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A90396 Some few queries and considerations proposed to the Cavaliers, being of weighty importance to them. Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679. 1660 (1660) Wing P1194; Thomason E1022_1; ESTC R203315 6,433 8

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and are willing to learn of him to worship him in Spirit and in truth God is a spirit and such as worship him must worship in his spirit John 4.24 and such as live to him must live in his spirit such as walk with him must walk in his spirit Gal. 5.25 this is the true Gospel religion first to wait for the promise of the Spirit and then to Worship and walk with God in the Spirit Now will ye not suffer God to enjoy the worship of his own People into whose spirits he breaths life and whom he formes and begets into his own likeness Consider how provoking this must needs be to God of what dangerous consequence this hath been to the foregoing Powers and how dangerous it may prove to you 4. Consider whether it be in your hearts to bring us back to Egypt and whether ye be able indeed so to do It was an heavy yoak which we lay under by the government of Episcopacy and our spirits cryed and groaned to the Lord and he did deliver us and hath brought us from under it Now a power is risen up which hath not felt nor known the burthen of our spirits nor been acquainted with our secret breathings mournings to the Lord nor seen his mighty hand in what he hath done for us and so ye may easily be tempted to attempt either to bring us back into our old bondage or to fall upon us and crush us But if this be your aim and intent it will soon prove your ruin for the Lord God who hath given you a day and in whose hand your breath is and before whom all your power is nothing if he see you thus make use of it can soon put an end to it What is all your visible strength before the invisible arm and power Therefore be not high minded because ye are outwardly so strong and invincible but fear before him who is stronger whose eyes run to and fro through the earth to behold the carriage of things that he may be ready to stretch forth his arm for the saving of his people when there is none left to help them 5. Consider seriously and pray earnestly that ye may know what God hath put this opportunity into your hands for and do not seek the regaining of the earthly glory and greatness which we know to be falling that the Lord alone may be exalted as the Scripture also hath testified Isa 2.17 but be sober and moderate as to that and seek the glory of the immortal God who is to rise in the Kingdomes of the earth over all Rev. 11.15 and seek righteousness meekness the peace good and welfare of all neither doing nor suffering to be done to any sort of persons what ye would not be willing to have done to you by them if ye were in their case state and condition and in any thing wherein ye have been injured in the time of your sufferings and sore visitation by Gods hand though ye may now blame and seek to right your selves on the instruments which God pleased to make use of to afflict you yet it will be safer and better for you if ye can forgive These things belong to your peace and by this means the Lord's favour may turn towards you who cannot but dislike your beginnings but if in a fleshly confidence because of your outward strength ye shall set your selves against the work of the Lord his cause and people we can say to you in the dread of our God Who art thou O great Mountain We do not doubt but before the Fanner of Babel to see thee made a plain and are prepared in our Spirits to stand still to see the Salvation of our God whose arm is not shortned that it cannot save even when the enemies strength resolution and advantage is greatest This is from one who hath mourned for the oppressed and because of the oppressions which have long abounded praying to and waiting on the Lord for the good and prosperity of the Nation in general and for the bringing forth of that righteousness fear of the Lord and true peace which alone can make it happy Isaac Penington the Younger