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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

they were rightly discerned great light would appear not onely in the offer of Christ but even in all the new Testament which runs still upon one or other of these Adam and the Lord fell out and their enmity was as the bars of a Pallace but now by this Reconciliation they become nearer then ever this Covenant is eternall as the Rainbow it walks without fear of any preminary or Out lary from God wheresoever it goes yea his very affections shall be no mark of his wrath for all whom God loveth he chasteneth Crosses and Covenants doe not interfere but even then a soul may say thy Covenant is sure mercy O Lord thou hast afflicted me in very mercy Psal. 119. If I sin thou wilt chasten me with the rod of men but thy loving kindnesse thou wilt never remove thy league is not as the league of sworn brethren in evill as Simeon and Levi but pure therefore firme oh let this honourable priviledge draw all to partake of it Abhor all base roots of bitternesse rising up to defile this amity and weaken it First abhor all enmity of unbeliefe suspition of God distrust of his promises as if he meant nothing lesse this is the deepest villany never leave till thy large heart can better answer the Lord then Iehonadab answered Iehu's question is thy heart right as mine ye doubtlesse make us of all Ordinances especially the Supper of Christ the Simball of this amity to seal it up to thy soul beteam him to so much faith as to abhor to revive that enmity which Christ hath slaine and nailed to his Crosse And Secondly take heed of all falshood in thy Covenant with God if thou be loose to him and yet expecteth him to be close to thee thou wilt be deceived VI ADOPTION ANswering to her contrary misery through sinne to wit bastards and losse of the right and blessing of Children Adam was the Son of God by Creation Luk. 3. By his fall he lost it is become a bastard stript himselfe of his royalties birthright and inheritance the dignity of the first born dominion and Lordships of the creatures title to Paradice and immortality Adoption The Lord restors a sinner to his fauour liulyhud sunshipp Lordshipp coheireshipp with Christ God doth in him aknoledg ye for his Child hare of God Cohaire wth Christ he powers into ye ye spirit of grace supplicatio yt as Iacob thou maist wrastell wth him preuaile is Hosea 34. The eternall word and also flesh by the power of the holy Ghost did by his bloody satisfaction ever intreat ●ur Father pacifies his justice and washed off our r●bellions and guilt with the curse thereof from us that so we might passe into the former priviledge of Sonship and whatever honour of grace appertained thereunto and that by adoption for as a rich Prince having lost his Son takes another Child not his own and strips him of his name and family and causes him to take his own name upon him and ●o become his own and gives him right to all that he hath and makes him his hei●e so doth the Lord take us poor lost bastards strips us of our names and takes us into his stock arrays us in his own robes sets us at his own table causeth us to forget our fathers house all the basenesse thereof restores us to the right of Sons of the Almighty begat of his own seed and Spirit and gives the Liberty of Sons the title to all his creatures with purenesse without fear of ever being cast out any more till we come to possesse Heaven with himselfe for ever Indeed there is difference between Gods adoption and mans for man adopts no Child if he have one of his own but the Lord having a most beloved Son of his yet adopts us to be coheirs a man adopts Sons such as may in some kinde content him but the Lord adopts bastards shewing that he looks not at any thing in us but what his grace can beteem us a man adopts to an earthly estate of better quality then be●ore but the Lord adopts to a better estate in nature even from earth to heaven to a better then Adam lost a man adopts to an inheritance which may leave the heir as bare of it as it ●ound him the Lord adopts to an estate unchangeable which can never be lost as Adams was but is eternall and undefeatable in these our priviledges of adoption exceed our creation and now we become better sons then ever as Iob after his ●ecovery greater ●hen before even the first fruits of his creatures and the birthright of them Here we are heirs under age and in our minority we seem therefore little to differ from servants ye● from abjects wondering often with our selves yea doubting how God should mean us such excellencies hereafter and yet endure that we should be so base the while we are as the Doves among the pots ●ulled with the colour of corruption smeared with the basenesse of affections tanned by the sun of persecu●ion made the scorn of men and spectacle of Angels yea we serve for meere tenisballs for bastards to tosse up and down but yet we are even here Iacobs of God having the birthright Iacobs seed was almost 500 years old ere they recovered the birthright In a word this world is a totall eclipse of our adoption in respect of other mens esteem yet the seed of God for our regeneration abides constantly in us as the Sun by his means it is with us in secret far otherwise then the malignant world could imagin if the Iews could have known the Lord of life they would never have killed him but our honour is purposely hidden from them that our basenesse might conforme us here to our head A true Son and daughter of God partakes of the Sonship of Christ their head the Angels worship Christ the same when he was brought into the world and for his sake the Angels are ministring Spirits for the good of us and ours the Father acknowledging Christ saying This day have I begotten thee so doth God in him acknowledge thee for his Child and himselfe thy Father the Father made Christ the heir of all things and all things which the Father hath are thine as thou art Christs Christ was pittied by the Father in that he feared and thy Father will be afflicted with thee in all thy afflictions Christ was faithfull in all Gods house as a Son fulfilling all righteousnesse if ●hou be a Son thy faithful fear and obedience should shew it the Lord Jesus being the Lord of all yet denyed all even to a pillow to lean his head on and a hole to hide himselfe in and thou if a Son shalt and wilt deny thy selfe and take up thy Crosse and learn obedience by suffering dispise the world and compute all dung to win his acceptance Briefly if a Son then thou art an heir of God and co-heirs of Christ whatever is wanting here shall be

