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A95609	A Scripture-map of the wildernesse of sin, and vvay to Canaan. Or The sinners way to the saints rest. Wherein the close bewildring sleights of sin, wiles of the Devill, and windings of the heart, as also the various bewildrings of lost sinners, yea, even of saints, before, in, and after conversion; the necessity of leaning upon Christ alone for salvation, with directions therein: as also, the evident and eminent danger of false guides, false wayes, false leaning-stocks, are plainly, and practically discovered. Being the summe of LXIV lecture sermons preached at Sudbury in Suffolk, on Cantic. 8.5. / By Faithful Teate, M.A. minister of the Gospel.	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1655 (1655)	Wing T615; Thomason E839_1; ESTC R203761	372,945	489

Wildernesse Thine heart is exposed yea and disposed too to all the wayes and windings of spirit that ever entangled any soule in the world Vse and surely they are enough to bewilder thee Oh let this consideration to purpose humble thee whereever thou goest thou carriest thy wildernesse about thee Come we now to a second sort of Satans Advantages that he hath from us to bewilder us which is CHAP. IX ●pntaines the second advantage from our selves our hearts are tempters into the wildernesse opened and applyed 2d Advant Our hearts are tempted into the wilderness SEcondly Our hearts are not only a Wildernesse unto us but tempters and seducers into the Wildernesse Naturally they are a sinfull Wildernesse and as naturally doe they inveigle us into the Wildernesse of sinne And alas how easie is it for Satans devices to bewilder us since he hath such advantage of us Our hearts advise counsell and perswade us having been first perswaded by Satan Hence are the expressions of that other sort Jer. 9.14 and 18.12 and 23.17 They walke after the devices and counsels Note and imaginations of their own hearts Their hearts are their guides and they goe after their hearts Now when man followes his hearts guidance if his heart lose it selfe in sinne he must needs be lost in the same Wildernesse Mat. 5.28 Whosoever lookes on a woman to lust after her hath already committed adultery with her in his heart In this case the heart is the Baud the heart is lost first the whole man goes after it and is lost with it 'T is said of the young Man and the Whore Prov. 7. She was the first she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face tempted him verse 13. And he goes after her verse 22. Our hearts being forwardest as Harlots tempt us and we as fooles straight-way go after them And this our hearts take up of themselves Naturally so 't is naturall to them to lead us to the wildernesse Their bent is that way Looke what way the bent of any thing in the world is that way will it goe Compare two Scriptures Hos 11.7 They are bent to backslyding from me to slide back from my counsels and calls and waies to slide back into their own waies wildernesse c. And then Prov. 14.14 The backslyder in heart shall be fill'd with his own waies Marke Backslyding that is before the peoples bent is here called the hearts own way You shall therefore finde that the Lord challengeth the heart as first in the transgression or going astray Act. 7.39 In their hearts they turned back to Egypt Our hearts subject to be tempted into the wilderness from these two reasons Now then a word or two to give you an account first that our hearts are bent to walke after the waies of the wildernesse and then that we are bent to walke after the waies of our own hearts First then The bent of our hearts is by nature to the wildernesse There are but these two things that engage the bent ones heart to one place rather then another 1. Innate affection First An innate affection I like this place the best of any place that ever I saw saith one How much is that place my darling saith another Beloved the Wildernesse of sinne is our hearts darling wee fancy no place naturally so much as this wildernesse no wayes please us so well as the wayes of sinne There is something in every particular place that suits some mans particular fancy that makes him abide there There is something in every particular sinne that suits some sinners particular fancy and that makes him dwell there still Our heart naturally suits with these wayes of sinne therefore it is that men walke in them still 2ly Cuflomatinesse Secondly A Customary aboad I have lived saith one all my dayes in the City and I doe not know how now to dwell in the Country I have lived saith another all my daies in the Country and I cannot tell how to away with the City Aire the City-noises the City-Company c. Our hearts by nature are and ever have been accustomed to the wildernesse therefore the bent of our hearts is to the Wildernesse-ward still We cannot brook dwelling in Gods holy City the heavenly Jerusalem We have not been accustomed to such manner of living such company such converse You have both these pregnantly expressed in one scripture Jer. 14.10 Thus saith God to this people Thus have they loved to wander they have not refrained their feet They have loved to wander there 's their innate affection to this spirituall Wildernesse They have not refrained their feet there is their Customary bewildring Wandring they love and wandring they are used to It suites with their phancy and it is that which they have spent their daies in and upon these two accompts it is that the bent of their hearts is towards the Wildernesse And now Secondly Our hearts prevalent in tempting us upon two grounds If the bent of our hearts be Wildernesse-ward it 's easie to conceive how they bend us towards the Wildernesse Hos 4.8 they set their heart on thoir iniquity and I will punish them for their waies Verse 9. Their waies are according to the bent of their hearts So 2 Tim. 3.6 Led away with divers lusts Lusts those are the stirrings and motions of the heart and these are the tempters to lead us away Remarkable is that Ezek. 12 21. But as for them whose heart walketh after their abominations I 'le recompence their waies upon their own heads Such therefore as their hearts are such will their waies be And that upon these two grounds First our hearts are the men of our Counsell 1. They are our Bosome-Counsellors They lie in our bosoms and therefore as to the choice of all our waies with them it is that we consult Our bosom-friends and darling relations are our hearts If man be refractory as to any way It 's policy to perswade the wife of his bosom prevail with her and 't is likely she will prevail with him Satan when hee would seduce us into any of his waies hee first makes it his businesse to overcome our hearts in our bosoms and us by them Pray thee husband go saith the wife and then he goes Pray go saith the heart and away he goes 1 Tim. 2.13 Adam was not deceived that is not first but the woman being deceived was in the transgression Two things there are here remarkable First the woman that lay in Adams bosom was bewildred for so the word signifies before the man Secondly the heart of the woman was bewildred 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before she her self 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was led to go astray The woman in Adams bosom bewildred him the heart in Eves bosom bewildred her The influence of the wife of thy bosom to perswade thee is grounded upon propriety Shee being thine own so nearly so dearly thou think'st she will not

end of the verse There thy mother brought thee forth whoever she was that bare thee Friends where doth the wilde Ass bring forth her colt Is it not in the wilderness where that is brought forth is man born Job 11.11 Man is born like a wilde asses colt compare Ezek. 16.4 5. with Deut. 32.9 where God speaks of the same Israel at the same time In the day that thou wast born in Ezek. thou wast cast forth in the open field and there I spied thee and saith he in Deut. I found thee in the waste howling wilderness so then to be born in sin is to be born in a wilderness A sign hereof in the sufferings and death those rendings of little babes If you require a sign and will not otherwise believe O look upon your sick and sorrowful little Babes Are they not sometimes torn a sunder in the birth are they not prickt to the heart with pains sometimes as soon as born are they not rent with convulsion fits Did not Davids first-born by Bathshebah die when newly born as well as Absolom full grown If you see a mans face and hands all scratched nay if you find him bloody and torn to pieces limb from limb and perhaps half or almost all devoured will you not say that he might thank the thorns and the savage beasts of the wilderness Oh! that I could never look upon my sick childe but with mine heart full of grief for mine original wilderness-transgression surely these rendings are from those thorns First Then from hence take a view of thy birth-condition Use hereof 1. As to our selves I would present it to you to the same end that God did to them Ezek. 16. That you might look upon your persons as they were in the day of your birth and loath them and upon the bowels of the Lords compassion towards you in that day and admire them surely you cannot sufficiently do the one or the other and for my part I think that he was never savingly humbled that hath not been humbled to purpose for original-bewildrings I cannot but deny their conversion that dare deny original transgression Secondly From hence take a view of thy poor children 2. As to our little babes you use to look upon your children as soon as born Oh! look upon them as born in the wilderness where the wilde Ass hath brought forth her colt there hast thou brought forth thy childe and canst thou finde in thine heart to leave it there O pitty pitty the fruit of thy loyns and of thy womb You 'l count it an argument of a whorish woman that shall be so unnatural as to go into a desert to bring forth and shall then leave her childe there You have chosen to bring forth your children in the wilderness whereas you might have brought forth in Paradise had not Eve your mother been in the transgression and led Adam also into that wilderness O tremble to think