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A90391	An examination of the grounds or causes, which are said to induce the court of Boston in New-England to make that order or law of banishment upon pain of death against the Quakers; as also of the grounds and considerations by them produced to manifest the warrantableness and justness both of their making and executing the same, which they now stand deeply engaged to defend, having already thereupon put two of them to death. As also of some further grounds for justifying of the same, in an appendix to John Norton's book ... whereto he is said to be appointed by the General Court. And likewise of the arguments briefly hinted in that which is called, A true relation of the proceedings against the Quakers, &c. Whereunto somewhat is added about the authority and government which Christ excluded out of his Church ... By Isaac Penington, the younger.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1166; Thomason E1020_5; ESTC R203130	87,615	103

in the blood or prayer or watchfulness to keep the garment pure c. nor growth in the life And this we are not ashamed to profess that we are pressing after and some have already attained very far even to be made perfect as pertaining to the conscience being so ingrafted into Christ the power of God so planted into the likeness of his death and resurrection so encompassed with the walls and bulwarks of salvation as that they feel no condemnation for sin but a continual justification of the life being taught led and inabled to walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8.1 From what they bave said concerning this opinion of perfection as they call it they draw an argument against their other doctrines in these words Such fundamentals of Christianity are overthrown by this one opinion of theirs and how more by all their other doctrines Ans To which I shall say this if their grounds and proofs against any other doctrines of the Quakers be no more weighty and demonstrative then those they have here brought forth against the doctrine of perfection they may spare entertaining prejudices against them and condemning them and in the first place weigh them in a more equall ballance than they have done this And I dare appeal to any naked unbyassed spirit who shall fairly consider what is above written whether the doctrine of perfection be such an hideous error as they have represented it Nay whether it be not a precious truth of the Gospel of Christ and a great incouragement to him who shall follow the command of Christ who saith be ye perfect to believe that in the way of faith and obedience he may be wrought up to such an estate by the free grace mercy love and power of God Yea let me add this word more he that feeleth the everlasting arme working one sin out of his heart cannot but believe that the same arme can work out all and pluck up every plant which the heavenly father hath not planted which hope and beliefe causeth him with joy to follow this arme through the regeneration But if I did believe there were no perfecting the worke of redemption in this life but I must still in part be a slave to Satan still crying out of the body of sin and death and never have my heart purified for the holy one to inhabit in but remaine in part unconverted unchanged unregenerated unsanctified Oh how heavily should I go on I am sure it would be as a weight upon my spirit in resisting of sin and Satan This is not the glad tidings of the everlasting Gospel but sad news from the borders of death whith would keep the creature not only in the bonds of death but without hope of deliverance in this life and refer the hope to that day wherein there is no more working out of redemption but the eternall judgement of the tree as it fals Now having after this manner proved that the doctrines of the Quakers are destructive to the fundamental truths of religion they lay down their argument whereupon they conclude that it is lawful for them nay their duty to put them to death in these words Now the commandement of God is plain that he that presumes to speak lies in the name of the Lord and turns people out of the way which the Lord hath commanded to walk in such an one must not live but be put to death Zech. 13.3 Deut. 13.6 and 18.20 Answ 1. By what hath been said against them it is not manifest that they have spoken lies in the name of the Lord. Nay if they themselves who thus charge them could but soberly and mildly with a Christian spirit weigh the thing would it not rather appear that they in thus falsly charging them and managing such untrue and unrighteous arguments against them have spoken lies both concerning them and against the Lord and his truth And as for turning men out of the way that cannot be justly charged on them who turn men to Christ the living way and deliver the same message the Apostles did that God is light and in him is no darkness at all who point them to that place where God hath said this light is to be found which is the heart where God writes the new Covenant and the Laws thereof Heb. 8. where the word of faith is nigh Rom. 10. surely they that direct hither do not turne men out of the way But they that point men to guess at the meanings of Scriptures and to gather knowledge and form rules to themselves out of it by their own natural wit and understanding which can never reach the mysteries of the kingdome of God and which God hides the true knowledge of the Scriptures from these are those that turn men out of the way For they that rightly understand the Scriptures must first receive a measure of the spirit to understand it with even as they that wrote any part thereof did first receive a measure of the spirit to write it by 2. It is not manifest by these places quoted that the Governours of New-England have received authority from the Lord to put the Quakers to death if their doctrines were such as they accuse them to be That of Deut. 13.6 is a manifest case concerning one that should tempt to the following of other Gods of the Gods of the people round about nigh or far off in such a case the offender was to be stoned to death v. 10. but is this appliable to cases of doctrine That of Deut. 18.20 gives a clear note how the Prophet may be known that speaks a lie in the name of the Lord and what kind of lie it is for which he is to be put to death ver 22. but it doth not say that every man in the common-wealth of Israel that holdeth any doctrine contrary to what some of them might call the fundamental doctrines of the Law should be put to death That of Zech. 13.3 is a prophesy not a command and is not to be understood in mans wisdome nor to be fulfilled in mans will It were better to wait for the true openings of prophesies in the spirit than to let the carnal part loose to gather somewhat out of them for the satisfying of the flesh and making its thirst after the blood of Gods lambs appear more plausible I would but put this question to your consciences in the sight of God whether in a conscientious submission to the will of God in this scripture ye put them to death or whether from this scripture ye seek a shelter and cover for the thing having already done it or fully purposed to do it So that the case is not here the same with any of the cases mentioned in those scriptures for if some of their doctrines were lies which ye have been very far from proving yet it was not for such kind of lies that death was appointed in the common-wealth of Israel And yet

