of union as before and so breeds in it the true life of grace through pardon and forgivenesse and coming to God Faith rests not in this her uniting quality true it is she holds this her work through the whole life of believers to cover the defects of Gods image and to help true and full union on foot supplying all wants but she still strives to settle the b●ginning of holinesse also in the soul and an union thereby also it applies it weakly and in part yet it truely applies it and even here infuseth by the Spirit a most true being of Gods image and makes the soul partaker of the divine nature thereby even that partisipation which in glory shall be one and the same for kinde though fuller for measure The Spirit effects this union by the word of Promise and the Seal according as Christ was given by God to bring all unto him and to present them unto him spotlesse and unblameable so doth the word convey this Promise of Christ to the soul as by Christ it comes to passe that those who are cut off were afar off aliens from the community of Israel and the life of God were made near and one Ephes. 4. 16. The effect of this union inhabiting and indwelling of the spirit in that soul which is become one with himselfe that so it may injoy communio● and f●llowship with him in that Intercourse of all graces protection upholding and rule as seem best to himselfe so that now God in Christ by the spirit is that to the so●l which before her lusts were all in all Lord and K●ng light and defence Heaven and happinesse as we see that the owner dwells in his house the King in his Kingdome and the soul in the body both for the welfare of the posessed and the honour of the posessor the same house of the soul the same seat which was before is still but new rule and law much adoe there is between Christ and old usurping inmates lust world selfelove pride and revenge yet the soule gives that presidency to her Lord and resignes up keys posessions to him she is under his authority she swayes here by this kingdome set up in her defends

loathsomnesse of it were worse what a sight is it then to behold a man indued with naturall life and breath to walk and crawle up and down voyd of the life of his life dead a meer Carrion breathing death death of grace in his naturall life and stinking even above ground even in the nostrills of God and man who are able to smell and discern Breathing corruptions in Gods nostrills and casting the noysome savour of it before men loathsome Oaths drunkennesse swearing cursing deceit lying falshood Not to speak of inward loathsomenesse of self-love carnall ease unclean thoughts infidelity hypocrisie security prophanenes and the like all these the Lord by his word discovers to the soule And besides that foule delusion of his heart which makes him to think his wound to be healed when he can keep it sweet As if a Prince cast out of his Throne justly deposed from his Crowne into a Dungeon should applaud himself in some of his best Robes and apparell So it is here when hypocrites can furnish themselv●s with some of Gods attire and pride themselves in their knowledge parts wealth wit credit and esteem or some gifts of restraint and morrall vertues and abstainance from evill so they conceive themselves thereby to be the persons they are not and take a counterfeit shew of Parots tongues or an Apes laughter or an Image chattering to be the true life of grace these the Lord doth discover to the soule effectually and stirringly where he will regenerate and beget again he will cause the odiousnesse of spirituall death and deprivall of God to pierce the soule to the quick and will give it sence and conscience thereof No little infant having lost father mother and friends all at once no idiot deprived of his wit and understanding are more sencelesse of their condition then this soul is for being deprived of God it is withall a fool deprived of the sences of it and as a fool pleaseth himselfe as much in his babble as in all the inheritances he hath lost so doth this foole in his painted sheath of carnall qualities and indowments of nature which in truth doe as little grace him as the gawdy Coat of a fool stript of his wits As it was with Nebuchadnezzar being driven from his Kingdome and men to live among Beasts Whether really or in his opinion he lost as well the reflection of his mind to tell him in what case he was as his understanding it self yea much more so is it here a most miser●ble spectacle to behold a creature miserable and thinking it self posessed of all rich cloathing and furnished with all necessaries Once the Counsel of France fearing the mutiny of the people upon the death of the King devised a policy to array the dead body with all his wonted atire robes putting the Scepter into his hand a Crown upon his head so placing him upon his bed and all his Chamber richly beset and his curtains about him and his pale face painted that so by his being given out and by some beheld might delude the people So it is here the dead soul be●ooled with her own delusions being wholy miserable pleaseth her self with a dream that she is otherwise and this serves her instead of life it self Where the Lord will Regenerate to a new life he brings the soul to the sence of her losse by the light of his Law shining as in dark places as the light of the morning discovers to a man robbed in the night at once what