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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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Yemans, Anne.
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Wing Y30A; ESTC R222187
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mine and I am his he feedeth among the lilies Cant. 3.16 Christ compareth his Spouse to lilies As the lilly among thorns so is my love among the daughters Cant. 2.2 The lilly is counted the most glorious thing that growes in the field Mat. 6.28 29. Consider the lillies of the field how they grow they toyle not neither doe they spin and yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these This field is all the world and the Saints are these lillies and the other are but thornes Both those that are of the world which is not of Jesus Christ and also that which is in us which is not of Christ are like thorns to keep these lilies from growing and doe what they can to choak this seede of God in us which are these lilies Mat. 13.7 And she compareth her Beloved to an apple-tree As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood so is my beloved among the sons I sate under his shadow with great delight and his fruit was sweet to my tast Cant. 2.3 He is a tree of life which beareth twelve manner of fruits and yieldeth her fruit every moneth Revel 22.2 And here is all pleasant fruit upon it and is never barren and the fruit of this apple-tree wee feede upon and whosoever hath tasted of this fruit doth know that it is very pleasant and after we have tasted of it nothing else wil content us to feed upon but that and this tree is a shadow and refuge against all storms and tempests and here we fit quietly feeding upon him but hee brings us further and leads us into his banqueting-house that he might feed us with all his dainties for they are all prepared for us Cant. 2.4 5 6. He brought me to the banqueting-house and his banner over me was love Stay me with flagons and comfort me with apples for I am sick of love His left hand is under my head and his right hand doth embrace me When he doth feed us with his heavenly dainties and embraceth us with the arme of his love we are not able to containe our selves we are so ravished with him that we are even sicke with love but hee stais us even when wee are sicke for the enjoyment of him before he doth appeare so glorious in us then he stayes us with the flagons of the wine of his Spirit and of those apples some manifestations of himselfe in us to stay and up-hold us And when he is come in that glorious manner in us which wee have so longed for to give us a a possession of himself and to remain in us for ever He doth appear in us so sweets precious and glorious that we are not able to containe it the enjoyment of him fils us so with joy that it makes us sick being we cannot contain it but he doth up-hold us while he doth embrace us enlarging our vessell and so filling us I am my beloveds and his desire is to me Come my beloved let us goe forth into the field let us lodge in the villages Let us get up early to the vine-yard let us see if the vine flourish whether the tender grapes appeare and the pomegranates bud forth there will I give thee my loves The man drakes give a smell and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits new and old which I have laid up for thee O my beloved Cant. 7.10 11 12 13. All his desire is to us and to goe with him to see how the fruits of the Spirit of God doth flourish in us which are his vine-yard or garden He is not contented to feast himself in us but for us to go with him and he to feast us for his whole delight is â—n us Father I will that they also which thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may bebold my glory John 17.24 For all those excellent things that is in him is for us his beloved whether old or new manifestations of his glory in us and all that is in us is for him like the rivers that comes from the Sea and runs to the Sea againe so Christ doth fill us with himselfe and all these streams of himself in us doth wholly flow forth to him We are willing for him to have all the honour glory and praise we are so deeply in love with him that we thinke nothing too deare for him All that is ours is for him yea our lives if he call for them we are sorry that we cannot express our love to him as we would for our bodies are a prison to us but all our love is wholly runne forth to him and his love is the like to us Here is perfect love that casteth out feare 1 John 4.18 This is the love that is as strong as death and it is like fire which hath a most vehement flame Many waters cannot quench love neither can the floods drowne it If a man would give all the substance of his house for love it would be utterly condemned Cant. 8.6 7. And our love is made known in a great high measure one to the other Our beloved is altogether lovely more to be desired than all the things in the world His mouth is most sweet and let him kisse me with the kisses of his mouth for his love is better than wine Out of the mouth commeth the full expression of that love of Christ that is in his heart to us and by his kissing us which is a very high expression of his love to us My beloved it gone downe into his garden to the beds of spices â—o feed in the garden and to gather lillies I am my â—eloveds and my beloved is mine be feedeth among â—he lillies Cant. 6.2 3. I am come into my garden my sister my Spouse I have gathered my myrrhe with my spice I have eaten my honey-comb with my â—oney I have drunke my wine with my milke Eate O friends drinke ye drinke abundantly O beloâ—ed Here hee doth feast himselfe with the â—weet fruits of his Spirit in us that is compaâ—ed to all precious fruits which grow upon â—his tree of life Christ in us He saith I will â—oe up to the palm-tree I will take hold of the â—oughes thereof now also thy breasts shall be as cluâ—ters of the vine and the smel of thy nose like apples And the roofe of thy mouth like the best wine for â—y beloved that goeth downe sweetly causing the â—ips of those that are asleep to speake Cant. 7.8 â— Here doth Christ set forth what excellent â—ruits here is in this garden which he doth gaâ—her and feeds upon it Her breasts shall be as â—he clusters of the vine and that vine is Christ â—ohn 15. and that is the breast that she is nouâ—ished by And the roofe of thy mouth is like the â—est wine Out of our mouths is uttered â—orth the praise glory and excellency of our â—eloved and this wine is for our beloved
