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A54049	The root of popery struck at, and the true ancient apostolick foundation discovered, in some propositions to the papists concerning fallibility and infallibility, which cut down the uncertain, and manifest the certain way of receiving and growing up into the truth : also, some considerations concerning the true and false church and ministry, with the state of each since the dayes of the apostles : held forth in true love and pity to the souls of the papists, that they may hear and consider, and not mistake and stumble at the rock of ages, whereupon the prophets, apostles, and whole flock of God throughout all generations have been built : there is likewise somewhat added concerning the ground of error, and the way to truth and unity, for the sake of such as are more spiritual, and have been more inwardly exercised in searching after truth / by Isaac Penington, the younger.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1185; ESTC R18235	18,931	26

better deceive Now when man is first breathed upon and begotten towards God there 's but a little life a little simplicity a little Light a little Power a little of the Wisdom of the true Babe but a great Body of Death Deceit Darkness Power and Wisdom of the Flesh standing And all these apply themselves to overturn destroy the truework of God by raising up a false Image of it which is easily done but abiding and preservation in the Truth is difficult and alone maintained by that Power which at first begat Now the Power preserves through keeping out of the sensual and reasoning part where the corrupt one hath his lodging in that poor low little childish sensibility of the life which the Father hath begotten Here is the entrance unto the Truth here is the growth here is the preservation and safety Which makes it so hard for those that are wise and strong in the reasoning and comprehending part either to enter in or to abide and grow in the nakedness simplicity and seeming folly of the truth of the Gospel Oh what a deal is to be brought down before they can be truly reached and convinced by the foolish weak things which God chuseth to effect his great Works by 1 Cor. 1.27 28 What a Work hath God with them to batter their Wisdom and bring down their Understanding which the larger it is the more it stands in the way of his Light 1 Cor. 1.19 And if they be convinced at any time what an easie and natural return unto them doth their own Wisdom find by some subtil device or other to draw them back from the plainness and singleness of the Truth into an holding it in the wisdom and subtilty of the understanding part where the simplicity is soon lost 2 Cor. 11.3 In the Spirit which begets and in the Truth which is begotten by it is the true Unity Feeling that in one another is that which unites us to one another Every one keeping to that in his own particular is kept to that which unites and that is kept alive in him which is to be united But departing from that there is a departing from the true Unity into the Error and ground of division And then that which hath erred and departed from the true unity strives to set up a false Image of unity and blames that which abides in the Truth because it cannot thus unite For that which abides in the Spirit and in that which the Spirit hath begotten and formed cannot unite according to the flesh as that which is run a whoring from the Spirit into an Image of the fleshly Wisdom's forming cannot unite according to the Spirit Consider this O ye Professors of this Age ye blame us for departing from you for withdrawing from unity with you we blame you for departing from the living Principle wherein our unity with you formerly stood and wherein alone we can again unite with you and not in such things as uphold a fleshly and false Image of the true Unity Oh that ye could hear the Lord's voice who cryeth aloud to the Professors of this Age to cease from man Cease from man in thy self O thou who hast ever had any taste of the pure Grace and Power of God Cease from thine own understanding thine own affections thine own zeale thine own gathered knowledge and wisdome from the Scriptures with all the sparks of thine own kindling that God may be all in thee and his eternal habitation be raised up in thee and perfected thou swallowed up and comprehended in it for ever Oh what a Work hath God to do to drive man's Reason and VVisdom out of his Temple out of his Scriptures out of all his holy things He that hath an ear let him hear for the sake of his souls eternal peace Alas Alas how many stumble at and blaspheme that which alone can save the soul There have been many dispensations of but there is but one living Truth but one Substance but one Arm of Salvation And he that stumbles at the thing it self how can he be saved by it It is easie mis-understanding a former dispensation reading it in the Letter and so to miss of the Salvation hoped for by it The Jews owned the Messiah according to the Scriptures as they thought but rejected him in the way he came to save them in Now if Christians have gathered such a kind of knowledge from the Letter of the Scriptures as they did how can they avoid the same error namely of owning Christ according to the Scriptures as they think but rejecting him as he comes to save them rebelling against his living Ministry and the pure povver and demonstration of his Spirit because it appears vveak lovv because it doth not appear the same thing to them vvhich they expect to be saved by according to their apprehensions of the Scriptures Thus reading the Scriptures in another Spirit Wisdom then that which vvrote them they must needs conclude and gather another thing from them then what is vvritten in them and so make that a means to them of erring from the life which was written to testifie of and point to the living Principle from whence life and salvation springs and vvhere alone it is to be had THE END

THE ROOT OF POPERY Struck at And the True Ancient Apostolick Foundation DISCOVERED IN SOME Propositions to the PAPISTS Concerning FALLIBILITY and INFALLIBILITY which cut down the uncertain and manifest the certain way of receiving and growing up into the Truth Also Some CONSIDERATIONS concerning the true and false Church and Ministry with the state of each since the dayes of the Apostles Held forth in true love and pity to the Souls of the PAPISTS that they may hear and consider and not mistake and stumble at the ROCK of AGES whereupon the Prophets Apostles and whole Flock of God throughout all Generations have been built There is likewise somewhat added concerning the Ground of Error and the way to Truth and Unity for the sake of such as are more spiritual and have been more inwardly exercised in searching after Truth By ISAAC PENINGTON the younger In vain do they wo●ship me teaching for Doctrines the Commandments of men Matt. 15 9. LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Black-spread-Eagle and Wind-Mill in Martins L'Grand 1660. PREFACE THE Mystery of Iniquity which overspread the Earth under a shape and appearance of holy Church and holy Worship did begin to work in the Apostles dayes 2 Thes. 2.7 And this was the way whereby the god of this world did deceive he Endeavoured to blind mens minds to put out their right Eye 2 Cor. 4.4 to draw from the Spirit from the Annointing 1 Joh. 2.26 to rob of the Eye-Salve wherewith the Eye must be annointed to see the things of God Rev. 3.18 And now when he hath done this how easily may his false Ware pass for true his Synagogue built in the likeness of the true Church Rev. 3.9 for the true Church Antichrist his Son sitting in the Temple like Christ 2 Thes. 2 4. for the true Christ his Doctrines for the true Teaching Matth. 15.9 his feigned formal dead earthly Traditions for the true Everlasting Gospel Rev. 14.6 his Gentiles or Heathens who are so in nature and Christians onely in Name for the true Christians Rev. 11.2 The Light of the Body is the Eye saith Christ by way of Parable Mat. 6.22 23. Now if the Eye be dark if the Light which is in thee be darkness how great is that darkness How shalt thou see the Gospel the Church the Spirit the things of God But if that Eye be clear who shall be able to blind thee The Devil may come with his Deceits his false Church his false Gospel his false Power c. Yea though his Spirit creep into the very true form of godliness thou wilt be able to discern him there But if thou see with anothers Eye thou mayest easily see amiss mistake Christ mistake the Church and so believe as the false Church believes and fare as the false Church fares Oh who shall redeem the deceived Nations back to the Spirit Who shall preach to all Nations Kindreds Tongues and People the everlasting Gospel Who shall open the Eye in them which hath been so long blinded Who shall take the Golden Cup of Fornication from their lips and loosen their hearts from the Sorceries Flatteries and Enchantments of the false Woman The everlasting Bowels of the Lord rowl toward his poor captivated Seed and towards the poor deceived Nations and he is now preparing to build the Ruins of many Generations he is bringing forth that Power of Truth that Demonstration of his Spirit in the spirits of his People as no Paint shall be able to stand before He will rend the Vail of the Covering from off all Nations and the desire of all Nations shall be seen by the eye which he opens and annoints that which hath deceived and destroyed and led from the Truth building up a Mystery