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conscience_n	faith_n	good_a	timothy_n	1,872	5	11.8568	5	true

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A54027	Concerning the church: or, of the church-state under the Gospel Whereby it may appear what a miserable apostacy from the truth hath overspread and covered the earth for many ages and generations, and how gross and thick the darkness yet lies upon it, though the light of God in his tender mercy hath broke forth and shined upon the people of his gathering, and through them hath also visited the world. The guidance of this in my heart, was particularly and chiefly towards the Papists, but I afterwards had a true sence, that it also extended to the state of such Protestants, as had not waited on the Lord, ... Written in Alisbury prison about the middle of the 6th month, 1666. By Issac Penington. Whereunto is annexed, Some observations upon the eternal judgment, as it is expressed by Christ, Mat.25.31 to the end of the chapter.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1666 (1666)	Wing P1157; ESTC R224045	15,114	20

the Stranger say Christ is the Son of God though he believes and owns the thing yet they receive it not from his mouth Well whence are these false Prophets and false Christs They are of the World That 's their root Thence they come They are of the worldly spirit the worldly wisdom the worldly nature only cloathed outwardly with a profession and shew of the Doctrine and Practices of Christ and his Apostles And what do they do They preach worldly things They suit their doctrine to the worldly nature principle and spirit And what is their success The World heareth them 1 Joh. 4.5 The earthly wisdom in man falls in with them judges them to be right owns them sets up their way of Christianity and Worship in the World and thus the World become Christians Those which came in the Name of Christ the World could not receive He that knoweth God heareth us not the World 1 John 4.6 There were but a few in comparison gathered here and there then a few in one place a few in another The Doctrine that comes forth in the Power scatters the worldly part Man's wisdom man's nature cannot receive it in the Love and Life of it But when these false Christs and false Prophets come the World can turn Christians then a whole City or a whole Nation can presently become a Church Why so These come in that which the World can receive which their wisdom can answer fall in with and subject to These can bring forth a Cross which the World can like fall down and worship but the Cross of Christ they cannot for that crucifies and slayes the worldly nature wherever it is felt taken up and subjected to The way of Life is strait and narrow and few there be that can walk therein but a broader way more may walk in The true Church is not easily found or entred into but the false is wider and far larger yea desirable to the flesh The true Church is circumspect will admit none but in the way of God's Wisdom and Power but the false Church prostitutes and thrusts her self upon all She meets men in the streets and forceth them into her bed whereas the voice of the true Church is Wait for the preparation for the being changed by that which giveth entrance into the Truth for the Builder of the Church is God Heb. 3.4 he builds this House by Christ ver 6. as by Moses he built the House under the Law and he is the adder to the Building Act. 2.47 So Paul also writing to Timothy tells him of perilous times in the last dayes 2 Tim. 3.1 For when the last dayes come and the Antichrists and false Prophets appear then men are in great danger of being deceived and of making shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience Then he that is not in the Truth but only in the form and outward appearance will be swallowed up by the deceit and take up his dwelling in the Form with out the Power for so saith the Apostle concerning them v. 5. they have a Form of Godliness but deny the Power of it And all manner of Wickedness will shelter it self under this Form Self-love Covetousness Boastings Pride Blasphemy Disobedience to Parents Unthankfulness Unholiness c. ver 2 3 4. and indeed what not For what is so evil which cannot shelter it self under that Form of Religion and Profession where there is not the true Power and Life of Religion to resist and subdue it Now mark When these Antichrists and false Prophets had got up into a body and strength gaining Authority and Credit in the World what did they then do but endeavour wholly to crush and suppress the Truth with those that abode still in it Then the Dragon with his Angels fighteth with Michael and his Angels They had still been fighting with the Apostles and Ministers of Christ endeavouring to disparage them and eat out their esteem in the Churches as 2 Cor. 11. but they could not prevail Satan in all his enterprizes fell down like Lightning before the Glory and Power of Christ in his Apostles and Ministers But when the Apostacy encreased and the Churches provoked their Preserver growing cold in Love and faint in Faith being lifted up with their Gifts thinking highly of themselves and their standing to be firm and many received not the love of the Truth but only a profession of it for by-ends c. Then the Lord began to threaten some with the removal of their Candlestick and did afterwards proceed in Judgment even to let the false Prophets and Antichrists prevail and strong Delusions enter that they who had dallied with the Truth might be frustrated of the Salvation they expected by it meeting with a Lie which destroyeth in the stead of it 2 Thess 2.10 11 12. And so God who before built up in his jealousie and indignation afterwards threw down men abiding not in the Faith nor in the Power but in the Form and outward Profession which separated from the Power the Lord abhorreth What he loved he secured for himself his holy Temple his holy Altar his spiritual Worshippers and what he regarded not which was the Form and outward Ordinances now polluted he gave to the heathenishly-professing spirit and there they worship and magnifie their own state prizing it by its outward glory and appearance and not by a right sence and knowledge of it in the Truth Read these things outwardly in the letter or rather wait upon God that ye may read them who caused them to be writ to that end for to be read and understood Rev. 12. chap. 11. 1 2. where the battel of the Dragon is related and God's taking down his Building and disposing of it according to his pleasure Again mark Antichrist gets into the Temple upon the falling away sits there as God ruling giving Laws and exacting Obedience in the Name of God But when was this to be In the last times 1 Tim. 4.1 which would be very perilous through the power of wickedness and deceit then getting up When did those times begin They began in the Apostles dayes The Mystery of Iniquity was then at work 2 Thess 2.7 Yea saith John it is the last time by the coming of the Antichrists and Deceivers we know it to be so 1 Joh. 2.18 Christ said They should come John said they are come Paul saw them then at work in the mysterious Power of Darkness But they could not carry their work through the Spirit and Power of Christ in his Apostles stood so much in their way but after they were removed out of the way Antichrist got up his Mystery of Deceit apace Well how long doth he reign Even till the very coming of Christ in his Spirit and Power yea there is some remainder of him till the very brightness of his coming 2 Thess 2.8 This Mystery of Iniquity hath power and authority over all the wisdom of man but the appearance of Christ in the