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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54035	The flesh & blood of Christ, both in the mystery and in the outward briefly, plainly, and uprightly acknowledged and testified to, for the satisfaction and benefit of the tender-hearted, who desire to experience the quickning, healing, and cleansing vertue of it : with A brief account concerning the people called Quakers in reference both to principle and doctrine : whereunto are added some few other things which by the blessing of God may be experimentally found useful to the true pilgrim and faithful travellers out of the nature & spirit of this world / written in true love and tenderness of spirit by Isaac Penington.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.; Hicks, Thomas, 17th cent. Continuation of the dialogue between a Christian and a Quaker.	1675 (1675)	Wing P1168; ESTC R7890	24,794	63

justified of the Lord in so doing Indeed there is a great and weighty charge from Gods spirit upon the Professors of this age for departing from the inward I mean that sweet sense which in some measure God gave them in former times of the inward and magnifying and striving to establish that which they apprehend concerning the outward without it and against it O that it were otherwise with them that God may not have this charge to manage against them when at the great day they are to appear before him and be judged by him When all that have slighted or spoken contemptuously of his Sons appearance in Flesh and have not come to a sense thereof and Repentance for it shall be condemned and they that have slighted or spoken contemptuously of his appearance in spirit shall not be justified which appearance is now made manifest in the hearts of many blessed be the Lord for it O what cryes have been in my heart many years concerning you O ye Professors of all sorts who have had any tenderness towards the Lord that ye might see and know the Lords Christ and confess him in spirit in the Mystery even in his inward appearance in the heart and might feel his redeeming power and vertue there and so be brought into Union and Fellowship with him The Conclusion of this Part. THere is a pretious promise of Gods making a Feast of fat things on his holy Mountain and of destroying there the face of the covering cast over all people and the vail that is spread over all Nations Esa 25.6 7. Now what is this Mountain was there not a Mount-Sion under the Law which was figurative And is there not a Mount Sion under the Gospel which is the substance of that figure And did not the Christians in the Apostles dayes who were called of God and sanctified come to this Mount-Sion and to the City of the living God the Heavenly Jerusalem where they had fellowship with God the judge of all and with Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant c. Heb. 12.22 24. And was not the vail here done away in him who was their Lord their light their life their strength their Son of Righteousness their bright and morning Star so that with open face they could behold the glory of the Lord and were changed thereby into his Heavenly Image from glory to glory 2 Cor. 3.18 But alas how hath that life spirit and power been lost since the dayes of the Apostles Men have still owned the Apostles words and formed many notions and apprehensions out of the Letter but lost the Apostles spirit lost the knowledge of the holy Mountain where the vail is taken away and where the Feast of fat things is made and so are only dreaming about eating and drinking spiritually but know not what it is to feed on the living substance And so being ignorant of that the vail is over their hearts while they read the Prophets words and Christs and his Apostles words and the mystery of life and of the redeeming power is hid from their eyes and that which God intended to them for a Table is become their snare as it was with the Jews and their back is so bowed down under the loads and burthens of the Enemy that they cannot so much as hope or believe in the power of life for Redemption there-from but conclude it must necessarily be so with them all their dayes O where 's the faith that gives victory over the Enemys Where 's the ability in the faith so to resist him as to make him fly Where 's Satans falling like lightning oh his strength before the power of the Lord is but a flash and the God of peace his treading him under the feet of his Saints O where 's that truth or that knowledge of the Son which makes free from him Joh. 8.32 36. Where 's that spirit wherein liberty from his power and snares is felt 2 Cor. 3.17 Where 's living in the spirit and walking in the spirit and in the pure light of the Lord when he cannot come Where 's reading of the Scriptures in that which gives to witness them and which fulfils them in the heart O the mystery of godliness the power of godliness where the life is revealed and the vail taken away and an understanding given opened and kept open to read and understand the Scriptures aright yea and the hidden glory also Where it cannot be said in truth to those that are there ye know not the Scriptures nor the power of God but ye have received power to become Sons of God and ye are in him that is true who truly opens the Scriptures in your hearts and gives you the enjoyment inheritance and possession of the pretious promises whereby ye are made partakers of the Divine nature and live in him who is the head and spring of that nature O that people that profess Christ were here O that they did know him who begets and then they would not be so ignorant of those that are begotten by him but would come into the true faith into the true love into the true knowledge and obedience of him whom God hath appointed to guide and govern and build up the whole living body The Lord guide men inwardly thither where the mystery is revealed and the fellowship with God and his Son and Saints held in the Mystery for our fellowship is not in a notional knowledge concerning Christ but in the life it self which the Lord God gather his people more and more into and build them more and more up in Amen A brief ACCOUNT Concerning the People called QUAKERS in reference both to Principle and Doctrine We are a People of God's gathering who many of us had long waited for his appearance and had undergone great Distress for want thereof Q. BVt some may say what appearance of the Great God and Saviour did ye want Answ We wanted the presence and power of his spirit to be inwardly manifested in our spirits We had as I may say what we could gather from the Letter and indeavoured to practise what we could read in the Letter but we wanted the power from on high we wanted life we wanted the presence and fellowship of our beloved we wanted the knowledge of the Heavenly Seed and Kingdom and an entrance into it and the holy Dominion and Reign of the Lord of life over the Flesh over sin and death in us Quest How did God appear to you Answ The Son of Righteousness did arise in us the day-spring from on high the Morning Star did visit us insomuch that we did as really see and feel the light and brightness of the inward day in our spirits as ever we felt the darkness of the inward night Quest How did God gather you Answ By the voice of his Son by the Arm of his Son by the vertue of his Sons light and life inwardly revealed and working in our hearts This loosed us inwardly from

