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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

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

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

consists in them both I say Faith as St. Peter speaketh doth make us partakers of the divine nature in both though the conceiving of such a mystery exce●ds us The Lord offers to a lost soul this word of promise I will that thou O dead soul shalt live in my Son I being satisfied by his death am content that thy soul receive again this life of mine again I have no pleasure in the death of a sinner wherefore turn ye your selves and live yea awake thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead and Christ shall give you life the dead shall hear the voyce of the Son of God and they ●hat hear it shall live these and the like promises do offer life to all dead souls that need it both life here and hereafter glory Conception the least step of this life by which the soul retains and keeps this seed of life suffers it not to passe away and be spilt as an hypocrites but digests and holds the Promise to its s●lf till it have bred it longing of the appetite lustings af●er a kinde of alterations of spirituall appetite and a desire after this life this is that Isaiah means Chap. 55. 4. Incline your hearts and he●rken unto me that is be so affected with this p●omise of life that you do incline towards it and make to it that we walk in Gods way appointed to bring you to it be aff●cted seriously with the excellency of this life● and the happy change that God offers you that your souls do diligently ensue it in the means so that in this first work is contained the whole work of the Lords preparing the soul for the receiving of this life standing in those many affections created in the same by the glad tidings of this word of life that is it stirs the soul to mourn for so long living a dead life and resi●●ing the offers of life and resting in the shew of a false conception it doth long after this exceeding great priviledge to be partaker of the nature and life of God it doth prize it above the most excellent inferiour life of this world though it were Solomons felicity in comparison of it it empties it selfe and is voyded from all other hopes and desires of life even as the womb that conceives must be clear from all former conceptions it useth all means which God hath appoynted with all eagernesse of soul restles till it obtaines it The quickning power of the spirit of Promise whereby the Lord infuseth this life of God into the soul which is nothing else save the souls breaking through the manifold struggles and strifes which selfe and unbeliefe doe work within her self doth obey the voyce and command of the Promise that so it may live as we see the nature of all fruits hath many changes pangs and strives within the womb ere it come to the birth So here the soul hath manifold resistance and oppositions in her selfe against the Promise but cannot tell what to say of her self whether she should live or no often gives over the Promise as to good discourageth her self by the presence of a body of death which still abides and a weak base heart chusing to lye stinking in her grave of death and sottish ease and lusts that so she may turn back to her old vomit and avoyd the trouble and difficulty of this new birth when the soul comes out of the womb into the light that is discovers her self to be alive and apprehends as I may say her own life that God hath begotten her unto himself which is the highest step and degree of life which is bred in her for as the fruit in the womb being quickned yet wanteth the full proportion of its parts till the forming power of generation do by weeks and months more and more perfect and fashon them all to a comely being and creature which at last is brought forth so here the poor soul having received the life of God into her by her weak and poor Faith scarce felt and perceived yet by the secret power of the spirit goeth from degree to degree that although she hath no other life at the birth then in the quickning yet this life is more apparent and visible every day then other till at last the spirit fall in travel and bringing forth Christ formed in the soul so that the soul appears unto her self and not others to live and to beleive because now she is in the light perfect and brought forth so that the infant that is bo●n doth not more beray the naturall life by weeping laughing breathing feeding sleeping stirring feeling growing then the life of a believing soule once brought forth appears in the operations and works of the new creature and this is the effect of the sealing spirit of Baptism added to the Promise and stablishing the weak Faith of this poor infant till it know it selfe to live and declare it to others by the fruits of Regeneration IV. IVSTIFICATION WHich is contrary to the estate of guilt and curse by sin and by this benefit the soul obtains an earnest of quietnesse and peace towards God and that by clearing him and acquitting him at his Tribunall as if she had never offended fully and perfectly A most peculiar bl●ssing contrary to those garboyls and horrors which conscience felt being under wrath as also to that rotten peace which he walked with through error either one or other of these is the state of all justified ones but when as once the soul is set at liberty and discharged by proclamation from these there being no enemy to accuse neither will the Lord hold thy soul gilty but speaks peace to it so that by this means it draws new breth and lives at other tearms of content and complacency then before look what peace and welfare Adams innocency reflected upon him before he sinned that doth Justification cast upon the soul by forgivenes fears are all scattered by this perfect love of God received by Faith no guilt or accusation by sin or any enemies without or within can now take place look how different the sta●e of poor man is when he is molested with suites and put in fear of loosing his whole estate by the wrong of an adversary from that which he feels after he hath got the day and is past all former fears such is the odds between the sinfull and the Justified soul she turns unto her rest as David speaks● and eats drinks sleeps and works in peace that her flesh which was withered and her bones consumed with the scorching h●at of conscience the wound whereof who can bear now returns as the flesh of a little childe hence the holy Ghost never ceaseth to magnifie this benifit as Isa. 57. I create the fruite of the lips peace to him that is neare and afar off it s a work onely belonging to God and above the first creation for the Lord is the onely former of the conscience and therefore its a

