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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54031	The consideration of a position concerning the Book of common-prayer as also of some particulars held forth for truths by one Edmund Elis, stiled a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ : with a warning of tender bowels to the rulers, teachers and people of this nation concerning their church and ministry : likewise a few words concerning the kingdom, laws and government of Christ in the heart and conscience, its inoffensiveness to all just laws and governments of the kingdoms of men / by Isaac Penington the younger.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.; Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1161; ESTC R28789	24,645	40

filthiness of the flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of God 2 Cor. 7.1 Now that the corrupt Tree shall never be cut down whilst man is in the body that the heart shall never be throughly circumcised to love the Lord but be in danger of offending God through the love of the Creature this doctrine and belief springeth not from the pure Fountain of Life and Power but the reasoning part hath gathered it from it's conceivings beneath the Power The Seed of God cannot sin for as he is pure which begetteth so is that pure which is begotten of him nor can man sin who is born of it and abides in it and if God please to perfect the Birth and the work of Circumcision What can hinder a man from being wholly born of it from abiding in it Indeed a man that strives in his own strength either against sin or towards holiness may well doubt of ever having it accomplished but he that feels the Eternal Power beginning the work and carrying it on daily cannot doubt but he can perfect it yea and is encouraged by the feeling thereof to hope and wait on him for the perfecting of it As for his instances of David and Peter they reach not the thing For though David and Peter did fall yet both David and Peter might attain an higher state before they went out of the body then they were in before they fell David was a great Prophet and Peter a pretious Disciple but yet there was an higher Estate to be administred even the receiving that which the Prophets prophesied of and which the Disciple was to wait for The Disciples who had known Christ and had been taught by him and had received a Commission from him to whom all Power in Heaven and Earth was given yet were to wait for a Further and Higher State even for receiving the Promise of the Father the Power from on High that he that was with them might be in them John 14.17 John was as great as any Prophet and yet he that was least in the Kingdom was greater then he Read the Acts of the Apostles behold what a pretious people was brought forth even in the beginning of the Apostles Ministry how full of Faith how stripped of the world how single-hearted to God and one towards another Acts 2.42 c. and Acts 4.32 c. What would these be abiding and growing up in the Vine The cutting off of sin is necessary while in the Body but to make the committing of sin necessary while in the Body is a great Derogation to the Power of Gods Grace and to the Mystery of Faith which overcometh the evils of the Heart and the Worldly Nature within purifieth the Conscience from dead works and is held in the Pure Conscience O that men knew the Power and the Faith which stands in the Power For then would not they judge it so impossible to be cleansed by the Faith through the Power O that Light that Light that Pure Light of the Spirit wherein the Living Blood runs which cleanseth from all sin and keepeth clean them that abide and walk in it If this were but a little felt such Doctrine as these which are gathered in the comprehension from words read without being let into the thing it self would soon vanish and find no place in the Heart where the Power dwells nor in the understanding which is renewed preserved and fed by the Power For the things of God are to be known and held in the understanding which is given of God which understanding is of the Spirit and is Spiritual and not wirh the natural understanding which cannot receive the things of the Spirit but onely a carnal apprehension and sence of the words of the Spirit according as a man can beat them out with and comprehend them in his reasoning part To the fifth That the Souls of the faithful are alwayes growing in grace whilst they are in the body and at the instant of death or separation from the body our Lord Jesus shall present them to the Father without spot or blemish Answ Christ presenteth to the Father when he hath purified the heart and mind and made it fit for Gods pure life and presence He hath received the fulness from the Father and hath freely given of his grace and of his truth to the sons of men to regenerate them to cleanse and sanctifie their hearts and make them fit for God to dwell in He sitteth in his Temple as a Refiner and Purifier of Silver who is like a Refiner's Fire and like Fuller's Soap and when he hath purified his Disciples his Children his Levites he presenteth them to the Lord for the Lord to Tabernacle and dwell in when he hath throughly consecrated them he presenteth them as Kings and Priests to his Father to offer up an Offering for Righteousness and to reign with him in his Kingdom Mal. 3.3 Rev. 1.5 And there were some so purified by the leaven of the Kingdom which purgeth out the old leaven by degrees even till at length it hath made the lump wholly new that to them all things were pure Titus 1.5 There were some come unto Mount Sion and unto the City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels to the general Assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus the Moderator of the New Covenant and to the Blood of Sprinkling Heb. 12.22 23 24. Thus it was before the Apostacy yea and after the Apostacy there were some found standing on Mount Sion again such as had learned the New Song such as were redeemed from the Earth such as were not defiled with Women with any of the false Churches or their false wayes of worship but had kept their Virginity in the Wilderness If ye would know who these were they were the first-fruits unto God and the Lamb after the Apostacy who were throughly cleansed by the Spirit of burning insomuch as in their mouth was found no guile but they were without fault before the Throne of God Revel 14. v. 1. to 6. The Work of the Spirit of Christ in the heart is an inward work and doth not consist in outward time or seasons but in spiritual degrees and seasons which when they are finished the heart renewed the spirit changed the work wrought out then the glory of the Father is revealed the entrance into the everlasting Kingdom Ministred and then there is a sitting down in the everlasting Mansion even with Christ in the Heavenly places which he hath prepared where they that are redeemed and purged and sanctified sit together with him and as the body cannot hinder his entring into the spirits of his Saints and his dwelling in them no more can it hinder their entring into him and dwelling in him Now there are several exercises of Spirit several measures

