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A91366	The way step by step to sound and saving conversion, with a clear discovery of the two states, viz: nature, & grace: and how to know in which state one is, and the way to come out of the one into the other. Or, The ready and right path-way for the first Adams posterity to get out of their fallen estate accompanied with sin and misery, into the relation and family of the last Adam, which estate is attended with grace and glory, &c. With many weighty questions answered, and cases of conscience resolved, for the clearing and confirming the truths asserted. / By Robert Purnell.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4241; Thomason E1800_1; ESTC R209703	66,581	144

there is no hope of Salvation Mat. 18. 3. John 3. 5 Sin was that which fetched the dearest blood from the heart of Christ and will have thine too if thou gettest not an interest in him if thy sin doth not die before thou dost die thou art in danger of 18 Sorts of men womē that shall never enter into heaven perishing eternally Read seriously but these four Scriptures and thou shalt find at least 18 sorts of men and women that shall never enter into heaven unless before they die Christ be formed in them and they restored and renewed born again and covert●d c. 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God be not deceived 1. No Fornicators 2. No Idolators 3. Nor Adulterers 4. Nor Effeminate 5. Nor abusers of themselves with mankinde 6. Nor Theeves 7. Nor Covetous 8. Nor Drunkards 9. Nor Revilers or envious persons 10. Nor Extortioners These shall not inherit the kingdom of God Rev. 21. 8. 11. Nor the fearfull and unbelieving 12. Nor murderers See Rev. 22. 15. 13. Nor sorcerers or those that use witchcraft 14. Nor Lyars all these shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire which is the second death Gal. 5. 19 20 21. 15. Nor he that is given to hatred variance and strife 16. Nor he that is given to seditions heresies they which doe such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God 2 Thess 1. 8. 17. Nor ignorant persons 18. Nor those that refuse to practice what they know being disobedient These persons being shut out of heaven makes good the words of Christ Mat. 7. 13 14. Enter ye in at the strait gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which enter in thereat because straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be which find it Rom. 9. 27. Though the number of the children of Israel he as the sands of the Sea a remnant shall be saved Well the holy nature of God will not permit the unclean and unholy soul to come into his presence Rev. 21. 27. There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that de●ileth or whatsoever worketh abomination Ps 5. 4. Neither shall evil dwell with him the foolish shall not stand in his sight it is true you may call him Lord Lord till the last Mat. 7. 21 22. But he will tell you he doth not know you if thou hast not something of the image of that Spirit that holy nature whatsoever thou mayest think of thy self he will never take thee for his child thou art wicked and the wicked as Psal 9 17. shall be turned into hell and all they that forget God and surely God in the execution of the curse doth the sinner no wrong nay he should doe wrong unto himself and with reverence so to speak be unjust if he should not execute Justice upon the sinner either in himself or in his Surety There are four strong reasons for it viz. 1. To manifest the majestie of him who is offended 2. And the goodness of the command that is transgressed 3. The evil of sin that is committed 4. The vildness of the sinner for sinning c. I had once thought to have spoken somthing to each of these four heads but shall not at present but desire the Reader to consider that every sin puts God upon complaining and Christ upon bleeding and the Spirit upon grieving Every sin doth cast a treble dishonor upon God 1. In its malignitie as being most contrary to the pure unspotted and perfect nature of God 2. In its obstinacie it opposeth the command of God slights the will of God and contradicts the design of God 3. Sin doth cast a dishonor upon God in its choice a sinner in sinning chuseth a base lust a venomous sin a crooked way before the glorious precious and most desirable good the Lord himself So that man in the state of nature lives upon the earth as a condemned creature under guilt curse and death being conceived in sin and brought forth into the world in iniquitie having lost that Image of righteousness holiness and saving knowledg of God in which Adam our father was at first created and so remains till born again converted and regenerated the children of wrath by Nature dead in sins and trespasses Aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel Satans captives servants and slaves and these men in this estate of Nature differ much one from another one seems nearer unto the other farther from the Kingdom of God Mark 12. 