a condition he is left in and seases it with a spirit of misery and beggery really ignorant now what to doe wringing his hands and saying what shall be●ome of me how shall I live and passe my life how sh●ll I avoyd the pinch of beggery the shame of an undone man that sorrow that will ensue I say when once the Lord savingly works this for else it may vanish he doth in season present the soul with the news of another life to prevent utter sinking and stays the heart thereby he shews it that as lost and forlorne as she is yet there is a way to restore her former integrity againe Now as touching the way of the Lords first in lightments of the soul in it And secondly applies and fastens it upon the same he enlightens it into kindnesse First about the order of this way Secondly about the way it selfe Touching the order of it he tels her That for as much as she once had this life and Image of God created in her and hath wilfully lost it therefore before he can restore her to it the second time his justice which is wronged by her sins and hath justly accused her for it must first be satisfied and the soule must apprehend this Sanctification to her selfe as her own and by this means her guiltiness and curse must be washed off and removed out of his way for otherwise how can he and the corrupt soul be brought together what communion can there be between sin and purenesse Secondly He enlightens the soul in the way it self to wit that in his wisdome and love he hath granted his own Son true God and the nature which was offended to suffer the imputation of guilt and the death which it procured in the nature and for the nature of guilty man and by this suffering he satisfied justice to the full so that hereby by the way that sin had shut up might stand and lie open for the restoring of poor lost souls to their former nature and life of God again Having thus enlightned the soul about this way he then applies it to the soul and that by a second closer work of his grace for he applies this work of Regeneration by the instrument of his word and promises which is as a seed of his Regeneration cast into the womb of the soul by hearing it preached as St. Iames saith Of his good will begot he us by the word of truth This word carrieth with it a forming power of the second birth even a creating of God in the soul Againe Secondly The efficient cause is the spirit of Regeneration taking the word and casting it into the soul there hatching and cherishing the same till it hath formed Christ therein who is the second Adam the true way and life that quickning spirit And Thirdly He effects this in the soul by the power of faith which receives this seed of the word and this quickning of the spirit and posesseth the soul therewith Faith doth these two things First it receivs the way of this life into the soul which is the putting away of guilt and curse which Adams sin contracted and that is pardon and forgivenesse Secondly it receives therewith and at once the actual and real properties and nature of God to inherit and dwell in the soul and howsoever when Divines speak of this work they must properly settle Regeneration upon the latter yet in working and practice it is most certain that it

supplyed in Heaven yet here thou shalt partake all the good things of God for why whom doth a Father provide for but for his Children whose is all that he hath save theirs Again if a Son then thou knowest the way to the Throne of grace even to the Father in the mediation of Christ and there canst with the spirit of a Son groan at least unutterable desire to the Lord that thou mightest be once free from bondage to this body of death from unbeliefe and an unsavoury heart from worldlinesse from the errour of the wicked and this sinfull world and the like Oh with humble confidence thou wilt make known thy request to God and that in secret such as none but thy selfe can be privy to and wilt improve this liberty then strangers and slaves shall not dare to come nere by these few try thy self and if thou finde the spirit of Adoption to be a stranger leave not till the Lord have created it if he have done it stand fast in this priviledge and maintain it by thy awe fear of thy Father not lest he should cast thee off againe but because being once a Son thou shalt never be disposessed either of thy right here or thine inheritance hereafter rely upon thy Father bear thy selfe upon him not to presume to offend him or to try conclusions what a Father can bear but to fear him to keep thy heart in awe childlike tender to prize thy priviledge and wonder that thousands should be left as bastards and others cast out as Ishmaels and thou taken in as a Son and kept in the house not to be cast out blesse the Lord for ●his and seek no other base props as if they could bear thy priviledge or add to it honour nothing so far as to come into competi●ion with a Father Abraham hath forgotten thee but thou art our Father O Lord Isa. 63. hold thy Sonship by faith that so thou mayest hold with all the love of thy Father and count it a secret blessing which no servant or stranger can partake of or understand in all thy base revolts rest not in any of thy false amends by duty till the thought of thy Father hath received thee to thy former condition use him as a Father and think not that thou canst come too often unto him in prayer learn to acquaint with ●im and Iob 22. be no stranger walk in and out with a mixture of fear and confidence for as he is a consuming fire so yet he rejoyceth to get his childrens hearts rest on him consider what an unspeakable debt of love is in a fathers heart Ioab told David and so Absolom had lived he would not have cared if himself and his had dyed why he was his child and all his treachery could not put ou● love from him if once rhou be a child of this father thou mayest go to him for rescue against all enemies Isa. 63. 