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A54066	Some things relating to religion, proposed to the consideration of the Royal Society, (so termed) to wit, concerning the right ground of certainty therein, concerning tenderness of spirit, and persecution, a query concerning separation, concerning washing away sin from the conscience, and the garment of salvation, and what it is that is covered therewith : likewise, some questions and answers concerning the church of the New-Covenant, the rock of foundation whereon it is built, and its preservation by and upon the rock : with some queries concerning the scattered and hidden estate of the church, and concerning that church which got up in the view of the world, instead thereof, and was acknowledged by the world as if she had been the true church, though indeed and truth she was not so : whereunto are added, some queries to professors, who speak of high attainments, &c. / written by ... Isaac Penington.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1668 (1668)	Wing P1205; ESTC R13142	15,290	26

Commandment nigh in the mouth and heart to which Moses directed them which would have taught and enabled them to have kept to the Law of the Letter without them they also ran into the Nature and Spirit of the Heathen and fell into imaginings and reasonings which led them to worship like them Insomuch that they also changed their glory into the image of an Oxe that eateth grass Psal 106. 20. Now from this part in man ariseth all the uncertainty and doubts and dissatisfaction about Religion And hence arise the Opinions and Judgments and Reasonings in the minds of men Yea indeed the best of Mens Religion here is but an opinion or judgment which the breath of God's Spirit will shake and dissolve every where sooner or later All flesh is grass and all the beauty of men's Knowledg Religion and Worship here will wither like grass All the buildings and Churches that are raised here how beautiful soever are but Babylon built by man's understanding by man's knowledg by man's comprehension by man's wisdom by man's skill and indeed in man's will and time And their standing beauty strength and glory is but from man and in man's day and will fade away like a Flower But the true certainty is in the day of God from the Light of his spirit shining into man's spirit from God's inward reaching to his heart by his power and testifying his truth there And this all the powers of darkness cannot prevail against in it self no nor against that man that is kept to it For it is the Rock the only Rock upon which the whole Church is built and which cannot fail to preserve every member of the Church which is built upon it Ye then which would come to certainty in Religion observe the way which is made manifest from God in this our day blessed be his name which is this Mind the Witness of God in thy heart and come to and build upon the Light thereof Dwell not in reasonings take not up thy Religion in reasonings of the mind but pass through them pass beyond them into a light of an higher nature Wait to know the birth which is from God and the light which he gives to that birth What is the birth Is not the birth of and from the second Adam And what is the Heavenly birth's light Is it not the light of the second Adam Is it not in nature and kind above the light of the first Adam Where is the seat of reasonings Is it not the earthly mind the fallen mind Here lies man's strength Here is man's wisdom Here is man's life It is so indeed But the wisdom of Christ the light of Christ the life of Christ the power of Christ is a cross to this finds it in the enmity against God crucifies it slays it brings it to nothing and he that will become wise as to God must become a Fool unto all this a Child a Babe entring the Kingdom without this and must there remain naked as to this and never put it on more Now observe ye that have understanding and true sense the difference between the Religion which God hath taught us and led us into and the Religions of all men upon the Earth besides Our Religion stands wholly out of that which all their Religion stands in Their Religion stands in the Comprehension in a belief of a litteral relation or description Our Religion stands in a Principle which changeth the mind wherein the Spirit of Life appeareth to and witnesseth in the Conscience to and and concerning the things of the kingdom where we hear the voice and see the express Image of the invisible One and know things not from an outward relation but from their inward nature vertue and power Yea here we must profess we so know things that we are fully satisfied about them and could not doubt concerning them though there had never been word or letter written of them though indeed it is also a great comfort and sweet refreshment to us to read that testified of outwardly which through the tender mercy of our God we feel and enjoy inwardly And in this our whole Religion consists to wit In the silence and death of the flesh and in the quickning and flowing