34. compared with Psal 119. 155. They 1. Have such hardened hearts and seared consciences that they commit all manner of wickedness with greediness glorying in their shame and so making themselves as the Scripture saith sevenfold more the children of wrath than they were before guilty of original sin but now they are become guiltie of original and actual transgression having been filling up the measure of their iniquitie and fitting themselves for the day of slaughter Matth. 23. 32 33. compared with James 5. 5. 2. Others walk more evenly and usefully being in a measure civilized by education custome fear of punishment good Examples wholesome counsels So was the young man Matth. 19. 20. All these things have I kept from my youth up What lack I yet c. So was the Scribe we reade of Mark 12. 32 33 34 he answered discreetly and Christ told him he was not far from the Kingdom of God Let the Reader consider that although Man is so fearfully and shamefully fallen yet there r●mains some footsteps marks and impressions of that righteous and eternal Law at first engraven in his heart by the finger of the Almightie by which many Naturalists have acted wisely and prudently as to worldly affairs and humane concernments as may at large be safely gathered from many Scriptures there may be a change and yet not The Change Some of the Lord's people upon good ground doth observe that there is a sou● fold change Change 1. A moral 2. A partial 3. A formal 4. A spiritual A man by improvement of the light and gifc in Nature may obtain to the three former as to instance 1. There is a moral change when a person or a people changeth from sinfull notorious waies to temperance justice equitie patience when ignorance is taken away by illumination and boldness in sinning is abated by fear of punishment and sticks there and goes no farther and here thousands stay and live quietly and perish eternally 2. There is a partial Change when men forsake some sins and yet live in the love and liking of other sins Christ sets this down in the Parable of the unclean Spirit as to some sinfull courses is cast out for a time but afterwards returns with seven spirits worse than himself and so his last end proves worse than his beginning Matth. 12.

3. The Devil is said to be his Prince John 12. 31. 4. The Devil is said to be his God 2 Cor. 4 4. And so man thus fallen bears the Image of Satan which doth not consist in any bodily shape as some do foolishly imagine but in a likeliness of all manner of wickedness The understanding by this fall was darkened and filled with vanitie Psal 94. 11. and 2 Cor. 4. 4 The will depraved the affections disordered the memory misimploied the conscience benummed In a word the wretched soul is so desormed with filthiness outraged with passions pined with envie overcharged with gluttonie boiling with revenge transported with rage that the Image of God in Man is transformed into the uglie shape of the Devil Gen. 6. 5. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was onely evil and that continually And this fallen heart not onely evil but desperately wicked Jer. 17. 9. The heart is deceitfull above all things and desperately wicked who can know it O Sirs there are but few that doth know the plague of their own hearts c. So that Man in this fallen estate is become a lump of sinne from the crown of the head to the soale of the foot there is no soundness And so all the posteritie of Adam have sinned and come short of the glorie of God and are now become Satans conquest captives and slaves being under the curse and subject to bondage and miserie Isai 63. 6. So we are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousness as filtby rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the winde have taken us away Mr. Baxter in his Treatise of Conversion p. 71. affirms that even our children by nature considered as finfull and unsanctified are as hatefull in the eies of God as any Toads or Serpents are in ours c. See 1 John 3. 10. Nay further consider a little by what names and titles all men and women thus fallen and so remaining are The names Titles given in Scripture to fallen man known by in the Scriptures of truth Sometimes they are called filtby dreamers defiling the flesh Jud. 8. Raging waves of the Sea foaming out their own shame Jud. 13. Natural bruit beasts made to be taken and destroyed that shall utterly perish in their own corruptions 2 Pet. 2. 12. Wells without water cloudes that are carried with a tempest to whom the mist of darknesse is reserved for ever 2 Pet. 2. 17. A generation of vipers Mat. 3. 7. Ye serpents how can ye escape the damnation of hell Mat. 23. 33. The Scripture calls them Lions for their fiercenesse and Bears for their cruelty Dragons for their hiddiousnesse dogs for their filthinesse and wolves and foxes for their subtilty in a word the Scripture stiles them Scorpions vipers thorns briars thistles brambles stubble dirt chaffe dust drosse smoak scum and a cage of every unclean Bird Rev. 18. 