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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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1648
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Wing Y30A; ESTC R222187
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eate of it yeâ shall not surely dye God did not love youâ and therefore he would not have you eate oâ it and faith ye shall dye if ye eate of it But believe me I doe tell ye the truth and I speakâ in love you shall not dye but you shall be as God knowing good and evill And who is it thaâ would not be in that condition if they could and this is the way to bring them to it and iâ is an easie way and pleasant to eate of the fruiâ âf a tree that is a small matter thou needst âot feare that will doe thee no harme Thus âhe Devill first accuseth God to the woman âo make way for the tempting of her that so âe might the better prevaile with her with his âemptations So shee listned to him and beâeved him what hee said and did eate of the ââuit and did give to her husband and be eate ââso Thus they believed the Devill in all things ând thought God to be their Enemie and âo be a lyer in all things Thus they forsook God and made the Devill their God in obeyââg him and in doing this thing they commit ââl manner of sinne and we were in their loins ând sinned with them and of all sinnes God âost complaines of Idolatry and here was âis sin in a high degree to forsake God and âould not believe him nor obey him but beâeved the Devill and obeyed him who was âods enemie and the eyes of them both were opeââd they knew that they were noked And vers Their eies were opened to see their miseraââe condition that they had brought themââlves into Before they eate of it they knew âothing but good and they were not contenâd with this but they would know evill too ââd the eating of this forbidden fruit brought ââem to know nothing else but evill so now they know good and evill And this aggravated their misery to know what a good condâtion then they were in and now what a feaâfull condition they had brought themselves in to And when the Lord came into the gardeâ and called to Adam then they ran away anâ hid themselves after they had sinned thâ were affraid of God that kept them from thâ sweete communion of God which beforâ they eate of that fruit they did enjoy and hâ was their full happinesse but now they weâ affraid he should see them and they did whaâ they could to hide themselves from him bâ yet he found them out And hee said unto tâ man hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I coâmanded thee that thou shouldst not eate And tâ man said the woman whom thou gavest to ãâã with me she gave me of the tree and I did eaâ Gen. 3.11 12. Here the man doth what he can to excuââ himselfe and laid the fault on the woman ãâã was shee that gave it me and he blames Goâ for giving the woman to him It was the woâ man that thou gavest me it was she that gave ãâã me If thou hadst not given me the womaâ I had not eaten it for it was through hâ meanes that I did it if thou hadst not give me her I had not eaten it And the Lord Gââ said unto the woman what is this that thou hâ done thou dost not know what a miserable condition thou hast brought upon your selves and your posterity for ever For by this thing doing you have lost all your happinesse both spirituall and temporall and procured all manner of spirituall and temporall judgments both here and hereafter For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die And the Woman said the Serpent beguiled me he told me that I should not die but wee should be as God knowing good and evill or else I had not eate it So she excused her selfe and laid the fault on the Serpent And the Lord God said unto the Serpent because thou hast done this thou art cursed and I will put enmity betweene thee and the woman and betweene thy seed and her seed It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heele Gen. 3.13 14 15. The Devill hath got an interest in all mankind by their listning to him and believing of him and obeying him they made him their God And man being in this fearefull condition by the Devils getting an interest in him is led by him to doe what hee would have him to doe and there is no remedie to be found by man For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou must dye eternally For the wages of sinne is death Rom. 6.23 The soule that sinnes it shall dye Ezek. 18.4 There could be no way found out by maâ nor any thing in man that could make satisfâction for those sins that they had committed but God hath found out a way he hath fouâ out a sufficient ransome to redeeme thee froâ the wrath of God and the cruelty of the Dâvill and sinne and heil which is the Sonneâ God which was to take flesh upon him anâ he was to be born of a woman and he was ãâã make full satisfaction to his Father for all oâ sins And this is the feede of the woman thâ would breake the Serpents head Which seedâ Christ Gal. 3.16 And God was well pleasâ with man-kind looking upon them in Chriââ what he had undertaken for them and in thâ fulness of time he was to come and perform iâ and it was already done in his account Anâ this the Lord made known to Adam but hâ had not a cleere knowledge of this but it wâ typified to him in sacrifices Gen. 4.4 And ãâã made knowne these things to them in a darâ way by degrees as was to his glory and theâ good and so all along the olde Testament ãâã was typified to them in sacrifices and ordinaâces and ceremonies still in a darke way yââ a more clearer manifestation of him then bâfore but all along it speaks of sacrifices anâ without there wââ nothing to be done Thâ were to offeâ Peace-offerings Levit. 3. ãâã And if his Oblation be a sacrifice of Peace-offering if he offer it of the herd whether it be a male or female he shal offer it without blemish before the Lord And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering and kill it at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation Aarons sons the Priests shal sprinkle the blood upon the Altar round about This was their Peace-offering it was to make their peace with God which sacrifice was a type of Christ for he was the true sacrifice that then was to make peace for man-kinde to his Father and his blood was shed to sprinkle our hearts or wash our hands from dead workes to serve the living God Therefore was the sacrifices commanded to put them in remembrance of Christ which was the substance and he which they typified and for every sin almost there was to be sacrifices as in Lev. 4. al along the Chap. there it speaks what must be offered and