hither Rev. 4.12 After this I looked and behold a doore was open in heaven and the first voyce which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me which said Come up hither and I will shew thee things that must be hereafter And immediately I was in the Spirit and behold a Throne was set in heaven and one sate on the Throne And being in the Spirit he comes to see it then after hee hath showne himselfe to us he shows us Anti-christ which is called the great Whore because we all commit spirituall fornication with her and here is a carrying us up higher in the Spirit to see her And there came one of the seven Angels which had the seven Vials and talked with me and saying unto me Come hither I will tell thee the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carryeth her I will shew unto thee the judgement of the great Whore Rev. 17.17 And then after he hath shewed us the mysterie of the Whore and her destruction then he shews us the marriage of the Church to Christ in the mysterie in his glory And there came unto me one of the seven Angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues and talked with me saying Come hither I will shew thee the Bride the Lambs wise And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountaine and shewed me that great Citie the holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God having the glory of God Rev. 21.9 10 11. So we are carried up higher and hiher into God by the Spirit of God revealing the things of God in us and when the Spirit of God doth shew us God sitting upon his Throne in his glory in such a measure as we are enabled to see him then he shewes us Anti-christ in his glory or the Whore in her glory for it is one and the same as Christ and his Church is Christ being the head and his Church the body so Anti-christ which is the Devill transformed to an Angel of light is the head 2 Cor 11.14 and his seede in us all is the body which is called the Whore and she doth appeare very glorious And the woman was arraied in purple and scarlet-colour and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls Rev. 17.4 like the church of God the Lambs wife and without the Spirit of God doth shew us the difference betwixt her and the Church of God we do not know her from the Church of God for she is in the wildernesse where the Church of God is Rev. 17.3 So he carried me in the Spirit into the wildernesse and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-coloured beast full of names of blasphemie having seven heads and ten horns By seeing the beast that she sitteth upon which doth beare her up and this beast doth ascend out of the bottomlesse pit Revel 11.7 Wee come to know her from the Church of God And there appeared a great wouder in heaven a woman cloathed with the Sun and the Moone under her feet and upon her head a crown of twelve Stars And she being with child crying travelling in birth and pained to be delived This woman is the Church of God and is said lo be in heaven that is in Christ for hee is the perfect heaven and she is cloathed with Christ which is the Sonne of righteousnesse and all things that are below him is under her feete And she hath a crowne of twelve stars the glory of Christ that did appeare by that Doctrine that was taught by the twelve Apostles of Christ for the Preachers of the Gospel are called stars Rev. 1.20 Shee hath the glory of Christ and is cloached with him and he is with her and in her yet she saw it not hee had not manifested himselfe to her She was as it were with childe with him and in great paine desiring to have him brought forth to her that shee mighe see him as hee is and have the enjoyment of him and no sooner did this woman appear but there appeared another wonder in heaven And behold a great red Dragon having seven heads and tenne bornes and seven crowns upon his head and hee stood before the Woman which was ready to be delivered for to devoure her childe as soone as it was delivered Thus Anti-christ labours to devoure Christ as soon as he is brought forth in us appearing to us like unto Christ And there was warre in heaven Michael and his Angels sought against the Dragon and the Dragon sought and his Angels and prevailed not neither was their places found any more in heaven And the great dragon was cast out that old Serpent called the Devill and Satan which deceives the whole world hee was cast out into the earth and his Angels were cast out with him Here is the Devill made known to us how he is in heavenly places fighting against Christ but Christ hath overcome him and cast him out of his heavenly shape that hee shall not be able to overcome us He is called a red Dragon and a scarlet-coloured beast because hee persecutes and destroyes the Church of God and this Beast is spoken of in many places of the Revelations and the woman that sits upon it is the glory and seeming excellency of Antichrist and she also is cloathed with scarlet-colour which is persecution Though shee be cloathed in the most glorious manner as can be with gold and precious stones and pearls like the glory of Christ yet this is but to deceive us And she hath in her hand a golden cup full of abhominations and filthinesse of her fornication Being shee appeares so glorious to us like unto Christ and the cup that shee giveth us to drinke of appeareth so pure and glorious which maketh us not to question it but thinke that it is the cup of salvation So we drinke of her abhominationr and commit spiritual fornication with her and she sitteth upon all people multitudes and tongues and nations Rev. 17. Shee domineereth over us all and she is carried on swiftly in her abominations upon the backe of the Beast which was full of names of blasphemie which blasphemeth the name of God and ways of God And he hath seven heads perfection of wisdome he knows all the wayes of God and hee transformeth himselfe to the likentsse of them all And hee hath tenne hornes to persecute withall and he makes use of them so farre as God suffereth him and he hath all wayes to decive us in appearing like a Lamb to us having two hornes like a Lamb but speaking like a Dragon Rev. 13.11 and also appearing like Prophets in us Revel 16.13 14. And I saw three uncleane spirits like frogs comming out of the mouth of the Dragon and out of the mouth of the Beast and out of the mouth of the false Prophet For they are the spirit of Devills working miracles And the Lord doth make the wayes of Anti-christ appeare