15. thy name may be Elimelech or Abimelech my God my Father is a King he will be even with them that touch his annoynted Eph. 1. 18 19. see there the great hopes which a Son of this father hath title to what indeavors are so poor which a father respects not in a child who shall ever seperate a Son from his Father could Satan come betwe●n God and Iob. Chap. 1. Children wives servant● friends bretheren all carnall relations may fail this is everlasting Isa. 63. 16. Redemption Christ ●em●ue Sin and guilt payes ye price ransum of his blud to make a satisfaction for them to Iustice deliue●s ye sole from both gui●● dominion of sin fo ther is no place or pleading or sentance for punishment treding vpon lions aders yong lions dragon● trampling vnder foot 91 Psalme 13 VII REDEMPTION REdemption to two things First thraldome and slavery to sin and so to all enemies who by sin strove to hold the soul under fear and bondage Secondly to the sting and dint of all such crosses as sin hath brought into the world as the tokens of Gods displeasure for it Touching the first Redemption sets the soule at liberty from all that servitude and tiranny it buys out and restores the soul to the liberty of the released and ransomed ones makes it free onely to righteousnesse and that for ever bears the eare for God and yet not to make the soul slavish but a servant being delivered from all enemies yea death it selfe the last enemy to serve the Lord in righteousnesse and holinesse alwayes From hence issueth an heart in larged to God so fearing him as fearing nothing else not serving in the oldnesse of the letter but in the newnesse of the spirit delivered from the Ordinances of Moses the traditions of Pharises and Papists the bonds imposed unjustly by bad men upon conscience Hence secondly floweth a right to the protection and providence of God and to his holy hand over us and ours against the violence of outward enemies or those crosses which threaten our lives health liberty and welfare begun in this life ending at the resurrection And lastly to those two may be added freedome to Gods service to finde it an easie yoak and a light burden yea to count it our happinesse to deny our own wills because bodies and souls are bought with a price that we should not be at our own but at his will who dearly bought us see 2 Cor. 5. 15. The will hath lost her freedome to all true good and is tyed to evill onely and continually the conscience hath lost hers by guilt and accuseth in stead of excusing or else excused deceitfully or else is senslesse of either sorrow begins at home by sin but ends abroad for by this means whatsoever fear or evill sin hath incurred that the Devil abuses to hold the soule under by as the wrath of God the purenesse and terrour of the Law the one to tempt the other to terrifie the day of account and last Judgement the time of death which is the sentence in this life eternall misery hereafter besides many calamities here either felt or feared from which though a sinner be actually saved yet not secured of but all the life long subject unto bondage by these Satan enslaves the soul so that either their bondage by sin i● used by the Lord as a step to deliver from bondage to sin sin hath set up a court in the conscience of man in this court the debt or crime impleaded is sin the pleader and informer is Satan the rule of proceeding is the Law of Justice the evidence given or witnesse is conscience the Judge the Lord the penalty is death and distruction during the substance of this court in what a pickle is man the strong man Satan by this house of conscience holds this sinner bound and shut up under brazen bars and bolts not to be broken open by a mortall opposite but rules and keeps all at peace and at his own pleasure Now mark as we

work equall to Gods power to create peace in it and to restore it being lost is far greater the Sea raging and calmed doth not more differ then the peace of conscience from the rage and distemper of it therefore it s said that Christ setled peace and stilled this raging Sea of conscience Eph. 2. 15. Having abolished in his flesh the enmity so setling peace through the blood of his crosse so that by this means we may turn our mourning into dancing the Lyon and the Lamb may feed together and the Childe may put his finger into the hole of the Aspe inward peace being outward with Angels Iusstification Looke what peace welfaire Adams inosencey reflec●ed vpon him before he had sinned yt doth Iustisication cast upon ye sole by forgiunes feares are all scatred by this perfect loue of God r●●iued by faith eauen as Nebozar●idan Captain of Nebocadnesors gard said to ●mprisoned Ieremiah eauen this day haue I losed the from ye●onds wich war vpon thy hands 40 Ieremiah 4 verce with men with Devils Death and enemies So againe Christ is called Isa. 8. The Prince of our peace noting that it was the work of the Priesthood assisted with his Kingdome to purchase it and likewise his third work of Prophesie was taken up in it for he was an annoynted Isa. 61. to that purpose To preach glad tidings of peace Rom. 10. 