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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

found in his own righteousness but in Christs righteousness all the rest he accounts as dung 10. He that is born again or truly converted hath his soul renewed in its faculti●s and vertues when the Lord made man in his own image Gen. 1. 26 27. Gen. 9. 6. which image of God in man consisteth not in any bodily shape but in the nature of the soul as it is a spiritual and immortal substance indued with three faculties Understanding Will and Memory as the Deitie hath three Father Sonne and Holy Ghost this image of God in man by his fall was defaced which by regeneration is again restored and renewed 1. In its faculties 2. In its senses 3 In its vertues 1. In its faculties 1. Understanding 2. Will. 3. Memory 1. The Understanding that by the fall was darkened is now again by regeneration ●nlightened Ephes 5. 8. Compared with Ephes 1. 18. 2. The Will that was inthralled is now renewed by which it doth choose the good and reject the evil 3. The Memory that since the fall of Man would forget the good that it should have reteyned and retein the evill that it should forget is now restored so as to treasure up spiritual things and let slip carnal things The Conscience which is Gods Deputy in man that did cease to do his Office being seared with an hot Iron 1 Tim. 4. 2. is now awakened and sits as Judge overall your Actions accusing in one thing excusing in another now if Conscience he not a Bridle it will be a Whip if it be not a Curb i● will be a Scourge if you will not hear the Warnings you shall feel the Lashes if it doth not restrain from Sin by admonition it will put u● to pain in sin by Contrition The Senses also they come to be exercised Heb. 5. 14. to discern both good and evil the Sense of Hearing is frequently exercised in hearing the joyfull sound and the Sense of Seeing is exercised in beholding the wonderfull works of God and the Sense of Smelling is exercised smelling a sweet savour in Christ and all his wayes and so for the rest of the Senses they are ever now and then exercised about spiritual things The Vertues of the Soul or graces of the Spirit they begin also to be employ●d about matters of great concernment viz. Faith endeavours to believe and lay hold on God for what he hath promised Hope anchors upon the promise and waits with patience for a supply of all its wants Love is exerci●●d in loving of God his Ordinances and People and sometimes in doing good to his enemies Prudence i● a ver●●● whereby we foresee how things ar● to be done in respect of time place and m●nner and what will be the event of each b●siness which is undertaken prudence in our hearts to guide our thoughts and in our mouths to order our speeches it is prudence in the evils of sin to choose none and in the evils of punishment to choose the lesser 2 Sam. 24. 12. Another Vertue which begins to be exercised is Temperance which moderates our desires and brings the Appetite under a rule of reason then Constancy or Perseverance is another Vertue whereby a man is resolved to persevere to the end in the knowledge profession and worship of God Justice is another Vertue which giveth every man his due it binds us to give due to God to our Parents and Kindred and to exercise Verity and Equity in all that we do lo what a wonderfull change is here yet notwithstanding all this the Soul is the same after conversion as it was before and so it shall be after the resurrection the same there being the same faculties only thus changed the Soul is renewed and restored to its primitive institution and so its purity and blessednesse is or shall be greater than ever it was before c. Thus the Regenerate doth partake of another begetting of another birth of another nature that a man should be the same and not the same the same man for Body yet as different in quality as if another soul did dwell in the same body he of a lyon i● become a lamb of a wolfe a sheep of a Saul a Paul of a persecuter a friend of the persecuted here is a blessed change indeed Wouldst thou know whether thou art regenerated art thou one whom God hath enlightned art thou one whom he hath called art thou one who art washed purged renewed sanctyfied examine thy heart throughly deceits lie low and false evidence is the fruit of a slight search Art thou one whose heart is taken with Christ when God delights in us thereupon we come to delight in him God knows us and thereupon we come to know him John 10. 14. God apprehends us and thereupon we come to apprehend him he chuseth us and thereupon we chuse him he loves us and therefore we love him 1 John 4. 19. his heart is taken with us and thereupon we come to be taken with him take thy evidences from the carriage of thy spirit neither at the best nor at the worst but the middle way which is most thy frame for if thou look upon thy self at the worst thou mayst be discouraged if at the best thou mayst be deceived neither judg of thy self by particular actions but look upon the universal frame and ben● of thy spirit art thou heavy laden with the weight of thy offences dost thou groan under the yoak and tyrannie of manifold temptations Come unto me saith Christ I will refresh the Mat. 11. 28. Doest thou thirst after the wayes of grace loe I am the living spring saith Christ Come drinks h●r● is my blood that was shed for many for the remission of sinnes are the wounds of thy transgressions so deep that they ●annot be searched or so old that they corrupt and pur●fie loe here is the good Samaritan that will either eind them up or powr in oyle and wine are there any seeds of true life began is there any motion of repentance in thy soul will thy pulse of remorse heat a little hast thou but a touch of sorrow a spark of contrition a grain of faith a drop of self denyal surely he that hath began this good work will finish it Philip. 1. 6. Surely he will more and more inform thy mind conform thy will reform thy life and tran●form the whole man into the likeness of the heavenly patterne a man that is born again may be weak in respect of life in whom the spirit breath● though feintly whose pulse beats but feebly whose heart pants after Christ but weakly in whom Christ who is the wisdome of the father shines though through many clouds very dimly who indeed re●●ives Christ and his free g●●●● though with a shaking hand who hopes that Christ will not cast him off though not sure he will take him up he hath a desire to fear the name of the Lord h● hath a willing mind 2 Cor. 8. 12 and this is