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A54111 A brief examination and state of liberty spiritual both with respect to persons in their private capacity and in their church society and communion / written ... by a lover of true liberty, as it is in Jesus, William Penn. Penn, William, 1644-1718. 1681 (1681) Wing P1260; ESTC R32173 13,519 20

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be left to act according as I am free and perswaded in my own Mind in the things that relate to God lest looking upon my self as obliged by what is revealed unto another though it be not revealed unto me I should be led out of my own Measure and act upon anothers Motion and so offer a blind Sacrifice to God Answ This is true in a sence that is if thou art such an one that canst do nothing against the Truth but for the Truth then mayst thou safely be left to thy freedom in the things of God and the Reason is plain Because thy Freedom stands in the Perfect Law of Liberty in the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus and in the Truth which is Christ Jesus which makes thee Free indeed that is Perfectly Free from all that is Bad and perfectly Free to all that is Holy Just Lovely Honest Comely and of good Report but if thou pleadest thy Freedom against such things yea obstructest and slightest such Good Wholesome and Requisit Things thy Freedom is Naught Dark Perverse out of the Truth and against the perfect Law of Love and Liberty Qu. But must I conform to things whether I can receive them or no Ought I not to be left to the Grace and Spirit of God in my own Heart Answ To the first part of the Question Nay to the last Yea. But now let us consider what is the Reason thou canst not receive them Is the fault in the things themselves Are they inconsistent with Truth or will not the Truth own or assent unto them or is the fault in thee that is to say Is it thy Weakness or thy Carelesness If thy Weakness it is to be born with and to be informed if thy Carelesness thou oughtst to be admonished for it is a dangerous Principle and pernicious to true Religion and which is worse it is the Root of Ranterism to assert That nothing is a Duty incumbent upon thee but what thou art perswaded is thy Duty for the Seared Conscience pleads his Liberty against all Duty the Dark Conscience is here unconcerned the Dead Conscience is here uncondemned unless this Distinction be allowed of that there may be an Ignorance or an Insensibility from Inability or Incapacity or a Dark Education and an Ignorance and Insensibility from Carelesness Disobedience Prejudice c. So that though thou art not to conform to a thing ignorantly yet thou art seriously to consider why thou art ignorant and what the cause of such Ignorance may be certainly it can't be in God nor in his Gift to thee it must then needs be in thy self who hast not yet received a Sense for or against the Matter about which thou art in doubt To the second part of the Question Ought I not to be left to the Grace of God in my own Heart Ans That is of all things most desirable since they are well left that are there left for there is no fear of want of Unity where all are left with the one Spirit of Truth they must be of one Mind they can't be otherwise So that to plead this against Unity is to abuse the very Plea and to commit the greatest Contradiction to that very Doctrine of Scripture viz. That all should be guided by the Grace and Spirit of God in themselves for the end of that Doctrine is certainty They shall all know me saith the Lord from the least to the greatest And I will give them one Heart and one Way that they may fear me forever for the good of them and of their Children after them Jer. 32. 39. And I will give them one Heart and I will put a new Spirit within you and I will take the Stony Heart out of their Flesh and will give them an Heart of Flesh Ezekiel 11. 19. And the multitude of them that believed were of one Heart and of one Soul Acts 4. 32. Is not this Unity too I will restore unto you a pure Language they shall be of one Heart and of one Mind and great shall be their Peace Therefore I must say to thee Friend What if thou wilt not be left with the Grace and Spirit of God in thy self nor wait for its Mind nor be watchful to its Revelations nor humble and quiet till thou hast received such necessary Manifestations but pleadest against the Counsel of the Spirit of the Lord in other faithful Persons under the pretence of being left to his Spirit in thy self by which means thou opposest the Spirit to the Spirit and pleadest for Dis-unity under the Name of Liberty I ask thee May not I exhort thee to the Practice of that I am moved to press thee to the Practice of If not thou art the Imposer by restraining me from my Christian Liberty and not only so but away goeth Preaching and with it the Scriptures that are both appointed of God for Exhortation Reproof and Instruction Qu. But are there not various Measures diversities of Gifts and several Offices in the Body Answ True but therefore are not the Members of one Mind one Will and one Judgment in common and universal Matters especially relating to the Family and Church of God And indeed there can't be a falser Reasoning than to conclude Discord from Diversity Contrariety from Variety Is there Contrariety of Bloods Lifes Feelings Seeings Hearings Tastings Smellings in one and the same Body at one and the same time No such matter Experience is a Demonstration against all such Insinuations So that though it be granted that there is Diversity of Gifts yet there is no Disagreement in Sense and though Variety of Offices yet no Contrariety in Judgment concerning those Offices Well saith the holy Scriptures of Truth there is but One God the Lord our God is but One Lord there is but One God and Father of all things that are good and there is but One Lord One Faith and One Baptism and his Light Life and Spirit is at Unity with it self in all what comes from the Light Life or Spirit in one it is the same in Truth and Unity to the rest as if it rise in themselves This is seen in our Assemblies every day and will be throughout all Generations in the Church of God among those that live in the lowly Truth in which the pure Sense and sound Judgment stands God is not the God of Confusion but Order Every one in his Order is satisfied hath Unity and true Fellowship with whatever comes from the Life of God in another for this precious Life reacheth throughout the Heritage of God and is the common Life that giveth the common Feeling and Sense to the Heritage of God Degree or Measure in the same Life can never contradict or obstruct that which is from the same Life for the common Benefit of the Family of God The Lord is the Vnmeasurable and Incomprehensible Glorious being of Life yet have we Unity with him in all his Works who are come to his