of leaving them where you bear them You 'l say What can we do for our little babes what are they capable of Why as soon as they are born you can wash and cloath and feed their bodies that are not bewildred and can you do nothing for their bewildred lost souls you cannot counsel or instruct or correct them they are not capable but yet you may pray them out of the wilderness Learn of Hannah she had a way to bring her son to Zion to the Temple to the Lord 1 Sam. 1.11 by supplication from the womb and by dedication or giving up to God from the breasts ver 28. Take thy childe from the wilderness 't is better carrying it to the temple CHAP. II. Contains the second third and fourth Particulars that from the womb in the wilderness boys and girls yong men and maidens in the wilderness of sin proved and applyed 2 From the womb in the wilderness SEcondly As in the womb and day of birth so from the womb and birth-day the unregenerate are spiritually bewildred Take your account from the very womb the Scripture will begin as soon as you which saith Psalm 58.3 The wicked are estranged from the womb as soon as they be born they go astray You use to say of little children they have no hurt in them verily as soon as they have any thing in them they have hurt in them as soon as they go they go astray and what 's that but to be bewildred Isa 48.8 Thou wast called a transgressor that is one turn'd out of the way from the womb The very first steps that the childe can take when it begins to go alone are steps in the wilderness quam primum ingreditur transgreditur Have you not observed rebellion and the old Adam in the first gestures and looks and broken words that your children learn won't won't saith the childe when 't can say no more and wrangles and fights against it's best friends Surely 't is not for nothing that the Holy Ghost so often joyns the character of our natural state to the word children thus children of wrath children of disobedience rebellious children children that are corrupters back-sliding children c. I believe that though he speaks unto men and women yet by the phrase he imports as the former Scriptures asserted that they began those ways when they were but children Friends you delight in your children when they begin to go O pity them herein that now they begin to go astray Thirdly as little children newly speaking are speaking lies 3. Boys and girls in the wilderness and newly going are going astray so boyes and girls I mean of bigger growth playing in the streets of your town you may finde them sporting in the pathes of the wilderness In this sense is that 's too true that God hath promised to fulfil in a better Isa 6.7 8. The sucking the weaned the little childe playeth with the lion and leopard and lay their hands upon the hole of the asp and cockatrice den And verily the elder they grow in years the farther they go into the wilderness The Devil counts it not lost labor to play with your children in the streets to teach them sinful words apish gestures and to tread out such pathes in the wilderness for them as their little feet may take pleasure to trample in But hearken little children and I will tell you a story that may teach you the fear of the Lord If little children even little children you of five six or seven years of age will be medling with the sinful ways of the wilderness the wilde beasts of the wilderness will not be far off Turn your children often to that sad story 2 Kings 2.23 There came forth little children and mocked the prophet and said Go up thou bald head go up thou bald head a business perhaps that some of you would rather smile at then smite at in your children and say more years will teach them more wit c. but these though children

looks she calls she feeles for her husband but he is gone yet she goeth in the darke and after him she goes but in stead of finding him loseth her selfe Now perhaps she may fear yea think yea be perswaded that the joyes of yesterday were but a dreame and that she was never at all brought out of the Wildernesse Thus she takes on perhaps more than at the beginning untill the day again breaks and her Husband that all this while observed her speaks unto her and reveales himself afresh and comforts her And now this is that she will doe she takes hold of him she followes after him and yet keeps close unto him she makes him her strength if she cannot goe he must leade her he must carry her for home with him she must she is resolved to goe Pardon the Allegory for I speake of Christ and his Church The Soul departing from the Lord as all of us did in Adam is called a woman departing from her first Husband Hos 2. It thinkes to please it selfe in sin but instead of finding a way to true pleasure hits upon this spirituall Wildernesse The Night is the darksome clouding of a convicted wounded spirit The Lyons roaring c. is the terrours of the Law temptations of Satan horrors of Conscience In this condition as I said the soul is afraid of crying out for a Guide for a God for fear of the Devil Many a such soul is more afraid of praying now than it was of cursing or swearing