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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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it up againe this Commandement have I received of my Father So now the time of his suffering being come hee was willing to lay downe his life for poore miserable fallen man-kinde he being nail'd upon the Crosse hee endured sore paines in his body and much more in his minde for the whole wrath of God lay upon him for all our sins for he was wounded for our transgressions both spirituall and temporall A man may bear the infirmities of his body but a wounded spirit who can beare They that hâââ beene wounded in spirit can tell that it iâ ãâã very sore thing and heavy to be borne Hââ much more sorer and heavier was it upââ Christ when he was wounded for all the fââ of all man-kinde it made him to cry out ãâã God my God why hast thou forsaken me Mar. 1â 34. Is it nothing to you all ye that passe by ãâã hold and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrââ which is done unto me wherewith the Lord hââ afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger Lam. ãâã 12. There was never affliction like this thââ was done unto Christ his love was so grââ to man-kind that there was not any thing tââ deare to him but he was willing to for-goâ ãâã for their sakes he shedde his heart-blood fââ their sakes our sins could not be pardoneââ without his blood being shed for withoââ blood-shedding there is no remission Heb. ãâã 12. And it is not possible that the blood ââbuls and goats should take away sins wheââfore when hee commeth into the world hâ saith Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not but a body hast thou prepared me In burnt offârings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleâsure Then said I loe I come to doe thy will ãâã God By the which will wee are sanctifâââ through the offering of the body of Christ Jesââ once for all Heb. 10.4 5 6 7. It was not tââ sacrifice of beasts that could take away sin or make satisfaction to God therefore he prepaâed Christ a bodie and he was the only saârifice that could and did make full satisfactiân to God for the sins of the whole world 1 âet 2.24 Who his owne selfe bare our sinnes in âis owne bodie on the tree that we being dead to âânne should live unto righteousnesse by whose ââipeâ ye were healed Titus 2.14 Who gave himââlfe for us that he might redeeme us from all iniââity and purifie unto himselfe a peculiar people âââalous of good workes Col. 1.14 In whom wee âave redemption through his blood even the forââvenesse of sins Gal. 3.13 Christ hath redeemed ââs from the curse of the Law being made a curse âor us For it is written cursed is every one that âangeth on a tree So Christ was made perfect âor us through suffering John 19.28 After ââis Jesus knowing that all things were now acâomplished that the Scripture might be fulfilled ând vers 30. He said it is finished and he howââ his head and gave up the ghost I have now shewed you that the Father hath ââid all our sinnes upon Christ and hee hath âade full satisfaction to the Father for them All our sins being laid upon Christ they are âecome his they are not ours but his For âe hath made him to be sin for us that knew no sin âhat we might be made the righteousnesse of God in him 2 Cor. 5.21 And Christ redeemed us frââ the curse of the law being made a curse for ãâã How was Christ made sin and a curse for ãâã If a man be bound to pay another mans deââââ he is become the debter and if the Creditoââ follows the Law of him he must pay the debââââ and he paying the debt the other that owâ the debt is freed there is nothing to be doâââ against him because the other hath satisfiââ the Creditour So our sinnes being laid upon Christ anâ he undertaking to pay a full satisfaction to ãâã Father for them he is become the debter oâ sins are his and his Father lookes upon hââ as the sinner not that himself had sinned ãâã bearing our sinnes and as he became the siâner for us so hee became a curse for us Fââ the Law saith Cursed is every one that continâeth not in all things which are written in the bâââ of the Law to doe them Gal. 3.10 So God hath required this debt of Christ ãâã be paid by him to the utmost farthing and ãâã hath done it for us there is nothing to bâ done for the salvation of our soules but all ãâã done already for us by the sufferings of Chriââ and God is fully satisfied and well pleasââ This is my beloved Sonne in whom I am well pleâsed Mat. 3.17 And he is as well pleased wiââ us in his Sonne as he is with his Sonne aââ he hath no more to say against us for our sins than hee hath against his Son And God doth âove us with the same love that he hath loved Christ withall John 17.23 CHAP. V. Now Christ is offered freely to all man-kind without any price or worthinesse of their owne GOd was pleased to make Christ a sacrifice for the sins of the whole world to reconcile âhe world unto himselfe not imputing their sinnes ââto them 2 Cor. 5.19 And God would have ââe world to know what Christ hath done for ââem he would not have his love and mercy ând great goodnesse to be hid from them but ãâã be made known to them that poore souls ââat are wounded with sinne may looke upon âhrist that was crucified for their sinnes and ãâã him see God as well pleased with them as ãâã is with Christ There is nothing now to ânder Gods love to us he loves us freely I âll heale their rebellions I will love them freely ãâã my anger is turned away from them Hos 14. ãâã Behold the dayes come saith the Lord that I âll make a new covenant with the house of Israel ãâã with the house of Judah Not according to the Covenant that I made with their fathers wherâ I tooke them by the hand to bring them out of thâ land of AEgypt the which my Covenant they brake although I was an Husband unto them saith thâ Lord. But this shall be the Covenant that I wiââ make with the house of Israel After those dayâ saith the Lord I will put my Law in their iâ ward parts and write it in their hearts and will be their God and they shall be my people Fââ I will forgive their iniquity and will remembââ their sins no more Jer. 31.31 32 33 34. That old covenant that he made with theâ was a covenant of workes and that covenanâ they broke they were not able to keepe it bâ now God hath made a new covenant with ãâã in Christ a better covenant than the other for God hath given Christ to us for a coânant for him to undertake to make full satisfaction for our sinnes and to be a Mediâtor betwixt God and us There was
