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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67808	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.	Yemans, Anne.	1648 (1648)	Wing Y30A; ESTC R222187	125,255	256

how for sins of ignorance And ch 6. there is a sacrifice to be offered for sins willingly And c. 16. there is what is to be offered for the sins of the Priest and how and so along that booke it speaks much of sacrifices for the sins of the people Heb. 9.22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood and without shedding of blood is no remission So Christe blood was the Red Sea that they did passe through to come out of their spirituall bondage which they had brought themselves in by obeying the Devill And they saw him darkly through sacrifices and ordinances and ceremonies which were but shadowes of things to come but the substance is Christ and they were not to depend upon their sacrifices but upon Christ It pleased the Lord to lead them in this dark way shewing himselfe to them by degrees as was most to his glory yet there was more light shewed to them then was revealed before them in the Prophets There he shewes himselfe clearly to them what he would doe for them and what he was to them and his exceeding great love to them which in the fulnesse of time he did come and performe it Thus they waited a long time having but a little hope of him still looking for his comming in the flesh and desiring his comming and yet willing to wait his time And at the the last he did come and finish all things for the salvation of their soules and made full satisfaction to his Father for all sins and not for theirs only but for the sins of the whole world for all that was from Adam to the end of the world Man had sinned therefore man must suffer and it must be one that was without sin for one that had sinne could not make satisfaction neither could man as man but it must be God in man or else he could not make satisfaction to God and it must be man too or else he could not suffer so he must be a middle person betwixt God and man that must make satisfaction to God for man So God sent his only Sonne out of his bosome to take our nature upon him and he was able to make full satisfaction to his Father for all man-kind at once So the Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all Isa 53.6 God hath laid our sins upon Christ and he was willing to take them so our sinnes being laid upon Christ he is become the debter and we are set at liberty our sins are all laid upon Christ so God requires the full debt to be paid alone by him He hath nothing to say or doe against us because Christ hath undertaken to make full satisfaction to God for us and he cannot nor will not require it of Christ and us too 2 Cor. 5.18 19 21. All things are of God who hath reconciled us to himselfe by Jesus Christ God was in Christ reconcising the world unto himselfe not imputing their trespasses unto them For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him Isa 53.4 5. Surely hee hath born our griefes and carried our sorrows yet we did esteeme him stricken smitten of God and afflicted But he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with hi● stripes we are healed so all along that chapte● it speaks what Christ suffered for us Hos 13 14. I will ransome them from the power of th● grave I will redeeme them from death O death I will be thy plagues O grave I will be thy destruction repentance shall bee hid from mine eye● 1 Cor. 15.54 55 56 57. Death is swallowe● up in victory O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory The sting of death is sin an● the strength of sinne is the Law But thanks 〈◊〉 to God which giveth us the victory through o●● Lord Jesus Christ In Hosea he saith I wil 〈◊〉 it it is he alone that will doe it but now he● tel you 't is already done Death is swallow● up in victory and this is the death that is spoken of in Gen. 2.17 And Christ hath gotte● victory over it for us Hee is made perfect 〈◊〉 us through suffering he was perfect in himselfe before but not for us but now he 〈◊〉 perfect for us I shall shew you how Chri●● was made perfect for us through suffering 〈◊〉 was made perfect for us 3. wayes First By the fulfilling of the whole La● for us Secondly By making full satisfaction f●● the sins of the world Thirdly He hath purchased of his Fath●● all things both spirituall and temporall for us I shall shew you of the two first and let the other alone till afterwards For the first Christ hath fulfilled the whole Law for us Man was commanded to doe it and there was a great curse lay upon him if he did not doe it Cursed is every one that doth not all things that are written in the book of the Law Gal. 3.10 For whosoever shall keepe the whole Law and yet offend in one point he is guilty of all Jam. 2.10 And man he could not doe it so Christ he comes and performes the whole law perfectly for us Mat. 5.17 Thinke not that I am come to destroy the Law or the Prophets I am not come to destroy but to fulfill For verily I say unto you till heaven and earth passe one jot or tittle shall in no wise passe from the Law till all be fulfilled And Christ is the end of the Law for righteousnesse to every one that believeth and he hath fulfilled every jot and tittle of the Law for us for he did undertake to fulfill the whole Law for us to purchase a perfect righteousnesse for us by his fulfilling the Law for us It behoves us saith Christ to fulfill all righteousnesse And which of you can taxe me of sin so his righteousnesse is a perfect righteousnesse there is not any imperfection in it the Lord hath not any thing to say against it and this is for us Christ our righteousnesse 1 Cor. 1.30 Ye are in Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us wisdome and righteousnesse and sanctification and redemption Thus Christ hath fulfilled the whole Law for us Now I shall shew you how Christ hath made full satisfaction to his Father for our sins and that he did by suffering the whole wrath of God for the sins of the whole world I have a baptisme to be baptized withall and how am I streightned till it be accomplished which was his suffering He was to drinke off that bitter cup of the whole wrath of God wrung out by the hand of Gods vengeance to drink the dregs of it for our sinnes that was laid upon him And now you shall see how Christ complaines of this wrath of God that lay so heavy upon him John 12.27 Now is my soule