life of the spirit For he who is of the new-Birth of the new-Creation of the second Adam the Lord from Heaven is as really alive to God and as really lives to him in his spirit as ever he was really dead in trespasses and sins in the time of his alienation and estrangement from God Of Tenderness of Spirit and Persecution He which is born of God he who is of the Love and dwells in the Love cannot but be tender He who is born of the earthly Wisdom who taketh up and holdeth forth a Religion there cannot but persecute Why so Because he cannot but judg that any man may take up Religion as he hath done and so by reasonings may come to acknowledg and take up what he hath taken up and holdeth forth or else he is wilful and stubborn as he judgeth But now he that is born of God and hath received his Light Knowledg Religion and way of Worship from him He knoweth that no man can rightly receive them but the same way to wit from God by the Light which he causeth to shine into the heart at his pleasure and in the Faith which he gives So that God's free and powerful spirit is to be waited upon for the working of all in his people and not any forced to act beyond or contrary to the Principle of his Life and Light in them A Query concerning Separation Quer. Whether after the Apostacy from the Spirit Life and Power of the Apostles and the getting up of the Antichristian state Church and Worship there must not of necessity be a separation from all these before there can be a recovery of the Life and Power again and of the true Church-state which was brought forth in the daies of the Apostles Must there not be a perfect coming out of the corrupt state in the whole nature several parts and degrees of it before there can be a restoration to and witnessing of the true and pure state Must not the Christians now come out of all the Antichristian Inventions and Churches as well as the Christians of old came out of all the Heathenish worships yea out of the Jewish worship and Church which once was of God before they can become an holy building and habitation to God in the spirit Yea doth not the same spirit which cryed to the people of God then Come out from among them and be ye separate c. call and cry now Come out of her my people out of Babylon out of the false Church out of all the Antichristian buildings which are reared up after the several forms and waies of mens inventing but out of the spirit life and power which alone is able to build up in and unto the Lord And what is

Mercy of God to warn the Churches of these things in the Book of the Revelations And whether he can be safe in these respects who either doth not understand or not observe the warnings given by the Spirit of the Lord therein How often is it therein said He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit of God saith to the Churches It is also said Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this prophesie and keep those things which are written therein For the time is at hand He then that readeth not that hath not an ear to hear the words of this Prophesie how can he keep what is written therein How can he beware of and avoid the seeming Beauty and Glory of the false Church or suffer with the Faithful Witnesses of God in their Testimony against her And if he do not thus but is entangled by the false Church with her Golden Cup of Fornications Rev. 17. 4. he misseth of the blessing and ah what is he to meet with instead thereof My heart hath often melted within me and my bowels rowled at the consideration and deep sense which the Lord hath given me of these things and this I say therein to those that desire Life and Peace from God O wait on him for the eye which sees in his Light for the ear which hears his Voice and for the heart which understands the words and messages of his Spirit that ye may feel his gathering guidance and preservation out of that to which his wrath is for ever and against which his wrath is to be made more manifest and poured out more fully and abundantly than ever it yet was For the Lord will empty his Love and his Life into Sion and empty the very dregs and thick mixtures of the Cups of his Indignation into the very heart and bowels of Babylon and her sickness misery woe death and destruction will be exceeding dreadful and unutterable Therefore wait on the Lord in fear and singleness of Spirit crying and mourning to him to discover to you the extent and limits of this false Church this false Building this building in a form and outward order without the Life and Power of the Spirit and then fly as fast out of her and from her and as far as the Spirit of the Lord leads even till ye come to the Holy building which is of him and the Heavenly places which are prepared there by him for every one of his according to their growth and stature in his Son that ye may sit down in him Some Queries to Professors who speak of high attainments and experiences in Religion and yet do not witness nor can acknowledg the truth as the Lord hath now revealed it and done great things