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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

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

both unable and unwilling to help himself out of this miserable estate 20 21 There is a fourfold Change and but one saving Change 1. a Moral 2. a Partial 3. a Formal 4. a Spiritual Change 16 to 26 The preparations and qualifications that we are to find in our selves before we lay hold on Christ and the promises 26 27 How Conversion Regeneration Vocation and Repentance agree or differ 28 29 Of the way step by step wherein the Lord doth lead a Soul out of a state of Nature into a state of Grace 29 1. The first step to Conversion is Illumination 29 30 2. The second step is Vocation which is accompanyed with 1. The Faith of Assent 2. Repentance 3. Conversion 4. Regeneration 35 36 37 3. The third step to Conversion is to trust or believe which is accompanied with 1. A looking unto him 2. A comming unto him 3. A receiving of him 4. Laying hold on him 37 to 43 4. The next step for the carrying on and compleating this blessed work there is dropped into the Soul the Spirit of prayer which causeth the Soul chiefly to pray for these three things 1. For more Illumination 2. For pardoning Mercy 3. For purging Mercy 45 46 5. The fifth and last step that I shall name is this the Lord doth cause the Soul secretly to give it self up and surrender all the supposed interest that it had in its self to God that made him and Christ that bought him 49 50 Of Grace-begetting and Soul-converting Ordinances which are 1. Hearing the word preached 2. Reading the Scriptures 3. Frequent and e●●nest prayer 51 to 54 2 Dwell much upon Grace-breeding and Soul-converting promises 54 to 57 3. Frequent the company of Grace-begetting and Soul-converting companions 57 58 59 4. Call to mind and meditate upon Grace-begetting considerations viz. 1. Consider what Christ hath done for us 2. Consider how God hath dealt with other sinners 3. Consider what relation thou hast to him 4. Consider what engagements you have from God 59 to 62 5. Consider in whose name you come before him ibid. 5. Means to gather and treasure up a stock of Grace-begetting and Soul-converting experiences 62 63 64 65 Of the means to be used that is more especially appointed for the confirming sealing and assuring the Soul of Salvation In the use of means take these four cautions 1. Be sure they be means of Gods own appointment 2. It is not the means alone but Gods blessing upon the means that doth help us 3. His Blessing is not dispenced so much according to the means as according to the uprightness of the heart in the use of them 4. Yet we are to wait upon God in the use of means as it is Gods way of Conveyance c. 65 to 73 The want of Conversion is not in God but in our selves 73 74 75 76. Some of the principal hinderances of Conversion 1. Ignorance of our own misery and Gods mercy 2. Men think it to be either a needless or an easie work 3. A total neglect or careless use of means 4. Mens not considering the joyes of Heaven and the torments of Hell 5. False conceits of themselves 6. Too deep a familiarity with bad company 7. Ignorance of the grounds and princ●ples of the Christian Religion 8. And last hinderance is delay 76 to 81 Of the sad condition of all that are not converted 81 Of the privileges and benefits of all that are converted 82 83 1. They are Chists Servants 2. They are his Friends 3. His Brethren 4. His Jewels 5. His Sons and Daughters 6. His Bride and Spouse 7. They are Co-heirs with Christ ibid. The tryals of Conversion by which a man may know whether he be converted yea or no. 83 84 1. He that is converted doth desire the word and means of Grace 2. He is willing to be made willing to do whatsoever the Lord doth cōmand him 3. He is brought unto an unfeigned hatred of the whole body of Sin 4. His greatest conflict is against in ward pollution 5. He mourns for the sins of of others and the want of more grace in himself 6. He doth delight to be speaking of those things which his heart hath taken in in the work of Conversion 7. He doth begin to keep a watch over his own heart 8. He makes Conscience of keeping every known Command 9. He is willing to put himself upon the tryal 10. He hath his Soul renewed in its faculties and vertues 85 86 Cerrain Objections answered which some out of weaknesse and others out of prejudice may be apt to make against the foregoing Discourse 100 The Objections or Queries that are clearly answered are as followeeh Q. IF a people or a person refuse to imbrace the Doctrine and practise the Discipline of the true Religion whether they are not to be forced to receive the one and practise the other yea or no 100 Q. Whether liberty of Conscience be as some say a cursed tolleration or of Divine institution yea or no 101 Q. What is or ought to be the ground of Communion and Fellowship in the Church of Christ 102 Q. Whether there be any preparatory work required of men and women before Conversion and is so what it is ibid. Q. Whether there be not a free will remaining in all the posterity of Adam yea or no 103 Q. Whether Adam by his fall did totally lose every good thing that there was in him yea or no ibid. Q. How came the sin of Adam being but one to become the sin of so many yea of all mankind 104 Q. How could Christ being but one make satisfaction for the sins of so many ibid. Q. What are we to understand by election and reprobation which so many contend about 105 Q. Whether Election be the cause of Salvation and Reprobation the cause of Damnation yea or no 106 Q. Whether Christ hath dyed and tasted death for every man yea or no ibid. Q. How can they have hope to believe whom God hath decreed shall not believe 107 Q. Why doth the most just and righteous God command all men to believe and promise salvation to them that doe believe and threaten damnation to all that doe not seeing it is not in man● power to believe 108 Q. Whether there be not a Light in every man which if improved and walkt up to would lead us to the Gate of Heaven if not into Heaven yea or no 109 Q. How doth it plainly appear that our Acceptation and Salvation is only of Grace and nothing else 111 Q. If Salvation be only of Grace without works in what respect are good works necessary 111 to 116 Q. How shall a man be able to do what is required seeing he is not sufficient of himself so much as to think a good thought 116 119 Q. What is or who is the Object of Faith 120 121 Q. What encouragements or grounds are there to provoke or perswade a people to believe in God 122 124 Q.