ââbideth for ever 1 Pet. 1.23 Except a man borne of water and of the spirit hee cannot eââ into the kingdome of God John 3.5 Before we be thus called we differ nothinâ from those that are but servants but when ãâã are called by this new worke wrought inââ which is the time appointed of the Father then he will make known to us what hee haââ prepared for us before the world began ãâã were heirs to it when we were dead in sins aâ trespasses but did not then make it known ãâã us and to all these hee will give eternall liââ I give unto them eternall life and they shall neââ perish neither shall any man plucke them out of my hand My Father which gave them me is greater then all and no man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers hand John 10.28 29. Feare not little flocke it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdome Thou hast given him power over them that he should give eternall life to as many as thou hast given him And this is life eternall that they might know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent John 17.23 And it is hee alone that doth bring us to the knowledge of himselfe Jesus said I am the way the truth and the life no man commeth to the Father but by me John 14.6 I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit which leadeth thee the way that thou shouldst goe Isa 48.17 And thine eare shall heare a word behind thee saying This is the way walk in it Isa 30.21 And these that are his children he will overpower them with his Spirit and make them come unto him Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power Psal 110.3 Wee are unwilling by nature to come to God but when hee commeth with his power he will make us willing to doe what he would have us Mat. 22. Goe yee therefore out into the high wayes and as many as ye find compell them to come to the marriage This was a spirituall compulsion for noâ hath the power to make them willing but tââ Spirit The Magistrate doth compell to aââ outward conformitie but that cannot maââ them willing it is only the worke of the spirit and hee will compell all his children ãâã come to this marriage and make them williââ to come CHAP. IX It is the Spirit alone in us that doth ãâã in all PAul saith I desire not to know any thing âmong you save Jesus Christ and him craâââed 1 Cor. 1.2 For by him he being crucifiââ for us he hath obtained al things for us aââ we cannot know that Christ was crucified ãâã us nor any thing what he hath done for ãâã but by the Spirit of God we may believe maââ things to be truth because it is writ in thâ Scripture and because many say it is truââ but this is but the hearing of the eare noâ knows it to be truth by the hearing of the eaââ as the truth is in Jesus but by the Spiritâ God alone For what man knoweth the things a man save the spirit of man which is in him Even so the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 2.11 This spirit of man must be one with man or else it cannot understand the things of man as the thoughts and mind and will and desires of man which is one and the same with man so the Spirit of God is one and the same with God or else it could not know the things of God But this spirit knows all things of God For the Spirit searcheth all things yea the deepe things of God 1 Cor. 1.10 And this Spirit God hath given unto us Now we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God And vers 12. of this Chap. God hath revealed âhem to us by his Spirit And vers 10. So Christ hath done all things for us and hath obtained all things for us and wee cannot know âhis without his Spirit and therefore he hath and will give us his Spirit that we may know ât and have the enjoyment of it Man as man âs not able to understand the things of God because man is carnall and the things of God âre spiritual and a carnall apprehension cannot apprehend spirituall things The naturall man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishnesse unto him neither can hee know them because they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2.14 As wee are naturall we cannot know the things of the Spirit wee are not able to discerne them The eye of man hath not seen nor thâ eare of man heard neither hath it entered into thâ heart of man the things which God hath preparââ for them that love him 1 Cor. 2.9 All the excellencies of man cannot bring us to know anâ thing of the mysterie of God for every man iâ beast by his owne knowledge Jer. 10.14 Jer. 51 17. I understood as a beast saith David How ãâã that according to a carnall apprehension anâ a carnall imagination for the highest moââ excellent thoughts that wee as we are men ãâã have of God is but according to our carnal imagination All the wisdome of man is bââ foolishnesse with God 1 Cor. 2.20 Therefoââ his wisedome cannot bring him to know thâ things of God nor humane learning cannââ doe it for then the Scribes and Pharisees anâ the high Priests and Elders would have knowâ Christ but they said Which of us hath beââved him at any time And Paul had a great dââ of humane learning yet that did not briââ him to know God for hee was a persecuter ãâã the Church of God Gal. 1.13 Yet none ãâã the Apostles had so much humane learning ãâã he yet he did not come to know the minde ãâã God the things of God by the teachings of man Now I certifie you brethren that the Gospel which was preached of me was not after man For neither received I it of man neither was I taught it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ Gal. 1.11 12. So it was by the Spirit of God revealed in him that brought him to know the things of God For ye see your calling brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weake things of the world to confound the mighty things And vile things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen yea and things which are not to bring to nought things that are That no flesh should glory in his presence 1 Cor. 1.26 27 28 29. God strips us of all the excellence of the flesh lest wee should thinke by any thing that is of us brings us to the knowledge of God and so wee