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A54031	The consideration of a position concerning the Book of common-prayer as also of some particulars held forth for truths by one Edmund Elis, stiled a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ : with a warning of tender bowels to the rulers, teachers and people of this nation concerning their church and ministry : likewise a few words concerning the kingdom, laws and government of Christ in the heart and conscience, its inoffensiveness to all just laws and governments of the kingdoms of men / by Isaac Penington the younger.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.; Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1161; ESTC R28789	24,645	40

filthiness of the flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of God 2 Cor. 7.1 Now that the corrupt Tree shall never be cut down whilst man is in the body that the heart shall never be throughly circumcised to love the Lord but be in danger of offending God through the love of the Creature this doctrine and belief springeth not from the pure Fountain of Life and Power but the reasoning part hath gathered it from it's conceivings beneath the Power The Seed of God cannot sin for as he is pure which begetteth so is that pure which is begotten of him nor can man sin who is born of it and abides in it and if God please to perfect the Birth and the work of Circumcision What can hinder a man from being wholly born of it from abiding in it Indeed a man that strives in his own strength either against sin or towards holiness may well doubt of ever having it accomplished but he that feels the Eternal Power beginning the work and carrying it on daily cannot doubt but he can perfect it yea and is encouraged by the feeling thereof to hope and wait on him for the perfecting of it As for his instances of David and Peter they reach not the thing For though David and Peter did fall yet both David and Peter might attain an higher state before they went out of the body then they were in before they fell David was a great Prophet and Peter a pretious Disciple but yet there was an higher Estate to be administred even the receiving that which the Prophets prophesied of and which the Disciple was to wait for The Disciples who had known Christ and had been taught by him and had received a Commission from him to whom all Power in Heaven and Earth was given yet were to wait for a Further and Higher State even for receiving the Promise of the Father the Power from on High that he that was with them might be in them John 14.17 John was as great as any Prophet and yet he that was least in the Kingdom was greater then he Read the Acts of the Apostles behold what a pretious people was brought forth even in the beginning of the Apostles Ministry how full of Faith how stripped of the world how single-hearted to God and one towards another Acts 2.42 c. and Acts 4.32 c. What would these be abiding and growing up in the Vine The cutting off of sin is necessary while in the Body but to make the committing of sin necessary while in the Body is a great Derogation to the Power of Gods Grace and to the Mystery of Faith which overcometh the evils of the Heart and the Worldly Nature within purifieth the Conscience from dead works and is held in the Pure Conscience O that men knew the Power and the Faith which stands in the Power For then would not they judge it so impossible to be cleansed by the Faith through the Power O that Light that Light that Pure Light of the Spirit wherein the Living Blood runs which cleanseth from all sin and keepeth clean them that abide and walk in it If this were but a little felt such Doctrine as these which are gathered in the comprehension from words read without being let into the thing it self would soon vanish and find no place in the Heart where the Power dwells nor in the understanding which is renewed preserved and fed by the Power For the things of God are to be known and held in the understanding which is given of God which understanding is of the Spirit and is Spiritual and not wirh the natural understanding which cannot receive the things of the Spirit but onely a carnal apprehension and sence of the words of the Spirit according as a man can beat them out with and comprehend them in his reasoning part To the fifth That the Souls of the faithful are alwayes growing in grace whilst they are in the body and at the instant of death or separation from the body our Lord Jesus shall present them to the Father without spot or blemish Answ Christ presenteth to the Father when he hath purified the heart and mind and made it fit for Gods pure life and presence He hath received the fulness from the Father and hath freely given of his grace and of his truth to the sons of men to regenerate them to cleanse and sanctifie their hearts and make them fit for God to dwell in He sitteth in his Temple as a Refiner and Purifier of Silver who is like a Refiner's Fire and like Fuller's Soap and when he hath purified his Disciples his Children his Levites he presenteth them to the Lord for the Lord to Tabernacle and dwell in when he hath throughly consecrated them he presenteth them as Kings and Priests to his Father to offer up an Offering for Righteousness and to