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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

his house from all thieves and intruders he makes laws and wrights them in their hearts so that as the wife is the glasse of her husbands purposes will and affections answering him as the face doth the face in water so doth the Church answer Christs ruling her not withstanding her disquieting with old tirany of corruption in the world whatsoever influence power or authority any had either civill matrimoniall or of family can bear over their body or the soul over the naturall body that may be said of this Lord who is Father of all the families of his Church Husband of his Spouse Lord of his subjects the soul of his body to act direct defend provide for and be all in all to her till he bring her to glory as a principle union causeth communion so doth he communicate himself all his wisdome humblenesse holinesse experience to her imparts himself to her as her needs are in her streigts he is her redemption in her fears peace by justification in her complaint of corruption her sanctification to mortifie her renew her and so of the rest this is to make her an habitation to himself by the spirit not now and then to come stranger like or upon pleasure as to a banquet house for a day but to walk in the midst of her to chase away all distempers and to allow her to walk before him in and out as his own receiving honour from her as the brightnesse of his image and affording to her protection for his own glory It is true all hang bies and time-servers who have it at their tongues end they are Gods and they shall be saved how few soever they are but they cannot prove it by any ingrafting of union no plucking off from the old stock appears in them no planting into a new no life of grace no Christ to be theirs no bringing to God by his flesh and the union of it to God no promise to fasten upon by which there may come one spirit of God to be between them and God and to unite both as the spirit knit the soul and body in one so faith to handfast them to marry them to cut off their old seperation to forgive and reconcile them and to restore them by the union of favour acceptance and life to the union of Gods Image his qualities and holiness away you counterfeits this rule argues that you are none of the Lords because old union continues can a twig live in two stocks at once if it cleave to the one must it not renounce the other therefore tremble ye are still cut off as branches that withereth and are as yet none of Gods but in the gall of bitternesse Regeneration The infant that is born doth not mor● beray ye na●urall li●e by weaping breathing feading sleaping then the li●e of a beleuing sole once brought forth apea●s in ye operation and wor●kes of ye new creature fo● that by prou●●ing one the as drey bones breath enters into them and they liue 37 Ezekell 4 III. REGENERATION THe begetting of the soul to God which is none of his before the other be an instamping of the Image of God really in the soul Most men quite omit to oversee this Regeneration of faith and begetting the soul to God thinking there is no Regeneration save only renewing of the will and changing of the corrupt nature of old Adam from bad to good so hereby they grow to this absurd error namely to imagin that whencesoever any duty of mortification or holinesse is urged by and by and without any more adoe they are the parties spoken to and s● of themselves can mortifie their own lusts cease to swear lye or blaspheam Most eminent is that of Tit. 3. 5 6. According to his mercy he saved us by the washing of Regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost which h● shed on us abundantly through Christ our Saviour that being justified by his grace we might be made heirs of life who seeth not an evident Regeneration of the soul unto God to be wrought before renewing of Gods Image A like place is that of I●mes 1. 18. Of h●s own will he beg it us that w● might be a k●nde of his first fruits of the creation What is this first fruits the early work of faith creating the soul again to God and giving it the birth right of the first born beloved and accepted of God by the word and faith which is the instrume●t of the spirit by which Paul had begotten them to God The word presents to the soul her losse of God not in a few beams or rayes of his but his whole divine nature life and being life we know is the excellency of being things thar are without life are in a sort esteemed not to be and those creatures that have a kinde of life without motion and sence although they have a growing life yet are but half subsisting as trees and plants a Gnat in respect of her life is a more excellent creature then a Cedar the porest cripple is of more excellent nature then the goodliest Elephant a reasonable being and life exceeds a sensable life as much as a sensable exceeds a naturall or vegetable how much more then doth a divine and spirituall being exceed a reasonable if a mere supernaturall life of common in lightning and knowledg of Gods revealed will which is but a quality doth so much exceed reason as the spirit of an Angel exceeds that spiri● of a godly man how much more then doth a spirituall life and being of a beleiver exceed a supernaturall life of knowledge alone all which I speak to shew that Adam lost when he lost the spirituall being of his Creation the Image life and nature of him that created him after his own pattern This losse of our being and true life of God the Lord by his Law presents life to that son●e in which he purposes to quicken up his second life of grace by the Lord Jesus that quickning Spirit 1 Cor. 15. By this loss man is stript and deprived of the glory of God that is that excellent beauty and honour which that life of God did reflect upon him so that Iacob said of Re●ben Thy dignity is gone I say not that sin hath bereft man of his being but that divinenesse of being sustained hi● reasonable nature in a most firm manner of subsisting so that there is a desolation of this Image and nothing left save the bare ruines of a frame without beauty or amiablenes He is become a meer emptinesse a Chaos and dunghill of confusion the very relicks of himself even as the sad and dismall earth being bereft of the Sun and influences of Heaven differs from the sweet season of May or the summer wherein she is clad with all her beauty It is a sad sight to see a Carkas●e voyd of life and breath of man but to see such a Carkasse as wants life to creep and breath and stink in the