15. to the meek and to this purpose he is called a witnesse both of declaring his truth and also declaring the controversie between Gods justice and our soules for look how one sufficient witnesse in a Court may by his verdit settle a mans whole estate upon him and recover his wright so the Lord Jesus by his blood bears witnesse that our sin and curse is gone setling pardon and salvation upon us desiding the question and making peace and in this sence we read Heb. 12. that The blood of the Covenant speaks better things then that of Abell that cryer in Cains conscience nothing save revenge and horror but this cryeth peace to conclude the like is that which 1 Pet. 3. 20. the Apostle saith of Baptism The seale of the Covenant in the blood of Christ that saves us not by washing away the filth of the flesh but by the answer of a good conscience to God by the resurrection of Christ what is that surely this that when the Lord asks the soul in what plight it is the conscience steps out and answers Lord it is well with me it was as ill as it could be but now it s as well as can be thou hast changed all in a moment for in stead of war I have peace This is the first step to all other benefits no peace no joy no liberty no adoption nothing at all it s the first ripe fruit of the Paradice of God equalling the fruit of the tree of life dost thou look upon a believer thou seest a precious object a son of peace he carries that within his bosome which cost the Son of God his heart blood which far exceeds all Gold and Pearls for which he hath peace within he is at league with all fears and in the suburbs of all prosperity he hath peace with every stone of his field and may visit his habitation wit joy his life health wife children so that they say away base companions ye have fought long enough in my m●mbers Iames 4.1 and wasted my peace I will not buy you at so dear a rate as sorrow and repentance nor forfeit my peace for all the fruit I have got by you which is shame and death that peace of God that passeth understanding shall so rule me that I 'le renounce you all before I 'le loose one dram of my peace bring me such peace as Christ hath brought me by forgivenes and then I will say somewhat to you but ●ill then farewel for ever Nay yet more this peace followeth them in afflictions when the Lord se●ms to have a controversie with them ●nd to write bitter things against them in their married estate children name health calling succ●sses in their Ministers neighbours and best friends for this world is full of time-servers even then they have peace to stand by them and as Isaiah●aith Chap 27. 4. they have already taken hold of peace and had peace that is held in their ●treets as one said I will bear my paine patiently because I know the hardest and that I shall never feel the paine of the wicked therefore I should not fear if I were in the vail of death for thy rod and staffe do comfort me if now my peace were to make it were wofull with me but I bles●e God I am now in peace and in joy the fruit of it Nay lastly this peace is joyned with a complacency and joy of heart telling the soul its happy and t●erefore cannot lye hid in the soul idely but as ●eaven which seasons and savours the lump so doth this aff●ct the heart with a liking and joy in her welfare no fool is so tickled with his Paradice as this soul is really joyed in this benefit all yee that would have your teeth water after these dainties behold them and be in love with them to desire them your owne por●ion buy this Jewel but sell it not beware you grow not to slight it nourish it in your souls First by abhorring all sinnes that wast the conscience and other spirituall secret filth wch might spring up as a bitter root to defile their sweet peace poyson not this welspring of life from whence all the issues of life and death doe proceed in shew peace if we desire holinesse Heb. 12. take heed of any secret closings with sin upon any false colours dispensations and distinctions in a nibling kinde and dallying with some kinde and degree as when we dare not attempt greater for when once our peace staggers surely it will prove defiled keep it therefore as a Jewel intire sound and honest and so we shall finde it even as the tender eye-sight if it be lasht never so little nay if it have but a more fallen into it it is troubled straight way so will our peace be therefore preserve it from the daily soyl of appearances of lawfull liberty from the incroaching of ease worldlinesse formality and the like renewing it often by faith in the Covenant of pardon and renewing our own Covenant that by daily and often reckning we may long keep him our friend who hath given us our peace as the pledge thereof V. RECONCILIATION Reconcilliation As fauorites we find accesse to him going in out with well pleasing all former ●reachorey being forgotten peace in not per●ybing is a blessing the admishion to former royallteyes digneyteyes is more so that the ring the Robes the fated Callfe is brought out for the reconsiled Prodigall 15 Luke ●● The benefit of reconciliation offered by Christ is the firme solid argument and friendship of the soul with the Lord of Heaven