reign with him in his Kingdom Mal. 3.3 Rev. 1.5 And there were some so purified by the leaven of the Kingdom which purgeth out the old leaven by degrees even till at length it hath made the lump wholly new that to them all things were pure Titus 1.5 There were some come unto Mount Sion and unto the City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels to the general Assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus the Moderator of the New Covenant and to the Blood of Sprinkling Heb. 12.22 23 24. Thus it was before the Apostacy yea and after the Apostacy there were some found standing on Mount Sion again such as had learned the New Song such as were redeemed from the Earth such as were not defiled with Women with any of the false Churches or their false wayes of worship but had kept their Virginity in the Wilderness If ye would know who these were they were the first-fruits unto God and the Lamb after the Apostacy who were throughly cleansed by the Spirit of burning insomuch as in their mouth was found no guile but they were without fault before the Throne of God Revel 14. v. 1. to 6. The Work of the Spirit of Christ in the heart is an inward work and doth not consist in outward time or seasons but in spiritual degrees and seasons which when they are finished the heart renewed the spirit changed the work wrought out then the glory of the Father is revealed the entrance into the everlasting Kingdom Ministred and then there is a sitting down in the everlasting Mansion even with Christ in the Heavenly places which he hath prepared where they that are redeemed and purged and sanctified sit together with him and as the body cannot hinder his entring into the spirits of his Saints and his dwelling in them no more can it hinder their entring into him and dwelling in him Now there are several exercises of Spirit several measures

shall be the Church and Ministry or whether Gods holy Nation which he calleth and sanctifieth by his Spirit and the Ministers which he chuseth and sendeth to gather and build up his in the holy Faith and pure power of Life shall be the Church and Ministry Our eyes wait on the Lord to see this Controversie determined and our hope of help is in his Arm nor are we at all affrighted at the rising of any strength against us our hearts being given up to Gods Truth and to suffer for its Testimony according to Gods will meekly and patiently in his strength but we pitty this poor land yea in the depth of bowels we pitty the Rulers the Teachers and People therein O that they might be humbled and in fear of the great God surrender to him his due before he appear in his strength to force it from them Of the Kingdom Laws and Government of Christ in the Heart and Conscience its Inoffensiveness to all just Laws and Governments of the Kingdoms of men CHrists Kingdom Gods Kingdom the Kingdom of Heaven for they are all one and the same is that seed of Eternal Life which God hath hid in the hearts of the sons of men whereby he gathereth them back unto himself bringeth them under the Yoak of his Government ruleth over them and reigneth in them This Kingdom is likened to a grain of mustard seed for its smalness to a Pearl for its Riches Value and Worth to Leaven for its spreading nature and many other Parables did Christ make use of to discover it by as to a piece of Silver which the woman that lost it lighting the candle sweeping the house and searching it diligently at length found it even there where she had lost it Man fallen from God is become lost as to the Lord and as to his own happiness in the Lord being driven from his blessed presence and divine Image Life and Spirit into the earthly Spirit Image and Life which he chose Yet in this Earth in this Field of the World God hath hid somewhat even the everlasting Pearl which when man is awakened to seek and findeth in the living Breath in the Eternal Light of Life it is able to redeem him it is able to overspread he becoming subject to the Laws Leadings Teachings and Power of it and leaven him into the Likeness and Image of the pure Life and Spirit Or not men knew the Gift of God O that men knew the purchase of the blood of Christ O that men knew that Spiritual good thing which Christ who died for them hath given to Redeem them by that in that they might be united to Christ and so by him be Renewed and Restored to God For as the Father receiveth none but through the Son so the Son receiveth none but in that Gift which he bestoweth from the Father He owneth no Faith no Love no Hope no Repentance no Obedience but what springeth from that and standeth in that Now as man is Born of this is Leavened by this as he becomes a fool in his own earthly wisdom and excellency of the fallen Spirit and becomes a Babe a Child Simple Innocent c. so he enters into the Kingdome being ingrafted into the Root through the virtue of this which is given him from the Root and so grows up in this and this in him And here 's the new Nature the new Life the new Heart the new Spirit in which the Unity and Fellowship with God is again known and the Disunion with the World the Wisdom the Interests the Fashions the Customs the Fears the Hopes the Delights the Joys of this World and whatever else is of it For Christ as he is not of the