by it in the Spirits of his People but look upon it as a poor mean and low thing Q. 1. Have ye known the great and terrible day of the Lord wherein he ariseth to shake terribly the Earth And have ye known that shaken down in you which must be shaken down and removed as a Cottage before the everlasting kingdom can be estableshed in you Q. 2. Do ye know the Living Powerful Eternal Word which is quick and piercing sharper than any two-edged Sword dividing between Thought and Thought Grace and Grace as I may so speak Light and Light Life and Life Spirit and Spirit Power and Power c Have ye known it an Hammer a Fire an Axe laid to the Root of the corrupt Tree and do ye know the corrupt Tree Root Branches Leaves and Fruit so cut down by it as to cumber the ground no more Q. 3. Do ye know the Paradice of God and the Tree of Life there Do ye indeed feed thereon Have you passed through the Flaming Sword to the Tree of Life and is the Flaming Sword which once fenced from Life and the Power thereof set now to fence up the way to the Tree of Knowledg that ye may feed no more thereon and dye but feed only on that which is Life and gives Life and so live for ever Q. 4. Have ye witnessed the effects of the great and terrible day of the Lord in your Spirits Is Antichrist destroyed the Whore burnt Flesh consumed Man ceased from both within and without Is the Loftiness of Man bowed down in you the Mighty removed out of his seat and the Meek Holy Humble seed raised up to rule in Righteousness in your hearts Is every high Tower battered down and every fenced Wall laid flat are all your imaginations and conceivings and fleshly apprehendings upon Scriptures yea every pleasant Picture and Image of the things in Heaven formed in your minds brought to an end and the pure living truth of the Father waited for received from him and lived in Yea is the Lord alone exalted in your Spirits and all other Dominion Authority Rule and Lordship put under Q. 5. Do ye know the Mountain of the Lord's House and the Lord's House built and established by his own Holy Spirit and Power upon his own Holy Mountain and do ye worship the Lord alone therein Do ye come up to the New-Jerusalem to offer your sacrifices there according to the institution of the Gospel And do ye worship the Lord there on his own Day which he hath spiritually made And do ye bear no burthen kindle no fire do no work on that his Day Do ye never warm your selves at any fire or by any sparks of your own kindling Or are ye yet worshipping upon some of the many Mountains and Hills which the Lord hath not formed nor established but have been formed and set up by Man in the Night of Darkness before the everlasting Light of the Day brake forth Q. 6. Do ye know the Wilderness through which the passage is from Egypt to Canaan and have ye faithfully travelled in the leadings of God's Spirit therethrough and are ye entred into the pure rest thereof Are ye not under the Law but under Grace Not under the Enemy's power but under the Spirit 's power out of the other's reach so that the wicked one cannot touch you Have ye gone through the exercises and tryals of the Wilderness Have ye fed on the Manna dropt down from Heaven upon your Spirits therein Have ye drunk of the Water of the Rock Have ye seen the Serpent lifted up and felt the healing thereby Have ye witnessed the Pillar of Cloud by Day and the Pillar of Fire by Night to be your Defence and Leader And have ye now at length received the Kingdom of Life and sit under the shadow of it drinking Water out of your own Cistern and eating under your own Vine and Figtree the Fruits of the good Land after the shaking of that which was to be shaken now being come to and enjoying the Kingdom which cannot be shaken Have ye really felt these things or have ye been in the Dreams and Imaginings about them Q. 7. Do ye walk in the Light of the Lord as the Spiritual House of Jacob is to do Have ye received the Spirit Do ye live in the Spirit are ye truly united so as to become one Spirit with the Lord Are all the walls of partition broken down and is there nothing now between you but of two are ye made one in that which uniteth If it be thus with you then hold forth the right hand of fellowship to those whom the Lord hath brought hither and know and acknowledg that whereby the Lord hath wrought it in them But if ye be not really in the thing it self but only in the apprehensions and conceivings about it ye can never so be witnesses concerning these things nor concerning the truth whereby God works these things and ye will find there is a great gulf between you and us which ye cannot possibly pass over till ye meet with our Principle and Guide and Faithfully travel with him in the footsteps of the Flock that ye may come to the Shepherds Tents even the Tents which the Shepherd pitcheth and which no man can pitch and may know the true Tabernacle Sanctuary and Temple whereof he is the Minister THE END But this is not the state of them that sin wilfully after they have received the knowledg of the truth