many places of Scripture yet none of them kept them out of the Land of Canaan which was a type of heaven but only unbelief And this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darkenesse rather then light John 3.19 Christ hath obtained of his Father a full pardon for all the sins of the world and a perfect righteousnesse and heaven and spirituall and temporall things and it is kept in store for us in Christ all the spirituall things are till wee doe really believe what Jesus Chri●● hath done for us in particular and he woul● have his love made knowne to the world tha● they might believe and then hee will mak● known to them that their sins are pardoned and how great his love is to them and wh●● hee hath purchased for them and what the● are in him And although there remaines s●● in the conversation yet sin in the conscien●● is done away The blood of Christ which throug● the eternall spirit offered himselfe without spo●● purge your consciences from dead workes to ser●● the living God Heb. 9.14 And he speaking i● the 9th verse of this chapter and verse 2. of th● 10th chapter of the sacrifices in the time of th● Law there was offered gifts and sacrifices tha● could not make holy concerning the conscience of him that did the service for if it could would they not then have ceased to have bee● offered because that that the offerers onc● purged should have had no more sine in thei● conscience but those sacrifices could not take away sin in the conscience Heb. 9.24 25 26. For Christ is not entered into the holy places ma●● with hands which are the figures of the true bu● into heaven itselfe now to appeare in the prese●● of God for us Nor yet that he should offer himself● often as the high Priest entereth into the holy pl●●● every yeare with blood of others For then must often have suffered since the foundation of the world but now once in the end of the world hath be appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himselfe And it is he alone that can and will sanctifie us in our conversation Let us draw neer with a true heart in assurance of faith sprinkled in our hearts from an evill conscience and washed in our bodies with pure water Heb. 10.22 Christ shed both water and blood John 19. ●4 His blood for to sprinkle our conscience from evill works that so they shall not damn us and water to purge and sanctifie us in our conversation that sin shall be mortified in us and we shall walke in obedience to God And this Christ hath done for all and would have all know it that they all might come to Christ and be saved For be tasted death for-every man Heb. 2.9 And be dyed for all that they that live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him that dyed for them and rose again 2 Gor. 5.15 Christ not only dyed and was buried but hee also rose from the dead which doth declare unto us that hee hath gotten the victory over the spirituall death for us he triumphed over it for us Death is swallowed up in victory O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Chris● 2 Cor. 15.54 55 56 57. So Christ hath done all things for thee an● hath made way for to goe to God by him J●sus said I am the way the truth and the life ●man commeth to the Father but by me John 1● 6. And now he makes a generall proclamat●on for all to come unto him and he will gi●● them life for their life is hid in him and they doe not come unto him they shall dye● their sins and the Lord saith As I live I wi●● not the death of a sinner Isa 55.1 2 3. Ho ev●●● one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and 〈◊〉 that hath no money come ye buy and eat yea com● buy wine and milke without money and with●●● price Wherefore doe ye spend money for that whi●● is not bread and your labour for that which sati●fieth not hearken diligently unto me and ea●● ye that which is good and let your soule delight selfe in fatnesse Encline your eare and come un●me heare and your soule shall live and I wi●● make aneverlasting Covenant with you even t●● sure mercies of David The waters that we are invited to come 〈◊〉 to is Christ he is the water of life John 4 1● And he calls all to come without any worth nesse of their owne though they are never 〈◊〉 great sinners let them come let them not ke●● back because they are great sinners but ther●fore let them come for he dyed for their sins ●nd if they come unto him he will give them a ●ardon for their sins their sinnes cannot be too great for him to pardon and doe not stay for ●ualification to come to Christ for there is ●o qualification out of Christ but come unto him and he will qualifie thee there is no vessel so unclean but the blood of Christ wil cleanse ●t And saith Christ Those that come to me I will ●●n no wise cast away and that wine and milk is Christ John 15.1 I am the Vine that brought forth those grapes that this wine came of and he was pressed in the wine-pres of the wrath of God for us to drinke of the fruit of it And as it is the nature of wine to comfort strengthen and refresh those that are ready to faint So it is with this spirituall wine Christ whosoever hath tasted of him it comforts him exceedingly and when they are ready to faint through the sence of their sins this wine refreshes them and strengthens them against the Devils temptations and their owne sins and this milke is to feede those that are babes in Christ I have fed you with milke and not with meate for bitherto ye were not able to beare it 1 Cor. 3.2 For every one that useth milke is unskilfull in the word of righteousnesse for he is a babe Heb. 5.13 So Christ is this milke that feeds those that are babes in him he is their nourishment and hee revealeth his love to them by degrees and 〈◊〉 are babes at the first and grow by degrees be men in Christ and hee leades them acco●ding Wherefore doe ye spend money for that whi●● is not bread you spend a great deale of cost paines to get a righteousnesse of your own a●● so feede upon that but that is not bread th●● is but ashes that will not nourish thee b●● wildo thee more harm than good Christ sait● He is the bread of life John 6.48 This is 〈◊〉 bread which came downe from heaven that a m●● may eate of it and not dye I am the living bre●● which came downe from heaven if any man