see in Courts of men take away all copy holds and buy all free and then the Courts are of small value removes debts and pleas and what should the Kings Bench come to if the Court be down what shall become of the Seargents Writs Arrests Executions Outlaws or fines and forfeits so it is here the Lord J●sus begins with sin and guilt he removes them pays the price the ransome of his blood it makes a satisfaction ●or them to justice and by this means delivers the soul ●rom both the guilt and dominion of sinne the chief thing being gone the rest fall off themselves there i● no place for pleading for sentence for evidence for punis●ment in the fall of the Court all falls whic●●ppertains unto it at once and the soul freed from the one is freed from the other together and fears no Bayliffe no ill conscience no D●vil but beholds all things disabled and cannot hurt we are sould under sin and therefore thereby fear that God will punish the Law Hell will excecute we fear that we shall not believe or repent we think God an enemy fear his wrath and tremble at both law and Gospel as things too pure too sweet rebelling and distrusting both one and other now Christ redeemed us from sin and therefore from all bondage thereto and thereby VIII GLORIFICATION GLorification of the whole man after the R●surrection in Heaven it exceeds Adams happiness consisting in the partaking of that purchased possession of glory and immortali●y not of Paradice upon Earth but in the presence of God this is that benifit which answers the per●ection of Adam though far above it for it shall be a filling up the soul with the perfect Image of God in light and holinesse and that by sight of the glorified sence beholding God as he is holy transform●d by the mirrour of his Majesty to glory so far as our souls and bodies are capable to the uttermost and this b●nefit is the fulnesse of the former it is the execu●ion of the election of God for we were chosen to glorifie it s the perfection of our imperfect union in this life it s the end of our calling for we are called to honour and immortallity it s the fulness of our Adoption for we have here the right but there the inheritance of sons it s also our finall Redemption and sanctification because there all tears shall be wip't awa● and death shall be no more and we shall do the will o● God as the Angels and be sanctified throughout in body● soul and spirit without spot or blemish and so live eternally It is a ●illing vp of ye sole with a perfect Image of God in light holines yt by sight of ye glorified sen●e behold●ing God as he is holey trancs●rmed by ye meror of his magestey from glorey to glo●ey so far as o●r sole bodey are capiable to ye vtmost then shall ye rightiou● shine as ye sun in ye Kingdom of ye father 13 Math 43 Doe men set up their delights in this world and the things which i● affordeth Sun and Moon and Stars and influences of Heaven● brave Cities and dwellings Musick feastings apparell learning and knowledge or to stand before Princes or long life or perfect strength and vigour of body or sweet friends inheritance or liberty or peace or whatsoever lo Heaven hath not one of these to fill her inheritance but all in one for each soul to enjoy ●his other world hath the eternall Son of God to be the light thereof every little Star is as the Moon the Moon as the Sun the Sun seven times greater the Heaven of this third Heaven is made of Cristall for purity the influences thereof is the presence of God there is a perpetuall spring time Summer and the Autumn of delight and fruit far exceeding the happy Islands the City thereof is Ierusalem above built of all precious stones pearls and gold both houses walls gates and pavements their musique is the song of Moses and the Lamb such as conquers sing● their feast is the eating and drinking of a passeover in the kingdome their Ordinances ar● the perpetu●l sacrifice of prayers and thanksgiving joy and Hallelujahs from Sabb●th to Sabb●th uncess●ntly the company thereof is innumerable Angels the souls of just perfect men the generall assembly of the first born the God and Judge of all with Jesus the mediator of the Covenant their apparell is with pure linnen without spot rich robes of Kings and Queens their knowledge shall be as the Angels of God they stand before the face of God their life is immortall without end their bodies sences members in the vigor of age as some think like Christs middle age between thirty and forty glorified and inabled to be incorruptible and to see and enjoy God their friends God the Lamb Angels and Saints their inheritance birth mansion houses and territories not made with hands but immortall and undefiled et●rnall in the Heavens the liberty of it is full redemption the peace of it is the perfection of this peace here which understanding and the joy of it is exaltation so great that that it shall be a perpetuall extasie in respect of this and yet able to containe it selfe and yet which is more that which eye hath not seen or eare heard nor hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive hath God there prepared for those that love him as the saying is there is satiety without fulnesse pleasure without wearinesse eternity without dimention quantity without defect and what not even above all that the most curious or craving man can aske or think The holy Ghost teacheth us to confine this boundlesse glory into these two tearms either an negative or a positive happinesse the former whereof stands in the absence and voydnesse of all which comes short of this or opposeth it a piece of this happinesse stands in this that Paradice upon Earth is gone a created thing is turned into an uncreated that here the misery of mort●llity is swallowed up and abollished sorrow poverty sicknesse shame bo●dage infirmity death wrath enmity curse are removed and all tears wiped away the grace of faith hope pa●ience here our excellency having brought to the door shall take leave of word prayer Sacraments Ordinances betokening weaknes●e shall cease as needlesse things much more corruption and imperfection of Grace even as it was an addition of regret to Dives that h● being afar off saw Lazarus in Abrahams bosome so shall it be a piece of Saint● Heaven that they have passed the second death and vengeance of the wicked as it was Noahs happinesse that he shunned the lot of the old world but the chief happinesse of Heaven is positive when the persons of the elect shall be so inlarged in their souls and bodies and in each facul●y and member thereof as to enjoy and comprehend and behold the Lord perfectly as they are comprehended this is indeed the blessed