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A90389	An eccho from the great deep: containing further inward openings, concerning divers other things, upon some whereof the principles and practises of the mad folks do much depend. As also the life, hope, safety and happiness of the seed of God, is pointed at; which through many dark, dismall, untrodden paths and passages (as particularly through an unthought of death and captivity) they shall at length be led unto. / Through Isaac Pennington (junior) Esq;.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1650 (1650)	Wing P1163; Thomason E618_1; ESTC R206346	113,201	142

sown which must have seasons pass over it before it spring up must rot and dye before it live though in its rotting it doth not rot and in its dying it doth not dye and when it doth spring up must grow gradually and undergo many changes before it cometh to maturity There is a double sowing one of Christs another of ours Christ soweth and we sow Christ soweth in us and we sow unto him He sows the seed of life in us and this life in us sows the seed of living motions towards him and of living operations in him it moves spiritually towards Christ it works spiritually in Christ Every motion of life put forth towards Christ is a sowing Every act of faith of love of joy of expectation of contentedness and submission of spirit under his dispose is a sowing He that soweth unto the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth unto the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting To be spiritual to move spiritually to live spiritually is to sow unto the spirit as to be carnal to move carnally to live carnally according to the will and desire of the flesh is to sow unto the flesh Now all these all these motions all these operations this life with all the buddings forth of it must be thrown into the Earth dye there be gone and lost a long season before they come to any thing so that the flesh which had great hopes because of them great delight in them and great desire after them will lose all its expectation be weary of its delight and let fall its desire and will be vehemently perswading the spirit to do so also To what purpose is it to beleeve to what purpose is it to pray to what purpose is it to deny ones self and to suffer in so many kindes All comes to nothing he whose spirit multiplyeth in these multiplyeth sorrow unto himself c. True all these are thrown into the Earth lost and gone for ever to all sight and appearance they come to nothing a great deal of pains and trouble there is but to no purpose And how can it be otherwise seeing the time of reaping nay perhaps of growth is not yet come But wait run the venture as you see the husbandman is fain to do who expects a crop Be ye also patient Follow their example wait and wait long as ye see they do Stablish your hearts Do not give way to frights to discouragements from present pressures which may dishearten you and make your waiting irksom but stablish your hearts to wait It will come it will be worth all your waiting for it when it comes and the longer it stays the more weighty will it be in it self and the sweeter to you Be content then to stay for it and to expect nothing but trouble and misery until you meet with it For the Coming of the Lord draweth nigh It is a great encouragement to wait if one be neer the attaining of what one waits for And this great advantage Faith hath always had to represent things very neer as neer as they can be desired to be The Coming of the Lord is a great way off to the eye of man so far off that he can hardly forbear scoffing at the spiritual man for speaking of it as nigh at hand but close by to the eye of Faith even as near as Faith would have it Faith would have nothing wrought otherwise then it is he that sees every thing with a spiritual eye can dislike nothing it would not have any thing come sooner then it is appointed to come It is the flesh which shall never be saved that is so hasty after Salvation but he that beleeveth doth not make haste but stayeth willingly till Salvation be ripe and till he be ripened for Salvation It is the foolish flesh that thinks it self wise enough to cut out its own season and proportion of deliverance but the truly and spiritually-wise-childe knoweth his degree of wisdom the degree of wisdom allotted him doth not amount high enough for this undertaking and therefore yeeldeth it up to the dispose of the wisdom of the Father The flesh is much troubled that it cannot have things times and seasons at its own dispose the spirit or spiritual childe would not have them at its own dispose if it might The spirit in the spirit of the childe teacheth it contentedly from choyce and with delight to give up it self to the dispose of the spirit in the spirit of the Father Surely it cannot but seem strange to the eye of man that the Apostles should then in their times so many ages ago speak of the coming of Christ as so nigh and that it should yet be so far off but Faith can digest very well Faith sees the certainty of it the suddenness of it yea that it is already in motion Behold he that cometh will come and will not tarry He is certainly