World so he calleth men out of the World and they which follow him and become his Disciples go out of the World after him that is travel in Spirit and Conversation from what is of the Earth from what ever is not of the Father but of the World They are not of the World even as I am not of the World saith Christ concerning his Disciples John 17. therefore the world hateth them The Laws of this Kingdom are given forth in the Kingdom from the Covenant of life which is made there in Christ They are written in the heart in the mind as far as it is renewed There the fear is put there the eternal Wisdom is opened there is Sion known and the Jerusalem which is from above and the Laws of eternal life issue fresh from it and are revealed by the life in the heart which is turned towards the life There sin is reproved and everlasting Righteousness manifested in the Light which cannot deceive and as the heart is made subject under the yoke so sin is wrought out and Righteousness brought in and under the Cross or yoke of life the blood of the everlasting Covenant runs through the vessel to keep it pure sweet clean and fresh in the life This then is the Government of Christ to be subject to his Spirit which appears and opens his will in the gift of grace which comes from him to feel his living breath by which the heart is begotten to God out of the Region of darkness to know the movings the stirrings the leadings the steps of the Lamb who is the Captain of our Salvation and to follow him where ever he goes doing all things that he commands forbearing all things that he forbids without murmuring without disputing Who ever will be of the inward Israel the spiritual Israel which Christ redeems out of the spiritual Egypt and leads through the spiritual Wilderness into the Land of Rest must know his Leader must receive his Spirit and follow it faithfully If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his he is none of the spiritual Israel and if any man follow not the Spirit of Christ through all the travels in the Wilderness but either sits down by the way or lyes overcome by any kind of enemies and comes not to the end of his journey finishing the warfar and fight of Faith he falls short of the rest O that men were awakened to consider of things as indeed they are for Religion is not such an outward Form of Doctrine or Worship of any sort as men generally whose poor Souls are deceived through the subtilty of the powers of darkness are too apt and willing to apprehend but it consists in Spirit in Power in Vertue in Life not in the oldness of any Form which passeth away but in the newness of the Spirit which abideth for ever in being born of the Spirit in abiding in the Spirit in living walking and worshipping in the Spirit yea in becoming and growing into Spirit and into eternal Life for that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit O that the sons of men would hearken that they might tast of the sweetness and riches of the goodness which the Father in his free love hath opened in the

and in this is the Discovery of him and the Redemption from him And happy is he vvho is not defiled with Women but abideth in the true Virginity expecting and preparing for the appearance of the Bridegroom The CONSIDERATION of a POSITION concerning the Book of COMMON-PRAYER As also of some Particulars held forth for Truths c. THere is a Position laid down in some Printed Letters concerning the use of the Common-Prayer-Book tendred by one Edm. Elis who professeth himself to be a Minister of Jesus Christ to Mr. Hughes and Mr. Ford as he stileth them against which Position he entreateth me if I find upon my Spirit any thing to be objected against it to discover it in exact and punctual expressions This desire of his is set down in Print after the Letters His Position or Assertion is this That a man may Worship God in Spirit and in Truth in the use of that form of Prayer for Morning and Evening which we call the Common-Prayer Now whoever would weigh this Assertion aright must have the Ballance of the Sanctuary and must put it into the Scale with an equal hand and then looking with that eye which is given to see the Misteries of the Kingdom of God to him who is born of God the Truth or Error of it is easily discerned True Prayer is the breathing of the Child to the Father which begat it from the sence of its wants for the supply of those wants The Winde bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth So is every one that is born of the Spirit John 3.8 God by the Breath of his Spirit begets a man out of the Spirit and likeness of this World into his own image and likenesse He that is thus begotten wants Nourishment wants the Divine Warmth the Breasts of Consolation the Cloathing of the Spirit the Garment of Salvation wants the Bread of Life to feed on wants the Water of Life to drink wants strength against the enemies Assaults wisdom against his Snares and Temptations wants the arm of the Deliverer to preserve and carry on the work of Redemption daily wants Faith to deny the fleshly Wisdom that so he may Trust and Feel the Vertue of the Arm of the Deliverer wants Hope Patience Meeknesse a clear Guidance an upright Heart to follow after the Lord yea very many are the daily wants of that