AN EXAMINATION OF THE Grounds or Causes Which are said to induce the Court of Boston in New-England to make that Order or Law of Banishment upon pain of Death against the Quakers As also of the Grounds and Considerations by them produced to manifest the warrantableness and justness both of their making and executing the same which they now stand deeply engaged to defend having already thereupon put two of them to death As also of some further Grounds for justifying of the same in an Appendix to John Norton's Book which was Printed after the Book it self yet as part thereof whereto he is said to be appointed by the General Court And likewise of the Arguments briefly hinted in that which is called A true Relation of the Proceedings against the Quakers c. Whereunto somewhat is added about the Authority and Government which Christ excluded out of his Church which occasioneth somewhat concerning the true Church-Government By Isaac Penington the Younger The Stone the Builders refused is become the head of the Corner This is the Lords doing it is marvellous in our eyes Psal 118.22 23. I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto Babes Even so Father for so it seemed good in thy sight Mat. 11.25 26. LONDON Printed for L. Lloyd next to the Sign of the Castle in Cornhill 1660. To the Rulers Teachers and People of NEW-ENGLAND MAny a weary step hath my poor soul fetched and many difficulties and hardships hath it met with in its pursuit after truth The immortal seed hath deeply suffered in me through the mists of darkness and various stratagems and powers of the enemy which have often encompassed me and distressed my Spirit exceedingly I have known many battels received deep wounds yea and have been in deaths and graves often where the living seed hath languished for want of the living spring Yet this thing to the praise and glory of the preserver of Israel may I speak the sence of God and the savour of his Spirit was never wholly taken away from me though many times I knew it not but was too apt to distrust it being ignorant of the way of its appearing in me The Scriptures I alwayes exceedingly prized and a deep knowledge of them from an experimental sence of the things they spake of was bestowedon me but I knew not what it was which gave me the knowledge nor how it sprang but went about still to fix it in the letter and so gave away the glory from the spirit which shines above and beyond the letter and ought so to be acknowledged Before this despised people appeared I was even quite worn out and said my hope is cut off from the Lord there is no such appearance of him to be looked for as my poor distressed soul wants Live without the presence of his spirit I could not where to meet with his spirit could I hear no news and that pretious knowledge which I had had through the operation of God upon my heart from the living spring the same hand which gave me also brake in pieces and pulled down that inward building which was reared up in my Spirit What a man of sorrows I became hereupon how I mourned all the day long and roared out after my God all the night season is not to be uttered And if it might be the Lords pleasure O that my misery might end with me and that this might be the issue of all my sufferings to fit me to be a faithful instrument in the hand of the Lord for the preserving of others there from Now this was it which undid me namely the getting up of the fleshly wisdome and understanding which though God had broken in me mightily several times yet it still had some secret device or other to creep in again unto me and to twine about my spirit undiscerned by me but this effect still attended it by degrees like a canker it eat out the sweetness and freshness of my life and Spirit and exalted that part in me which God hides the mysteries of his kingdome from At my first acquaintance with this rejected People that which was eternal of God in me opened and I did immediately in my spirit own them as children of my Father truly begotten of his life by his own spirit but the wise reasoning part presently rose up contending against their uncouth way of appearance and in that I did disown them and continued a stranger to them and a reasoner against them for above twelve months and by weighing and considering things in that part was still further and further off from discerning their leadings by the life and spirit of God into those things But at length it pleased the Lord to draw out his sword against that part in me turning the wisdome and strength thereof backward and to open that eye in me again wherewith he had given me to see the things of his kingdome in some measure from a child and then I saw and felt them grown in that life and spirit which I through the treachery of the fleshly-wise part had been estranged to and had adulterated from And now what bitter dayes of mourning and lamentation even for some years since I have had over this the Lord alone fully knows Oh I have known it to be a bitter thing to follow this wisdome in understanding of Scriptures in remembring of experiences and in many more inward wayes of workings than many can bear to hear The Lord hath judged me for that and I have born the burthen and condemnation of that which many at this day wear as their crown And now what am I at length A poor worm whom can I warn effectually whom can I help whom can I stop from running into the pit But though I am nothing I must speak for the Lord draweth and moveth me and how unserviceable soever my pitty be yet my bowels cannot but roul both towards those that are in misery and towards those that are running into misery Read in the fear and in the simplicity what was so written and the Lord open that eye in you which can see the way of life and discover the paths of the mystery of iniquity in its most hidden workings in the heart that ye sleep not the sleep of eternal death and so at last be awakned in the bowels of that wrath and fiery indignation which that spirit which erreth from and transgresseth the life and light within can neither bear nor escape J. P. AN EXAMINATION OF THE Grounds or Causes which are said to induce the Court of Boston in New-England to make that Order or Law of Banishment upon pain of death against the Quakers As also of the Grounds and Considerations by them produced to manifest the warrantableness and justness c. THat in New-England there hath been a Law made of Banishing the Quakers so called and of death in