them up against another time and offer them up to God in his own will this would be but Will-worship and abomination This I have known experimentally and have selt the Wrath of God for it That is Prayer which comes fresh from the Spirit and that is a true desire which the Spirit begets but the affections and sparks of mans kindling please not the Lord nor do they conduce to the Souls rest but will end in the Bed of sorrow Isa 50.11 Now as touching the Book of Common-Prayer or Prayers conceived without the immediate breathings of the Spirit I shall speak mine own experience faithfully which is this I have felt both these wayes draw out the wrong part and keep that alive in me which the true Prayer kills And he that utters a word beyond the sence which God begets in his spirit takes God's Name in vain and provokes him to jealousie against his own soul God is in Heaven thou art on Earth therefore let thy words be few The few words which the Spirit speaks or the few still soft gentle breathings which the Spirit begets are pleasing to God and profitable to the Soul but the many words which mans wisdom affects hurt the precious life and thicken the vail of death over the Soul keeping that part alive which separates from God which part must dye e're the Soul can live The true Prayer is by that which God begets in the vertue of his Spirit praying alwayes in the Spirit Ephes 6.18 Jude 20. in the time he chuses for the Spirit breatheth as well when he listeth as where he listeth and man cannot limit him when he shall breath or when he shall not breath but is to wait the seasons of his breathing and so to watch unto Prayer Now if the Prayer be in words for there is a praying without words then it must be in those words which he pleaseth to give from the sence which he kindleth and not in the words which mans wisdom teacheth or would chuse to use And indeed in the true Religion and in every exercise of it mans wisdom is kept out and nail'd to the Cross by which means the immortal life is raised and grows in the true Disciple He believes he hopes he waits he prayes he mourns he rejoyces he obeyes c. in the Cross to the mortal part not as mans wisdom teacheth or would teach or can teach any of these things for his Sacrifice is still an abomination even to the wise Egyptian part in himself O wise man abase thy self before the Lord in his Spirit that thou mayest read this and live but as the life teacheth as the Wisdom from above teacheth which breaketh down shutteth up confoundeth and destroyeth mans wisdom while he is teaching his Babe Thus have I answered in the simplicity of my heart to the nature of the thing so far as the Lord hath pleased to draw forth my spirit and in sinking down to that which thus opened my spirit my Answer may easily be read and assented to but to that which is in the disputing wisdom out of the feeling of the hidden life and vertue it may prove a Mystery Afterwards he also intreateth me to peruse seriously and to lay deeply to heart in the real fear and dread of the great God some particulars which he teacheth for Truths I perceive he is offended at the questioning of his Ministry and that the main intent of his proposing these is to justifie his Ministry which if they were true yet the preaching of them would not prove him or any man else to be a Minister of Jesus Christ for it is not preaching things that are true which makes a true Minister but the receiving of his Ministry from the Lord. The Gospel is the Lords which is to be preached and it is to be preached in his Power and the Ministers which preach it are to be endued with his Power and to be sent by him The Apostles themselves though they had received instructions concerning the Kingdom from Christs own lips both in his life-time and after his Resurrection Act. 1.3 and had received a Commission from him to teach all Nations Matth. 28.18 19. Yet this was not sufficient to make them able Ministers of the New Testament but before they went abroad to Preach they were to wait for the Power Act. 1.4 8. And when they had received it they were to minister in it that men might be converted to the Power and by the Power that the Faith of persons might not stand in the wisdom of their words which Paul might have abounded in as well as others but in the Power of God 1 Cor. 2.5 And this was it made Paul minister in fear and trembling lest the wrong part in him should minister lest the earthly understanding part should be holding forth the Truths of God out of the Life out of the Power and so he should Convert men to the Wis●●m of the words he spake and not to the Power v. 2 3. This was it he was sent for to turn men from darkness to light from the Power of Satan to God Acts 26.18 from the spirit of enmity and death to the Spirit of Love and Life and this he was careful of in his Ministry that men might not run away with his words and miss of the thing And this also was the way whereby he discovered true and false Ministers I will come and know saith he not the speech of them which are puffed up but the Power for the Kingdom of God is not in word but in Power 1 Cor. 4.19 20. Many men might catch their words and run away with them and Preach them but they could not Minister in the Power Now the Kingdome which the Gospel-Ministers are the Preachers of consists not in words but in Power God hath made us able Ministers of the New Testament not of the Letter but of the Spirit 2 Cor. 3.6 The Ministry of the New Testament is a Ministry of the Spirit and it cannot be without the Spirit It is a reaching to men's Consciences in the demonstration of the Spirit and of Power 1 Cor. 2.4 and 2 Cor. 4.1 2. which being felt in the heart and turned to this converts them to God The Ministry of the Gospel doth not consist in a bare opening of the Letter or raising of Doctrines and Uses from the Letter which the wisdom of man may easily perform as the Ministry of the Law did but in bringing men to the feeling of the Spirit even of the Eternal Power of God which redeems in turning men from the darkness to the Light in setting their faces towards the Power The Gospel is the substance of what was shadowed out in the Law and he that Ministers it must Minister substance He must have the heavenly Treasure that 's the substance in his earthen vessel 2 Cor. 4.7 and he must give out of this Treasure into the vessel which God prepares and that he may do this he must