before This Sunset of carnall comforts this Midnight of black terrours may and often doth continue long and alwaies long enough to make the poor heart weary of the Wildernesse But God is faithfull who suffers not the soul that he loves to be tempted above what it is able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape Through the tender mercy of this God the Day-star at length visites the soul thus sitting in darknesse And here 's some glimering of comfort to the heart Yea but anon the Sunne of Righteousnesse ariseth with healing under his wings And now are the beasts of the prey laying themselves downe in their dens Satan is chained up from assaulting the Law is prohibited from condemning and Conscience begins a little to be cheared and now the soul gets up upon her feet to hear what God will say and the sound that she hears is the voice of her Beloved where art thou poore Soul come unto me and I will give thee rest And this abundantly revives her yea but by and by Christ comes and manifests himself unto her and receives her making her able by Faith to embrace him He puts his Robes his Righteousnesse upon her nakednesse his Oyle his Comforts into her wounds his Wine his Joyes revive her his Grace his Oyntments doe perfume her and now the heart that was rent and the bones which were broken doe rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory And now the soul makes too much haste home even greater than Christ seeth convenient for it crying out Oh that I were dissolved that I might be at home with the Lord Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace Oh! that I had but power according to my minde what would not I doe for God This is much haste but doth this hold alwaies No verily the Spirit indeed is willing but the Flesh is weake it s not able to beare such hard travail it grows drowsie and dull and heavy with sleep I meane security or sloath or the like yea and asleep it falls under the edge of the Wildernesse though it be out of the state of sinne yet it is neare unto the terrours and actings of sin still And as soon as this soul falls asleep Christ seemes to withdraw Anon the soul is again awakened but night is come upon it It is not yet so free from the Wildernesse but it can againe heare the roaring Lyons that is 't is again afflicted perplexed troubled Satan's as loud Conscience is as loud as ever And now saith the soul alass all was but a dreame but a delusion and I was never at all brought out of the Wildernesse never savingly wrought upon Now she gets up and loseth her self in looking a Christ now she is in as much darknesse as ever as to her apprehension and this is the first bewildring darknesse after Conversion v●z upon the soules falling asleep in spiritual sloth and security even upon such withdrawing of its first zeale and Gods withdrawing his first smiles But when Christ hath to purpose tryed he will graciously returne unto such and restore the joy of his salvation yet perhaps never againe in such a ravishing transporting measure here though he will restore a convenient measure to support for the present yet it's like so sparingly as to keep the soul in more humble and close dependance for the future I have been the longer Made out in the Spouse because I have been telling the main of the story of this Spouse in the Canticles unto that verse which is my Text. You may observe mention of two eminent times of darknesse or benighting times to the poor Spouse Twice in the dark the first was Cant. 3.1 By night I sought him c. Being in the dark she was afraid to be any more without him The second was Cant. 5.2 when she fell asleep and Christ waited to awaken her till his locks were bedewed with the night saith the Text. Now in both these darknesses she was at a losse for her beloved Cant. 3.1 I sought him but I found him not so ver 2 so also Cant. 5.6 I sought him but he had withdrawn himselfe Here it seemes she had once found him but now she hath lost him Now suitable to this double losse Twice coming out of the Wilderness and benighted condition you have mention made twice of her coming out of the Wildernesse Cant. 3. she is bewildred and benighted and at a losse for Christ but ver 4. at length she gets at him and it followes ver 6. Who is this that comes out of the Wildernesse perfumed with all the precious powders of the Merchant Where you have to observe 1. How sadly shee was bewildred till she came at Jesus Christ 2. In how glorious and transcendent beauty she was when she by taking hold upon Christ as is said ver 4. came out of the Wildernesse Oh 't is such a bright day now that she doth not thinke of another night so much peace of conscience joy in believing so much ravishment such smoking perfumes c. Now she comes out of the wilderness and she is a perfumed Spouse But then again as you read of her second Night and second Bewildring in the fifth Chapter so of her comming out of the wildernesse the second time in our Text. Onely observe the difference and you shall find it what I said true Who is this that comes up from the wildernesse leaning upon her beloved Cant.