of Moses and the Prophets was not the law of the Children of the new covenant as such not in the time of the old covenant The law of Moses was the rule of their outward state it was the rule of the outward Israel but not the rule of the inward Israel no not then in those dayes In Deut. 29.1 Moses makes a Covenant with Israel by express command from God besides the former covenant which he made with them in Horeb. And he saith the commandment of this Covenant is not to be looked for where the other was written but in another place in a place neerer to them even in ther mouth and in their heart there they were to read hear and receive the commandment of this covenant For this commandement which I command thee this day it is not hidden from thee neither is it far off Deut. 30.11 it not in heaven ve 12. neither is it beyond the sea ver 13. but the word is very nigh unto thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou mayst do it ver 14. and this was the way of life then ver 15. see saith Moses I have set before thee this day life and good and death and evil Here thy eternal happiness depends obey this word and live disobey it and die And if they had kept to this word they would also have walked in obedience to the Law but neglecting this they could never keep the Law but still came under the curse of it and missed of the blessings They thought to please God with sacrifices and oyle and incense and observing new Moons and Sabbaths wherein the Lord still rejected them for want of their obedience to this word and the Prophets still guide them to this word bidding them circumcise their hearts which alone can be done by this word and wash away the evil of their doings which alone can be done by this water Yea after much contest between the Lord and them when they seemed very desirous to please the Lord with what he should require whether burnt offerings calves rams or oyl in great plenty the Prophet laies by all that and points them to the obedience of this word as the way to please God and as the only thing that he required of them He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God Micah 6.8 All this is written in thy heart man read there obey that word that is the thing that God requires So Davids Law was the word written in his heart he saw through sacrifices and burnt offerings to the inward writing and this made him wiser than all his teachers who were busied about the outward The outward Law was but a shadow of good things to come it made nothing perfect but David knew a perfect law The Law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul Psal 19.7 3. The Scriptures of the New-Testament never call themseves the rule but they call another thing the rule they call the writings of Gods spirit in the hearts of his people the Laws of the new Covenant Heb. 8.10 they call Christ the way the truth the life John 14.6 the way is the rule the truth is the rule the life is the rule they call the new creature the rule walking according to which the peace and mercy is received and injoyed Gal. 6.16 they refer to the comforter as the guide into all truth John 16.13 yea as the compass of all truth wherein the believer is to have his whole life and course Gal. 5.25 live in the spirit walke in the spirit follow the spirit keep within that compass and ye connot err A man may err in understanding and interpreting of Scriptures but he that hath received the spirit knoweth the spirit followeth the spirit keepeth to the spirit so far as he doth so cannot possibly err So saith Iohn writing concerning seducers warning against them 1 Iohn 2.26 Ye have received an anointing which teacheth you of all things keep to the teachings of that in every thing and ye are safe But may we not be deceived Nay the annointing keeps from all the deceit in the heart and from all the deceits of seducers it is truth and no lie ver 27. and it leads into all truth and our of every lie And this will teach you to abide in him In whom in the word which was from the beginning which is ingrafted into the heart of the believer and into which the heart of the believer is ingrafted and so he truly is in the vine and the sap of the vine runs up into him which makes him fruitful to God he abiding in the word which he hath heard from the beginning and the word which was from the beginning abiding in him ver 24. And the Apostle Paul saith expresly that the righteousness of faith cometh by the hearing of this word making the same word the rule to the children of the new covenant now as Moses said was the commandement of God to them then quoting this place of Moses for it Rom. 10 6. c. So that Paul indeed taught nothing but Moses and the Prophets pointing to the very same word and commandement of eternal life as Moses had done That is the word of faith which we preach that word which Moses taught which he said was nigh in the heart and in the mouth no man need ascend up to heaven or go down to the deep or seek any where else for it that 's the very thing we point you to that 's the word of faith that 's the commandement of life And with what zeal would Paul were he now alive in the body declare against such who should over-look or deny this word and set up his writing with the writings of the rest of the Apostles for a rule instead thereof yea I could shew yet further how the spirit of prophecy or testimony of Jesus or living appearance of God in the heart hath been a rule to the witnesses against Antichrists deceit all along the night of Apostacy Rev. 11.3 and 19.10 though they themselves being in the night distinctly knew not what was their rule but by a secret breath of life were quickned guided preserved and in it accepted but these things will open of themselves as the mist is expelled and the vail rent which hath over-spread all Nations and covered professors generally in this night of Antichristian darkness and universal apostacy from the living power 2. Consider whether the Scripture be your rule or no that is whether in singleness of heart ye wait on the Lord to open the Scriptures to you by his spirit and to keep out your carnal reason from thence which cannot understand them but will be wresting them and making them speak as it would have them or whether ye take scope to search into them with that part which ever was shut out from the right knowledge of