which is begotten by the Breath of God in its state of weaknesse until it be drawn up into the Unity of the Body where the full Communion with the Life is felt the Heart satisfied and the wants drowned Now the breathing of this Child to the Father from the sence of these wants for his Supply that 's Prayer nay though it be but a Groan or Sigh which cannot be uttered or expressed yet that 's Prayer true Prayer which hath an acceptance with the Lord and receiveth a Gracious Answer from him And he that begetteth the Child teacheth him to Pray even by the same Spirit which begat him In watching daily to the Spirit the Child is kept sensible of the Will of the Father and in his Light he sees the Way wherein he is to walk he sees also the Enemie when he is coming yea and the Snares he is privily laying and he feels his own weaknesse to withstand or escape And in this sence his Heart cries to the Father of Spirits for Preservation for him to stand by him for him to step in in the needful time even in the Season of Distress And thus watching to the Spirit the Life of a Christian is a continual course of Prayer He prayes continually This is the Living Prayer of the Living Child which consists not in a Form of Words either read out of a Book or conceived in the Mind but in feeling the Breath of its Nature issuing out from the Principle of Life in it to the Living Spring which is the Father of it who by causing his vertues to spring up in it nourisheth it to Everlasting Life But now man who is not born of the Spirit but by conceiving some of the Truths of God in the Wisdom from below hath attained to some change of Opinion and Conversation he pretends to be this Birth from above though indeed he is born but of Bloods or of the Will of the flesh or of the Will of Man John 1.13 and what God begets in and gives to his True Child he will be imitating though he be out of the Nature and Spirit where the True Child is begotten and where the True gift of the Father is received by him He will be believing though he hath not received any Proportion of the Living Faith from the Hand of the Father he will be forming Repentance and Sorrow for sin though his Heart be not turned from it he will be hoping in Gods Mercy although he be both from off the Foundation and from under the shadow of the Mercy-seat and he will be praying though he hath neither received the Spirit nor be taught by the Spirit to pray And so being from that which should guide him and teach him the truth and way of Worship as it is in Jesus he runs out into the inventions and imaginations and sets up a way of his own chusing which he having much considered of and beat out by reasonings and fenced about with Arguments he grows wise in his own eyes and now verily believes it to be the way of God and that he is able to maintain it against all opposers Thus one man he is for a Form another man he is against a Form and for conceived prayers and each think themselves able to maintain their own and to overthrow each other But Oh that that ear were open which can hear the truth that where there is any true honest upright desire after God from the simplicity of the heart it might not be thus betrayed through the subtilty of the fleshly wisdom which lies lurking in the wise reasoning knowing part to betray the poor weak Babe The natural man the reasoning man the understanding man the wise man according to the natural wisdom cannot understand the things of God Here 's no learning to pray aright to believe aright to hope aright to mourn aright to rejoyce aright c. But this wisdom must be brought to nothing 1 Cor. 1.19 and a man must become as a child to all knowledge as let in this way And he that so becomes a child is taught to pray to believe to wait to hope and all that is necessary to eternal life Now as the Father teacheth to pray so he giveth desires or words if he please according to the present need Sometimes he gives but ability to sigh or groan if he give no more he accepts that Sometimes he gives strong breathings and plenty of words to pour out the soul in before the Lord. But if a man should catch those words and lay

Minister in the Spirit and in the Power His words must not be such as mans wisdom would teach or as mans comprehension would gather but such words as Gods Wisdom prepares for him and puts into his mouth He that will be a true Minister must receive both his gift his Ministry and the exercise of both from the Lord and must be sure in his ministring to keep in the Power or he will never win others to the Power but in keeping in the Power while he is ministring and standing in the cross to his own understanding and wisdom giving forth the truths which the Lord chuseth to have him speak in the words which God chuseth even in the words which are ministred to him by the Power in thus ministring he shall save both his own Soul and those that hear him even all who in fear and meekness receive the ingrafted Word which is able to save the Soul For alas alas many have received words of Truth and apprehensions of Knowledge whereby they hope to be saved but how few are acquainted with that Knowledge which stands in the Power which alone converts and keeps alive unto God! O how many Souls are to be answered for by them who take