2. And if all this be not enough we are said to be Satans slaves or captives 2 Tim. 2. 26. Man can never be saved unlesse he be regenerated No salvation without regeneration born again and converted and have the image of God renewed which was defaced in our fall in the first Adam Hence it is that Christ tells us Mat. 7. 13. 4. Straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth to life and few there be that find it There being four gates shut and five exceptions made by Christ against their entering in First there are four gates shut Mat. 25. 12. 1. The gate of hope 2. The gate of grace 3. The gate of mercy 4. The gate of comfort Secondly there are five exceptions made by the Lord Jesus Christ against their entring into heaven The first exception is that in John 3. 3. Jesus answered and said unto him verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born again be cannot see the Kingdome of God 2. Exception is that Mat. 18. 3. Verily I say unto you except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven 3. Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Luke 13. 3. 5. 4. Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood ye have no life in you John 6. 53. 5. Except your righteousnesse shall exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharises ye shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of heaven Mat. 5. 20. But most of the world will be apt to say Object we grant all this But what is this to us we have confessed our sinnes we have prayed we have repented of our sinnes and in some good measure reformed our lives Beware of temporary faith partial obedience Answ messionary love pretended zeal legal sorrow and feined humility these may have the forme and yet want the power of godlinesse except thy righteousnesse exceed that of the Pharisees thy sacrifice that of Cain's thy confessing of sins that of Pharaoh's thy weeping that of Sauls thy fasting that of Abab's thy reformation that of Jehu's thy restitution that of Judas thy believing that of Simon Magu● thy fear and trembling that of Felix these were cast-awaies notwithstanding these were seeming good things Hast thou never read of Pharaoh desiring the prayer of Moses Balaam desiring to die the death of the righteous Saul condemning of himself Ahab humbling himself Ninive repenting Felix trembling Herod hearing John Baptist joyfully and did many things Mark 6. 20. All this mayst thou doe and more thou mayst live rejoycingly and die peaceably and yet perish eternally Consider if thou wert cursed in the wombe born a child of wrath what art thou now having lived so long in sin but the child of hell farr more than thou wast before Psal 58. 3. Job 20. 11. Again if for one fin all the curses of the Law doe lie upon thee as Gal. 3. 10. James 2. 10. what is due to thee for all thy sins If single sins deserve death what doe thy double and treble sins deserve Consider thy often backsliding sinnes against knowledge conscience covenants purposes promises protestations c. Do● not all these deserve double and d●eper damation viz. Not knowing of God he will not have mercie upon thee Isa 27. 11. compared with 2 Thess 1. 8. Not repenting thou shalt perish Luke 13. 3. Not believing in him thou shalt be damned John 3. 18. Not loving him thou art cursed 1 Cor. 16. 22. Not being zealous according to knowledge he will spew thee out of his mouth Rev. 3. 16. Not being meek thou art abomination to the Lord Prov. 3. 32. Not being mercifull thou shalt have judgement without mercy Jam. 2. 13. Not being holy thou shalt never see the face of the Lord Not washing thy heart from wickedness thou canst not be saved Jer. 4. 14. Therefore ground this in the bottom of thy heart That without true conversion

it is a great incouragement to one Christian to see the forwardness of another in the waies of well doing 3. To win others to the imbracing of the gospol 1 Pet. 3. 1 2. that they may be won by the conversation whilst they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear c. A man doth teach by his conversation as well as by his doctrine 4. Good works and an holy conversation are good in respect of others for an example of Vertue Joh. 13. 15. I have done this good work to give you an example said our Lord Christ Again we read Thes 1. 7. So that ye were examples to all that believe And indeed each Officer in the Church should walk so as to be a good example to the Flock there is ateaching by Example as well as by Doctrine See Phil. 3. 17. By all which we may see that good works are necessary in respect of the Lord which doth command them and of our selves that doth them and of others that behold them although there is no man saved for his good works yet there is none saved without them Many other Arguments might begiven to engage us to be rich in good works to instance in few and so to close this Answer to this Question consider then 1. That all the commands of God to walk holy are but as so many perswasions to perswade us to be happy Deut. 5. 