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

who before was our deadly adversary the soul which was before an enemy to God and by him denounced persued and outlawed cut off from the liberty and protection of a subject is now by this means restored againe to love and amity as if never any traitor before i●s now become the Lords Hephsiba his delightfull one amiable one his favourite and fri●nd in most inward manner yea received into dearest account and acceptation for from hence issueth a Covenant of God made with the soul and the soul with him Deare brethren break into leagues and swear brotherhood surely the Lord loves his with his heart as his own ●oul his Covenant with them is most firm everlasting an absalute Covenant for its establis●ed in the blood of the Covenant which to day yesterday and for ever holds firme and sure by vertue of this Covenant he is not a●hamed of us but vouchsafeth us to be his Deut. 25. 17 18 19. The Lord hath avouched yee this day to be his peculiar people as ●e hath promised yee c. As the Lord disclaimed us and disowned us in Adam so by the reconciliation of the second Adam he vouchsafeth and acknowledgeth us to be his and hence all the names and titles in Scripture of dearnesse and peculiarnesse of belovednesse of faire ones Doves undefiled such as in whose love the King can delight his Ammi and Ruhama his Jewels and secret precious ones and the like Hence our behaviour and course becomes acceptable as Ab●ls Sacrifice for his persons sake was accepted so that in all our services● allegeance we are well pleasing through him in whom first God was well pleased and that not in one act or two of special nature but in all our course in our walking in and out with him as a favourite with his Prince yea he loves us not the worse for our blemishes but covers them and looks upon us as his upon his own gifts not our shame saying Thou art black yet comely so that he can content himsel●e in us when as our in●irmities are many and great as a lover who cannot espy any indeficient thing face gestures speech carriages of her whom he loves Hence also flow the most excellent favours of his spirit conferred upon us that he might the more take pleasure in us as the Bridegroom doth in his Bride Spouse whom he hath adorned hence are those habilliments of the ring the shooes the robe the fat Calfe brought forth for the reconciled prodigall hence those pearls wherewith the Lord inricheth his married Bride Hos. 2. 19. I will betroth thee to me in righteousn●s judgement loving kindnesse and mercy These are the Jewels of highest price which the Lords treasure can afford humblenesse meeknesse the clean linnen of innocency purenesse uprightnesse love tendernes contrary to her filthy raggs which he takes from her and all that he might joy in her nay I might say that Reconciliation is the true ground of a Church it selfe and a body of the Saints at lest the beauty of a Church If Uni●n be the ground Reconciliatition is that which affords lustre and beauty to it The all-sufficiency of God as a fountaine is set open by this ●luce of Reconciliation for hereby the Lord can beteam the soul all support and all that is needfull for this and a better life as we see inward friends will strip themselves ere they will let one another want and this all-●ufficiency reacheth to soul and body all things are yours as you are Christs and Christ Gods we see Princes delight in casting royall favours upon favourites nothing falls beside them hence are the boons of all spirituall prerogatives of Saints of all the Ordinances of God bestowed upon his Church Paul Apollo Cephas all gifts and all administration are cast upon them to serve for their good preaching and all her efficacious Sacraments and all their sealing powers Communion of Saints and the like the secrets of his will hid to others hence also are all earthly blessings which the good will of him who dwelleth in the bush can confer all are theirs posession and right and made pure unto them marriage with her blessing is their credit love esteem wellfare and riches long life and good dayes their dwellings posterities and the like they may say they are all mine given me of God nay although they be common favours even in these they tast a peculiarnesse the ungodly finde all blessing● to be common the godly tast a peculiarnesse in the common●st their sleep is sweet unto them their health is precious and they can visit their house with joy the enmity of the whole frame is reduced to an amity with them there is a league made with Heaven Earth and Hell that nothing shall hurt them Heaven shall not be as brasse nor the Earth as iron the beasts of the field shall be at league enemies shall turn friends because their ways please God diseases plagues famines death shall not hurt them no afflictions shall sting them as a fiery dart but as sent in love and from very faithfulnesse for good Psal. 119. Hos. 2. yea and I will hear the Heavens and they shall hear the Earth and the Earth shall hear the corn and the wine and the oyle and they shall hear Jezerel Most excellent is that in Col 1. 20. That Christ hath brought all shattered peeces of the world together againe into one head glory to God and good will towards men and peace on Earth Reconcliation reacheth to this He discovers himselfe to such a soul that he hath offered to her a price of Reconciliation even the blood of the Covenant not onely to compound and mitigate some extremities of enmities but even to abolish it all and nail it to his Crosse this ransome sati●fies Justice for all the damages and affronts given to Gods Majesty this breaks down the wall of separation and cansells the records of Heaven wherein all our rebellions were written and all those curses which God denounces against such that perfect agreement might be made not raking the dunghill of our corruptions to pick out inditements but cutting off all quarrels and establishing a Law of forgetting them and Covenant of amity for ever with the soul Reconciliation fastens the offer of being reconciled to God upon ●his poor soul by the instrument of faith the best make-peace that ever was which faith overpowers the enmity of the soul by the exercise of amity and mercy in God and as it were compells it to be reconciled she apprehendeth so much compassion in the bosome of God as to drownd all enmity ●herein as in the bottome of the Sea and so to kisse the Son swear allegance and come in This have I said of the way to attain this benefit of Reconciliation somewhat more largely that by this other benifits may be conceived both by Ministers in their manner of handling and by private Christians in the savour of applying these priviledges which if

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