a coming and he will come on he will not stay He comes he comes he wo'nt step back again he will come on forward nay he wo'nt stand still he will not tarry Behold he cometh leaping over the mountains skipping over the hills Arise shine thy light is come Lift up your heads your Redemption draweth nigh Howl ye who have thriven and grown rich in his absence your delight your content your life your peace your happiness is ended your Sun is set Spring forth with joy and singing ye weak ye sick ye poor faint distressed spirits the Sun of righteousness is risen with healing in his wings he is coming to anoint you with the oyl of salvation and gladness to wipe away all tears from your eyes and so to fill you with joy as ye shall be able to grieve or weep no more He will appear the second time without sin to Salvation ye have been long talking of Salvation when he cometh again ye shall know what it meaneth ye shall feel what it is and it will not be long ere he come he is upon his march already hastening towards you coming on apace the appointed time of his absence is wearing out amain and the time of his return approaching The day is at hand the Coming of the Lord draweth nigh Even so Amen Come Lord Jesus come quickly redeem the time of thy long delay and come quickly yea very quickly The Spirit of the Bride saith Come and he that is athirst saith Come Come O Water of Life or I perish come O Bread of Life or I famish Come Come ERRATA'S Pag. 24. l. 6. r. a new-man P. 30. l. 27. r. doth not onely P. 31. l. 28. r. this is the. P. 74. l. 28. r. lives safe P. 78. l. 23. r. diverts P. 79. l. 1. r. and bonds P. 109. l. 28. r. out of The Contents 1. OF the difference between God and the Creature Pag. 1 2. Of Good and Evil. Pag. 3 3. Of the Devil Pag. 5 4. Of Righteousness Holiness and Happiness Pag. 9 5. Of Redemption Pag. 10 6. Of Faith Pag. 12 7. Of Love Pag. 14 8. Of Self-denyal Pag. 21 9. Of Christ from John 1.1 Pag. 24 10. Of the two Principles Seeds or Creations their different Natures Motions and Ends. Pag. 35 11. Of the New-Birth whence Faith and Love flows and to which Redemption with all the priviledges of it appertain from Joh. 1.12 Pag. 39 12. Of the excellent Nature of this Birth or of the Child thus begotten thus born from Joh. 3.6 Pag. 42 13. Of the excellent Food prepared for this New-born-child to nourish him and cause him to grow from Joh. 6.63 Pag. 44 14. Some Properties which attend this New-born-child in his non-age while he is growing up to his inheritance from Matth. 5.3 c. Pag. 47 15. Of the Fathers care over this Child and his readiness to provide for him every thing he needs from Luke 11.13 Pag. 51 16. A strange Occurrence which may befall this Darling of God and of Christ in his pilgrimage and travel towards his native Country hidden in a Parable John 11. Pag. 53 17. Of the Relation between Christ and his and the Hold they have of each other from Joh. 10.14 Pag. 58 18. Of the New Covenant from Hebr. 8.10 11 12. Pag. 65 19. The way to Life which is through the death of that which we account and press after as life and particularly through the Captivity of the Life it self from 2 Cor. 12.7 8 9 10. Pag. 83 20. The Way to true Knowledg from 2 Cor. 5.16 Pag. 100 21. Of the Seasons varieties and changes in the inward World which answer to the seasons varieties and changes in the outward World which is a map or picture of them according to that description given by that wise Observer of the course of Nature Eccles 3.1 c. Pag. 106 22. The secret hidden most inward voyce and demeanor of Sion in the time of her Captivity from Lament 3.24 c. Pag. 111 23. The Ruine Destruction and utter Desolation of Babylon from Revel 18.21 Pag. 121 24. An Exhortation to such in whom the seed of Life is sown to wait for the growth and happy success of it from James 5.7 8. Pag. 125 FINIS

skill whereby he wrought it Vers 28. When he established the Clouds above when he strengthened the Fountains of the deep The Clouds had need be well fastened or they would soon drop down They are such great Curtains they had not need only be fastened at the ends but up and down every where God perceived this well enough in his making and stretching them out and therefore when he had made them and set them in their places he established them And the Fountains that continually yeeld so much water the Fountains of the deep that must yeeld waters to maintain all Seas and Rivers and supply the continual expence of waters from each whereof the Earth sucks in much and from whence the multitude of creatures both on the Earth and in the Ayr draw much had need of good store it requites a great stock to nourish these therefore the Lord when he had made them he strengthened them that they might have fulness in themselves and be able to fill all their vessels Vers 29. When he gave to the Sea his Decree that the Waters should not pass his Commandment when he appointed the Foundations of the Earth The Sea is very violent and unruly not to be tamed by mankinde as other creatures are The Foundations of the Earth are very vast things as hard to be mastered as tha Sea But God who made both knows how to rule both and when he divided them