of Unrighteousness in the stead of it even the Beast and false Prophet which wrought Miracles with which he deceived them that had the mark of the Beast them that worshipped his Image shall be taken cast alive into the Lake Rev. 19.20 Then Captivity shall be led Captive and those which have been led captive shall creep out of their dens and out of their holes into the Light of the Living and worship the true and everlasting King when this King Abaddon is destroyed Rev. 15.2 3 4. O who shall be accounted worthy to be taught by the Lord where to wait for this To whom will the Lord discover the place of Wisdom the place where Wisdom is learned her Voice heard and her Instructions to life received which is hid from the eyes of all living Job 28.21 Whom shall he teach knowledge And whom shall he make to understand Doctrine They are them that are weaned from the Milk and drawn from the Breasts of the false Woman Isa. 28.9 chap. 52.15 They that are turned from man from the fleshly wisdom in themselves towards the spring of Life they may hear the Voice of this Wisdom which begins in the living Fear and Power which effectually turns the heart from death and darkness towards the living God to worship him in spirit and truth according to the pure living teachings thereof and not after the Inventions Imaginations and Traditions of men And he that is once come hither as he is true and faithful to the Light of Life doing the will as it is made manifest to him shall know more and more of the Doctrine Joh. 7.17 and have his feet infallibly guided into and preserved in the way of Peace The Root of Popery struck at And the true Ancient Apostolick Foundation discovered in some PROPOSITIONS to the PAPISTS concerning Fallibility and Infallibility c. Propos. 1. THat Councils may erre if I should add And have erred it might not be impossible to prove First In that they are men not perfected in the knowledge faith and obedience of the truth it necessarily implies a capacity of error both in relation to the knowledge to the faith and to the obedience 2dly Their doubtful disputation of things and long canvasing implies an uncertainty and possibility or erring 3dly Their way of determining things at last which is by a Vote of the major part is an uncertain way of determination for it is not impossible but the major part may be overswayed by by-ends relation to their own advantage interests against the righteousness and equity of the reason of the lesser part so that the way of determining things by a Council is not a certain way in it self but because men know not well how to find out a better and more probable way of deciding Controversies they judge it necessary to acquiesce therein But the Votes and Determinations of men concerning a thing do not conclude a thing to be true or false in it self they onely signifie their Opinion Judgement and Testimony concerning the thing the validity whereof depends upon their knowledge of the thing which if it be not clear full and certain their

them what they should believe which the Apostles never did but said expresly they had not dominion over the Faith of others but were helpers of their joy 2 Cor. 1.24 They could not command any to believe their Doctrine but spake in the demonstration of the Spirit waiting till God opened the heart 2 Cor 4.2 and would not have men profess believe or practice from their Words but by a feeling of the Power 1 Cor. 2.5 And when men did believe some things and came into the unity fellowship of the Faith they did not require them to believe all the that Church taught or held forth as true but waited till God pleased to reveal further Phil. 3.15 Indeed they could command obedience to the Faith What Truths the Spirit of the Lord revealed and taught any man they could charge him in the Name of the Lord to be faithful to Rom. 1.5 but they knew it was God alone who could ingraft the Truth into the heart and conscience and also give the encrease of it And so from him alone they expected it waiting in patience on the stubborn and perverse till God should please to work upon them 2 Tim. 2.24 25. and likewise on those that were convinced and had subjected themselves to the Faith for his encrease of it 1 Cor. 3.6 7. 2dly Their abridging mens liberty in things wherein God hath left them free and pressing an uniformity in things which they themselves confess to be indifferent Now the Apostle who had the care of all the Churches 2 Cor. 11 28 though he knew certainly how to determine about meats and dayes as himself confesseth Rom. 14.14 yet he telleth the Church at Rome expresly that Christ was the Lord and Master of every Disciple to whom he must stand or fall herein ver. 4. and that every man ought to do is he is fully perswaded in his own mind ver. 5. Nay he is so far from pressing a necessity of uniformity in such Cases that he presseth a necessity of bearing on each hand ver. 3. So that in the Apostles judgement the Church hath not Power to lay commands on the Conscience but must receive the weakest in the Faith ver. 1. leaving him to the liberty of his Conscience and to his subjection to his own Lord and Master to whom every Believer must give an account of what he receives and of what he obeys and performs ver. 10. and 12. 