29. That it might go well with us and our Children 2. Because Christians are the salt of the Earth the light of the world a City set upon a Hill that cannot be hid Mat. 5. 13 14. 3. Seeing that death and judgement and the end of this life and world is at hand 2 Pet. 3. 11 c. 4. There is no condemnation to those that walk not after the flesh but after the spirit Rom. 8. 1. 5. This is the way to have Gods blessing upon all we set our hand unto Psal 1. 3. Qu. You have here presented us with our Duty and the benefits and privileges that will redound to us if we obey but how shall we be enabled to do these things Jer. 10. 23. the way of man is not in himself it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps and Saint Paul tells us from the Lord that we are not sufficient as of our selves to think so much as one good thought and that it is God that worketh both to will and to do c. Answ Strength to perform any duty to exercise any Grace to subdue any Lust or resist any Temptation to bear any Affliction c. is derived only from the Lord one of these three wayes to the Soul 1. Consider That either he hath already before hand as it were enabled us to do the thing commanded by giving us a Talent or Talents 1 Cor. 12. 8 9 10. Rom. 12. 6 Mat. 25. 15. to 28. 2. Let us consider That many times the Lord conveys a power together with the command to enable us to do the thing commanded So when he bid Lazarus come forth of the Grave so when he commanded the man that was sick of the palsi● to take up his Bed and walk Lu. 5. 24 25. So again Ezek. 2. 1 2. And he said unto me Son of Man stand upon thy feet and I will speak unto thee and the spirit entred into me when he spake and set me upon my feet and I heard him speak unto me 3. If we find no power already given us before the command neither any power conveyed to us together with the command then in the next place we are to bring the command to the Promise and so to seek for by Prayer the blessing of the Promise that we may be enabled to do the Duty of the Precept To instance in a few cases for all the rest It is mans duty to believe Mar. 1. 15. Precept Promise Prayer Believing is Gods free gift Ephes 2. 8. This puts the Soul upon praying for it I believe help my unbelief Mar. 9. 24. It is mans duty to wash and be clean Is 1. Precept It is Gods promise to sanctifie and cleanse Promise us Ezek. 36. 25. The Soul seeing its duty and Gods promise Prayer prayes Wash me and I shall be clean Psal 51. 2. It is mans duty to repent Acts 17. 30. Precept Promise The promise holds forth repentance as the gift of God Acts 5. 31. 2 Tim. 2. 25. Prayer sues it out Turn thou me and I shall Prayer be turned Jer. 31. 18. It is required of man as his duty to make him Precept anew heart Ezek. 18. 31. It is Gods promise to give a new heart Ezec. Promise 36 26. Create in me a new heart O God and renew Prayer a right Spirit within me Ps 51. 10. It is mans duty to love God Mat. 22. 37. Precept Promise It is Gods promise to circumcise the heart to love him Deut. 30. 6. The Lord direct your hearts into the love Prayer of God 2 Thes 3. 5. It is mans duty to fear God Deut. 10. 12. Precept Promise It is Gods promise to put his fear into our Precept Promise hearts Ier. 32. 40. Prayer seeks for it Psal 86. 11. Unite my Prayer heart to fear thy name It is mans duty to draw near to God Iawes Precept 4. 8. It is Christs promise to draw men unto him Promise Iohn 12. 32. Prayer falls in sutable herunto Can. 1. 4. Draw Prayer me we will run after thee It is mans dutie to walk in Gods Statutes Precept Psal 119. 4 It is Gods promise to inable men so to do Promise Ezek. 36. 27. O that my ways were directed to keep thy Prayer statutes Psa● 119. 5. It is mans duty to be strong in the Lord Precept Ephes 6. 10. It is Gods promise to make him strong Psal Promise 29. 11. Prayer falls in O give thy strength to thy Prayer Servant Psal 86. 16. It is mans duty to draw near to but not to Precept depart from God Heb. 3 12. It is Gods promise to his people that they Promise shall not depart from him Jer. 32 40. O let me not wander from thy commandements Prayer Ps 119. 10. Let the Reader consider that to each precept there is a promise and to some precepts there are two or three promises the one to enable us the other to reward us and all to encourage us to do our duty the commands in Scripture doth not so much shew what the Creature can do but what he should do yet not by his own natural power but by his assisting and enabling grace In a word Duty is the matter of Gods Promise as well as Gods Mercy as doth most clearly appear by these Scriptures Ephes 2. 8. Phil. 1. 29. Acts 5. 31. John 8. 32. Quest What is the best way to mortifie sin that is so prevailing in us