supplyed in Heaven yet here thou shalt partake all the good things of God for why whom doth a Father provide for but for his Children whose is all that he hath save theirs Again if a Son then thou knowest the way to the Throne of grace even to the Father in the mediation of Christ and there canst with the spirit of a Son groan at least unutterable desire to the Lord that thou mightest be once free from bondage to this body of death from unbeliefe and an unsavoury heart from worldlinesse from the errour of the wicked and this sinfull world and the like Oh with humble confidence thou wilt make known thy request to God and that in secret such as none but thy selfe can be privy to and wilt improve this liberty then strangers and slaves shall not dare to come nere by these few try thy self and if thou finde the spirit of Adoption to be a stranger leave not till the Lord have created it if he have done it stand fast in this priviledge and maintain it by thy awe fear of thy Father not lest he should cast thee off againe but because being once a Son thou shalt never be disposessed either of thy right here or thine inheritance hereafter rely upon thy Father bear thy selfe upon him not to presume to offend him or to try conclusions what a Father can bear but to fear him to keep thy heart in awe childlike tender to prize thy priviledge and wonder that thousands should be left as bastards and others cast out as Ishmaels and thou taken in as a Son and kept in the house not to be cast out blesse the Lord for ●his and seek no other base props as if they could bear thy priviledge or add to it honour nothing so far as to come into competi●ion with a Father Abraham hath forgotten thee but thou art our Father O Lord Isa. 63. hold thy Sonship by faith that so thou mayest hold with all the love of thy Father and count it a secret blessing which no servant or stranger can partake of or understand in all thy base revolts rest not in any of thy false amends by duty till the thought of thy Father hath received thee to thy former condition use him as a Father and think not that thou canst come too often unto him in prayer learn to acquaint with ●im and Iob 22. be no stranger walk in and out with a mixture of fear and confidence for as he is a consuming fire so yet he rejoyceth to get his childrens hearts rest on him consider what an unspeakable debt of love is in a fathers heart Ioab told David and so Absolom had lived he would not have cared if himself and his had dyed why he was his child and all his treachery could not put ou● love from him if once rhou be a child of this father thou mayest go to him for rescue against all enemies Isa. 63. 15. thy name may be Elimelech or Abimelech my God my Father is a King he will be even with them that touch his annoynted Eph. 1. 18 19. see there the great hopes which a Son of this father hath title to what indeavors are so poor which a father respects not in a child who shall ever seperate a Son from his Father could Satan come betwe●n God and Iob. Chap. 1. Children wives servant● friends bretheren all carnall relations may fail this is everlasting Isa. 63. 16. Redemption Christ ●em●ue Sin and guilt payes ye price ransum of his blud to make a satisfaction for them to Iustice deliue●s ye sole from both gui●● dominion of sin fo ther is no place or pleading or sentance for punishment treding vpon lions aders yong lions dragon● trampling vnder foot 91 Psalme 13 VII REDEMPTION REdemption to two things First thraldome and slavery to sin and so to all enemies who by sin strove to hold the soul under fear and bondage Secondly to the sting and dint of all such crosses as sin hath brought into the world as the tokens of Gods displeasure for it Touching the first Redemption sets the soule at liberty from all that servitude and tiranny it buys out and restores the soul to the liberty of the released and ransomed ones makes it free onely to righteousnesse and that for ever bears the eare for God and yet not to make the soul slavish but a servant being delivered from all enemies yea death it selfe the last enemy to serve the Lord in righteousnesse and holinesse alwayes From hence issueth an heart in larged to God so fearing him as fearing nothing else not serving in the oldnesse of the letter but in the newnesse of the spirit delivered from the Ordinances of Moses the traditions of Pharises and Papists the bonds imposed unjustly by bad men upon conscience Hence secondly floweth a right to the protection and providence of God and to his holy hand over us and ours against the violence of outward enemies or those crosses which threaten our lives health liberty and welfare begun in this life ending at the resurrection And lastly to those two may be added freedome to Gods service to finde it an easie yoak and a light burden yea to count it our happinesse to deny our own wills because bodies and souls are bought with a price that we should not be at our own but at his will who dearly bought us see 2 Cor. 5. 15. The will hath lost her freedome to all true good and is tyed to evill onely and continually the conscience hath lost hers by guilt and accuseth in stead of excusing or else excused deceitfully or else is senslesse of either sorrow begins at home by sin but ends abroad for by this means whatsoever fear or evill sin hath incurred that the Devil abuses to hold the soule under by as the wrath of God the purenesse and terrour of the Law the one to tempt the other to terrifie the day of account and last Judgement the time of death which is the sentence in this life eternall misery hereafter besides many calamities here either felt or feared from which though a sinner be actually saved yet not secured of but all the life long subject unto bondage by these Satan enslaves the soul so that either their bondage by sin i● used by the Lord as a step to deliver from bondage to sin sin hath set up a court in the conscience of man in this court the debt or crime impleaded is sin the pleader and informer is Satan the rule of proceeding is the Law of Justice the evidence given or witnesse is conscience the Judge the Lord the penalty is death and distruction during the substance of this court in what a pickle is man the strong man Satan by this house of conscience holds this sinner bound and shut up under brazen bars and bolts not to be broken open by a mortall opposite but rules and keeps all at peace and at his own pleasure Now mark as we

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