he gave each their bounds He gave the Sea his Decree hither may it go but here must it stop the pride of its waves must not swell further Neither may the Foundations of the Earth thrust the Sea out of its place but keep their own station and limits which he likewise appointed them Vers 30. Then I was by him as one brought up with him and I was dayly his delight rejoycing always before him I then stood by him and saw him do all these things and understood his meaning and intent comprehending him fully in every one of them I was then as one that stood by him having the view and comprehension of his whole operation in this Fabrick from first to last Nor was I by him as one then newly brought forth as the first peece of the Creation but as one brought up with him as one who had always been with him as one in whom he always delighted whom he could never tell how to pass a day pleasantly without I was dayly his delight Christ is the delight of God he whom God evermore delighted in he who was still so like himself so perfect and unchangeable in the Image of himself that God could not but take continual pleasure in beholding himself in this glass yea he was so taken with this representation of himself that he could never leave off looking on it He could never forbear looking on him and every look was pleasant to him it is impossible for God to be cloyed with Christ I was dayly his delight Man is not so pleased to behold himself as to behold his Image in his Son that is his pleasure his content the delight of his heart And 't is the delight and pleasure of God not simply to see himself in himself but to see himself brought forth in Christ to behold this Image this draught of himself perfectly brought forth eternally durable to behold every thing of himself brought forth in him living in him acting in him This is his delight the very joy of his heart Rejoycing always before him Christ is not onely delightful to God but delightful in himself before God rejoycing before him Gods heart is full of joy and delight in Christ and because of Christ and Christs heart is full of joy before God he is ever rejoycing Where God and Christ are together there is nothing but delight and joy delight in God joy in Christ God delighting in Christ and Christ rejoycing before God Rejoycing always before him The mirth and rejoycing of the Childe is exceedingly pleasing to the Father specially when it is in his presence and when it flows from the delight and pleasure he hath in the Father The Father is pleased with all his excellencies and perfections as they are brought forth in Christ Christ he is pleased with them as they dwell originally in the Father The Father pours out his own Spirit of Joy into the Son anointing him abundantly with the oyl of gladness and the Son pours forth that joy abundantly and continually in the presence of the Father he is ever rejoycing before him rejoycing in the Person of the Father delighting in the Works of the Father leaping to see how every thing comes from him how every thing returns to him how every thing makes for him how every thing is full of him how every thing is fully in him Oh how ravishing would it be to any eye to any heart to behold things in Christ as God beholds them there or to behold things in God as Christ beholds them there He who once is led to this will meet with true joy with Christ with true delight with God he cannot forbear delighting himself in Christ with God nor from rejoycing continually with Christ before God Vers 31. Rejoycing in the habitable part of his earth and my delights were with the sons of men Christ doth onely rejoyce in God but in every thing that comes from God as God doth not onely rejoyce in Christ but in every thing that he brings forth through Christ There is nothing displeaseth Christ in any thing but its distance from God There is nothing displeaseth God in any thing but its distance from Christ They so entirely love one another that they care not for beholding any thing desire not to enjoy any thing but in one another Rejoycing in the habitable part of his earth Heaven and Earth and all things in both had a Being in God a more compleat substantial Being then this shadowy Being wherein they are brought forth and outwardly appear There Christ knew them there Christ rejoyced in them from thence Christ brought them forth into this state and kinde of being wherein they are thither will Christ bring them back again and rejoyce in them again alass this present state is not a state to be rejoyced in His Earth The Earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof It is his own it came from him it was framed by him he made the matter of it he formed and shaped it it was what it was by him it is what it is according to his pleasure and for him it is subjected to weakness and vanity for his sake and he knows and owns it in a way unknown to it in the midst of all its weakness and vanity Man if he be a little exalted doth presently despise that which appears weak and beneath him but God who is mighty in strength and wisdom despiseth not Job 36.5 The habitable part of his Earth In the Earth in his Earth there are habitable and inhabitable parts