3dly Their setting up a Church-building Government and Discipline by the Magistrates Power This the Apostles no where taught nor practiced They converted men by the Power of the Spirit they cut down Errors Heresies Seducers and Hereticks by the same Word and they found the Weapons of their Warfare sufficient 2 Cor. 10.4 they had no need of running to the Magistrate But that Church those Doctrines that Government and Discipline which is set up by the Magistrates Sword without and against the Spirit that hath need of a carnal Sword to defend it against the Spirit and to cut down God's Witnesses whom he raiseth up to testifie against it for Schismaticks and Hereticks or its nakedness wil soon be made manifest it's ruin approach Now when the Lord hath judged all the Daughters of Babylon for these things then will he at length begin to plead with their Mother Babylon the great who hath gone a whoring from the Spirit and built up a gawdy Church without the Spirit which she hath defended by violence and blood drinking the Blood of the Saints who have been inspired by the Spirit to testifie against her Rev. 11.7 8. and hath taught all her Daughters to do the same to wit to drink the blood of the Witnesses against them even as she hath drunk the blood of the Witnesses that have testified against her And though because she hath had an half day more given her after her time seemed to be even expiring and after Judgement and Desolation was beginning to enter upon her though because of this she thinks the bitterness of death is past and she shall now sit as a Queen a Lady a glorious Church for ever Rev. 18.7 yet for all this is she come again into God's remembrance Rev. 16.19 and she shall see Widowhood and be cast into a Bed of Torment and all her Children into great Tribulation with her and she shall be desolate and naked and drink of the Cup and not repent that she might escape it Rev. 16.11 and 9.20 21. This is her portion from the hand of the Lord Oh happy is he whose eyes the Lord shall open to flee out of her for his life For the Lamb is arisen to make War and his Spouse is making her self ready for his pure Bed of Life his anger is kindled against all the Kings Powers of the Earth that stand in his way and though they fight never so resolutely against him and his meek ones they shall not prevail but the Lamb will overcome all for he is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and they that are with him in this Battle of his Spirit are called and chosen and faithful Rev. 17.14 And though this Woman the false Church in her various dresses is so strong every where getting the Earthly Powers and Authorities on her side that now it may be said concerning this Beast in the several appearances of it as was concerning the former Who is able to make war with her Yet there is an invisible Power stronger than she who will call her to judgement Rev. 18.8 and make her give an account of all the Saints blood which she hath drunk her self and which she hath taught her Daughters to drink And Salvation Glory Honor and Power shall be ascribed to the Lord for his righteous and powerful judging of her Rev. 19.1 2. And he that hath any glimmering of this in the eternal Light of the Lords pure ever-living Spirit let him even now say Alleluja to him who is arisen out of his holy habitation and hath already begun this Work who will not fail to perfect it Amen Somewhat concerning the GROUND of ERROR and the way to Truth and Unity for the sake of such as are more spiritual c. THere is no way to become an Heir of the Kingdom of God but by being begotten and born of his Spirit which blows upon the spirit of a man breaths life into him and forms him in the Eternal Image John 3.8 Gal. 4.19 There is no way of having this Work of God preserved but by turning to the Spirit which begets standing and keeping upright in that which is begotten and taking heed of the fleshly wisdom which stands near to corrupt and destroy the work of God tempting and leading aside from the Truth it self into some Image and Resemblance of it And if this prevail there is suddenly a departing from the living God and a running a whoring after the inventions of the fleshly Wisdom which appears in the likeness of the true Wisdom that it might the