upon them to be Pastors from God who have fed the Flock with words with Discourses which they have made and have ruled over them with force and cruelty but have wanted the love the tenderness the Light and Power of the true Shepherd O what will these do when God requires his sheep at their hands O that there were an heart to consider Ye Shepherds of England little do ye know what is towards you Now for those things themselves which he saith he principally endeavours to make known to the sons of men there is a mixture in them which if he could singly apply himself to wait of the Lord in the meek sober Spirit out of the consultations wisdom and confidence of the flesh it might please the Lord to make manifest to him The first particular of those which he layes down for Truths is That the good things of this life honours riches c. unless we make use of them in the service of God are but vanity and vexation of spirit And in no wise any more capable to satisfie or content an immortal Soul than Lime and Ashes and Cobwebs and such like trash are to satisfie and keep in health the bodies of those persons who through the depravedness of their appetite desire to feed on them Answ Christ by his Ministry calleth his Disciples out of the world up to the Father out of the honours riches and what ever else is of the world How can ye believe which receive honour one of another and seek not the honour that cometh from God onely John 5.44 And the rich man he bids him sell all and follow him And the Apostle John saith Love not the world neither the things that are in the world If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him For all that is in the world the just of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world 1 John 2.15 16. He that will be a Disciple of Christ must travel out of the earthly into the heavenly leaving all that is of this world behind him possessing nothing as his portion but him who hath call'd him out of his Countrey from among his kindred and from his Father's house to another Land kindred and habitation So that here they are Pilgrims and Strangers Sojourners and Passengers unknown to the world and of a strange garb behaviour and appearance in it not enjoying any thing as the world enjoyes not using any thing as the world useth not honouring men or receiving honour from men as the world gives or receives honour but honouring men in the Lord and receiving honour from the Lord and what ever they seem to retain of the earthly things they hold as Stewards under the Lord not using or disposing of them as they think good but waiting for the discovery of the Masters pleasure who is to order in his Counsel and Wisdom all that is his own to his own glory The Law required a tenth part to be given up to the Lord the Gospel requires all Soul Body Spirit Goods good Name c. even that the whole possession be sold and laid at the Masters feet and he that keepeth any thing back cannot be a Disciple cannot be a Souldier of Christ but must needs entangle himself with the affairs of this life This is sound and savoury even the Truth of Jesus as it is known and felt in the renewed Spirit but his Words if he measure them in the pure Light of God he will perceive not to have sprung thence but to have been formed in the earthly wise part even in that wisdom understanding and comprehension which is shut out of the Mysteries of Gods Kingdom For his second That nothing but the enjoyment of God the Fountain of all Goodness can truly and really content an immortal Soul And for his third That no man can enjoy God but he that loves him with all his heart and with all his Soul and for his sake his Neighbour as himself I own both the things themselves and these words and I felt a good savour in them at the reading of them onely let me say this if he put men upon striving after these things without pointing them to the gift where the strength is received to perform and where the waiting is to be for the strength he cannot preach them profitably to his hearers To his fourth That though every sincere Convert or regenerate person loves God continually with his whole heart as to the habit or root of holy love yet whilst he is in the body he may sometimes fail of the Act or fruit of it and may offend God through the love of the creature Which Truth so much opposed in these dayes is clear and manifest in the holy Scriptures particularly in the Records of the hainous sins of the Prophet David and Peter the Apostle Answ The Lord Circumciseth the heart of Believers under the New Covenant to love the Lord their God with all their heart that they may live he causeth the Plant to spring up out of the dry and barren ground which he watereth with his Blessing and he layeth his Axe to the Root of the old Tree hewing at it even till he hath cut it up he engrafteth the Eternal Word into the heart and by it is daily purifying thereof fulfilling the good pleasure of his goodness therein and carrying on the Work of Faith with power and the Ministry which he gave was for the perfecting of the Saints Ephes 4.12 13. which Ministry exhorted and encouraged Believers from God's Promises of his presence and powerful operation of his Spirit in the hearts of his Sons and Daughters to cleanse themselves from all