are builders and many are built up very high in Religion in a way of notion and practise without acquaintance with the Rock of Ages without the true knowledge and understanding of the foundation and corner-Stone My meaning is they have a notion of Christ to be the Rock a notion of him to be the foundation-stone but never come livingly to feel him the Rock to feel him the foundation-stone inwardly laid in their hearts and themselves made living stones in him and built upon him the main and fundamental stone Where is this to be felt but within And they that feel this within do they not feel Christ within And can any that feel him within deny him to be within the strength of life the hope of glory Well it is true once again spiritually now as well as formerly literally The stone which the builders refused Christ within the builders of this age refuse is become the head of the Corner who knits together his sanctified body his living body the Church in this our day more gloriously than in former Ages and Generations blessed be the name of our God Fourthly The mystery the hidden life the appearance of Christ in spirit comprehends the other and the other is not lost or denyed but found in it and there discerned and acknowledged more clearly and abundantly It was to be after it and comprehends that which went before it Paul did not lose any thing of the excellent knowledge of Christ when he said Hence forth know we no more after the flesh yea though we have known Christ after the flesh yet henceforth know we him no more If he did not know Christ after the flesh how did he know him Why as the Father inwardly revealed him He knew him in his spirit and power He knew his death inwardly he knew his Resurrection inwardly he knew the spirit the vertue the life the power of it inwardly He knew the thing in the mystery in his own heart O pretious knowledge O the excellency of this knowledge of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ what is the outwardly most exact litteral knowledge without this But what then do I now deny or slight the outward No I have it here and I have the inward feeling of the spirit of life how it dwelt in him how it wrought in him and of what wonderful value all his actions and obedience were in and through the vertue of this spirit Was Abrahams offering his Son so pretious in Gods eye O then what is this Never was such a body so sanctified so prepared never such a Sacrifice offered O the infinite worth and value of it For by the inward life and teachings of Gods spirit am I taught and made able to value that glorious outward appearance and manifestation of the life and power of God in that Heavenly flesh as in my heart I have often called it for the life so dwelt in it that it was even one with it Yet still it was a vail and the mystery was the thing and the eye of life looks through the vail into the mystery and passes through it as I may say as to the outward that it may behold its glory in the inward And here the flesh of Christ the vail is not lost but is found and known in its glory in the inward Be not offended at me O tender hearted Reader for I write in love things true according to the inward feeling and demonstration of Gods spirit though not easie perhaps to be understood at present by thee but in due time the Lord can make them manifest to thee if thou in uprightness and tenderness of heart and in the silence of the fleshly part wait upon him A few WORDS Concerning the way of PEACE The way of Peace they have not known Rom. 3.17 THere is a way of Peace of true Peace with God who is an Adversary to all that is unholy and unrighteous Those who have been unholy and unrighteous who have been awakened troubled and could find no rest but the severe and righteous judgments and wrath of the Lord lying upon their Spirits night and day having at length had their ears opened by him and being led by him out of the unholy and unrighteous way into the holy and righteous way have felt both Life and Peace therein Now there are two sorts which the Apostle here mentions or two states which the Apostle here speaks of which have not known nor can know the way of Peace with God who is an Adversary to them both and will one day speak trouble to them both when their Souls and Consciences come to be searched and judged by him The one is the Prophane or Gentile-state which is without the sense of God not heeding any appearance of his or any inward voice of his Spirit or the writing of his Law upon their heart These never knew the way wherein the heart is inwardly and spiritually circumcised and renewed sin forgiven and Peace obtained The other is the professing or outward Jewes-state who may study the Letter and apply themselves to conform outwardly to the Letter but never were acquainted with the inward spirit and power These greatly differ from the Gentile or Prophane-state both in outward appearance and in their own eye but are the same in the ground with the Gentiles and know no more of the way of Peace than the other do Quest But what is the way of Peace which neither the Prophane nor any sort of Professors out of the life and power ever knew or can know Answ It is an inward way away for the inward Jews for the inwardly renewed and circumcised to walk in It is an holy or sanctified way for the sanctified ones to walk in It is a living way which none but the living can find It is a new way which none but those to whom God hath given the new eye can see It is a way that God prepares and casts up and leads mens spirits into who hearken unto him and guides the feet of his Saints in It is a strait and narrow way which no lust of the flesh nor wisdom of the flesh can find out or enter into O how little how low how poor how empty how naked must he be that enters into this way and walks therein Many may seek after it and may think to find it and walk in it but few shall be able as our Lord Christ said Here circumcision outward avails not here want of that circumcision hinders not here bodily exercise profits little The new Creature is all here the cross of Christ is all here the power of God is all here and he that walks according to this rule Peace is upon him and the whole Israel of God But he that knows not this rule nor walks according to this rule Peace is not upon him nor is he one of the inward Israel of God who receive power to become Sons who receive the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus