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A54072	To the Jews natural, and to the Jews spiritual with a few words ro [sic] England my native country, &c. : some sensible, weighty queries, concerning some things very sweet and necessary to be experienced in the truly-Christian state : whereunto is added a postscript, containing some queries on Isa. 50, 10, 11 ... / by Isaac Penington.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1677 (1677)	Wing P1214; ESTC R36966	28,679	73

TO THE JEWS NATVRAL AND TO THE JEWS SPIRITVAL With a few Words to England my Native Country c. Some Sensible Weighty QUERIES Concerning some things very sweet and necessary to be experienced in the Truly-Christian State whereunto is added A Postscript Containing some Queries on Isa 50·10 11. A Scripture of Deep Counsel Concern to the darkned and distressed states of some among those that fear obey the Lord. By ISAAC PENINGTON Printed in the Year 1677. TO THE JEWS NATVRAL AND TO THE JEWS SPIRITVAL With a few Words to England my Native Country Whereunto are added two or three Queries touching the River and City of God and the pure Stilness wherein God is known and exalted As also some Questions answered concerning the true Church Ministry and Maintenance under the Gospel about the Lamb's war Written in Travelling Bowels By ISAAC PENINGTON Truly God is good to Israel to such as are of a clean heart Psalm 73.11 Behold an Isralite indeed in whom is no guile Joh. 1.47 For he is not a Iew that is one outwardly neither is that Circumcision which is outward in the flesh but he is a Iew which is one inwardly and Circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit and not in the letter whose Praise is not of men but of God Rom. 2.28 29. Behold the Dayes come saith the Lord that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised Egypt and Iudah and Edom and the Children of Ammon and Moab and all that are in the utmost corners that dwell in the wilderness for all these Nations are uncircumcised and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart Ier. 9.25 26. Printed in the Year 1677. THE PREFACE WHat a day of distress and revelation of the righteous Judgment of God is to come upon the wicked and ungodly World even upon man who was created in the Image of God but is now fallen from it and found out of it and in another Image very unlike it the eye which the God of this world hath blinded and the heart which he hath hardened by sin and transgression hath no sense of What a day of distress and misery some in this nation and in other parts of the World have already met with how they have felt the Weight of Sin upon their Spirits and what a sore thing it hath been to them to feel their Souls separated from that God that made them who is the Husband and Father King and Preserver of Souls that are found in his Image and Nature how they have been inwardly captivated by a Forreign Power and oppressed and made to serve under sin and could hear no effectual Tidings of his appearance who was able to save but their Spirits were ready to sink and their Hope of Redemption from that which oppressed and captivated them almost cut off this being an inward State and Condition hath been altogether hid from the Eye which is outward How the Lord at length appeared unto these his Bowels having long rowled over them and he having long waited to be gracious to them even till the fully acceptable and set time was come how his Light hath shined in and upon them how he gathered those dry Bones together and breathed Life into them and made them live this is also altogether an hidden thing from the Eye of the World How the Lord who appeared to them hath exercised and tried them how he hath judged them and how he hath saved them what Desolations he hath made inwardly in them and what he hath built up there what an Hammer a Sword a Fire c. his pure Word of Life hath been in them How that Birth which could live without God without his inward Life or upon Words and Knowledge without Life hath been famished until by the Pain of the Famine its very Life and Breath hath been taken from it and it crucified with Christ by the Pain of the Cross of Christ and what Birth hath been raised and crowned afterwards and beautified with the Ornaments of Righteousness and Salvation yea with the endless Love and Mercy of its God and how the Lord is with his People and dwells and walks in them and how he hath humbled them to walk with him and how in Fear and Humility they do walk with him in the Light of the Day everlasting even as God is Light and walks in the Light of his own Day these are very strange and unknown things to the Wisest and most Prudent in Religion at this Day who are not gathered into the Mystery of Godliness nor into the Spirit Power and Glory of the Father where these things are revealed in and by the Son What Faith the Children of Wisdom have in the Wisdom and Power which hath appeared what Confidence they have in the Lord their God that he will stand by them in all their Exercises and Trials both inward and outward and what Experiences they have had of the Lords standing by them in both how his Faithfulness doth not fail and how their Faith in him is upheld and preserved by him that it doth not fail in the stormy time or Hour of greatest Distress and how their Eye is unto him and their Hearts with him in the Calms so that their God is all in all unto them continually And who knows this but they that have it Oh who can utter or declare the Sweetness and Certainty of this where it is enjoyed What Love also the Lord sheds abroad in their Hearts and how he teacheth and causeth them to love by often circumcising their Hearts and cutting off that which hindereth the pure Love from springing in them and how they love others in the Love wherewith God who is Love hath loved them and how natural it is to them to pray for their Enemies and to bless them that curse them and do Good for Evil but cannot requite Evil for Evil being transplanted into and growing up in the Root that is good and sends up good sap and Virtue into them which nourisheth all that is good in them but is Death and Destruction to the Remainders of evil as the Lord pursueth and findeth it out Oh how impossible is it for the Heart of man to conceive or understand Now I also having tasted of the Mercy and Goodness of the Lord and having been brought out of a State of great Misery and Sorrow of Heart into the Redemption and Joy of God's chosen and having found the Lord faithful to me and giving me Faith in the Appearance of his Spirit and Power in me and true Love tender Love not only to my Brethren in the Truth but to all Mankind springing in me and divers Fruits issuing forth from it some of them at this time I cannot but publish and the Lord open the Hearts of those whom it concerns that they may find some Help Benefit and Furtherance by it for it is the Joy of my Heart to receive Good from God

And when this Ensign is more fully lifted up shall not the Gentiles more abundantly come unto God from the Ends of the Earth and bewail their dead and estranged Estate from God saying Surely our Fathers inherited Vanity and things wherein is no Profit Jer. 16·19 And shall they not turn from all their Idols to serve the living God Thes 1.9 And concerning the Messiah it vvas promised that in his Name should the Gentiles trust and the Isles should vvait for his lavv and he should bring forth Judgment to the Gentiles Isa 42.11 vvith Mat. 12.21 But vvhat should I mention any more Scriptures unto you concerning this thing vvhenas ye have so large full certain and daily Experience of it in that vvhich is pure and living of God which never deceived nor can deceive any for ye are begotten by his Spirit into his own Image and Nature and have received the Spirit of Adoption where●n ye cry Abba Father to the Father of Spirits He found you indeed in a strange land under great Captivity and Alienation ftom him Ye have been in Egypt in Sodom in Babylon spiritually But the mercy of the Lord hath followed you thither and the Arm of the Lord hath reached to you there and hath cut Rahab and wounded the Dragon Yea he whom the Lord hath given for a Light to the Gentiles hath shined to you there in the midst of your Darkness So that God sent among you the Prophet like unto Moses though far above Moses and hearing him he led you out of Egypt and by the Rod of his Power did Signs and Wonders and valiant Acts there breaking that Power which with a strong Hand held you captive there and oppressed you And ye have known the Travel Trials and Temptations in the spiritual Wilderness and the falling of the carcases which were to fall there and the holy leading by the Pillar of Cloud and Fire through all the Entanglements and Dangers therein Yea and the faithful among you the tried and prepared among you have passed over Jordan the River of pure Judgment into the good Land and come to witness David and Solomon who are one in Spirit your King who rules in Righteousnes and ministers to you Peace everlasting And ye have an High-Priest there not after the Order of Aaron but after the Order of Melchizedeck who is made the Everlasting High-Priest of God not after the Law of a Carnal Commandment but after the Power of an Endless Life whose lips preserve the knowledge of the law for you in that endless power of Life who ministers for you to you in that endless Power and intercedes with Power and Efficacy and sprinkles the Blood of the Covenant upon you vvhich takes avvay sin from your Hearts Consciences So that ye knovv the invvard Jew's state the invvard Holy Land and Kingdom the inward Circumcision before ye enter into that Land and the inward Lamb the inward Passeover the inward Mount Zion and Jerusalem the inward Sacrifices and Incense the inward Tabernacle Temple and Ark of the Covenant the inward Table of Shew-Bread the inward Manna the inward Rod that buddeth the inward Candlestick and the Lamps which are never to go out in God's Temple And what should I say more All that that people were to be outwardly in an outvvard VVay and State hath God made you invvardly in the Substance And what God would have been to them outvvardly had they obeyed his Voice and kept his Statutes and Judgments that he is to you invvardly vvho are the called and chosen and faithful Followers of the Lamb And ye are the enjoyers of their B●essings and Promises inwardly O the glory of your State to the Eye that is opened to see it Now somewhat doth remain on my Heart unto you O be daily sensible of the tender Goodness and Mercy of the Lord which is broke forth among you What Mercy what Love hath the Father shewn unto you that ye should be thus accounted the Children of God! that they which were once nigh should be removed so far off and ye whi●h were so far off should be brought so nigh and should forever inherit the sure mercies of David For of a Truth the Lord will never forsake you but his mercy endures forever towards you and your Stakes shall never be removed but this inward Building shall stand forever This Zion is the Place of God's Rest where he will dwell forever whereof the outward Zion was but a Figure 2 dly Remember what the Lord promised himself concerning you When he vvas vveary of that people and continually complaining of them O vvhat did he promise himself concerning the People he vvould bring forth by the Spirit and Povver of the Messiah in the latter Dayes Did he not promise himself that they should be an holy People an invvardly circumcised people a People that should please him Sheep that should hear the Shepherd's Voice and be healed by him gathered home to him and so follovv and learn of him the Shepherd that they should all know him from the least to the greatest and that he would forgive their Sins and heal their Backslidings and they should not return to Folly or backslide any more as the Children after the Flesh alwayes did Is not this the People whom indeed God hath formed for himself who shall shew forth his praise 3 dly Remember what a Covenant God hath prepared to make with you as ye incline your Ears to him and are led by him into the holy agreement with him even a Cevenant which is not weak as the old Covenant vvas but is full of Virtue and Vigour to enable you to do whatever God requires of you Mark what it contains Putting God's Fear into you Not the Fear which is taught by man's precepts vvhich man may get into hi● carnal mind but vvhich God places as the Trasury of Life in the Heart as it is vvritten The Fear of the Lord is his Treasure Isa 33.6 And O vvho knovvs the preciousness of this Treasure Hovv it cleanseth the Heart and keepeth it clean and will not suffer the mind that is seasoned with it and kept to it to depart from the living God! It fenceth from Unbelief it fenceth from Disobedience it will not suffer the Soul so much as to meddle with any Appearance of Evil. O precious glorious blessed Treasure Happy is the man● that feareth alwayes with this Fear Another precious thing this Covenant contains is The Law written in the Heart that it shall be as near yea nearer then sin is in the Heart that is made tender and hath the Law of the Spirit of Life written in it Who knows what it is to have the Law of Love the Law of Life the Law of the Spirit the Law of Faith the Law of new Obedience livingly written by God in his Heart Surely none can but they in whom God writes it And such cannot but desire to have it written in their Hearts by his blessed

Finger daily more and more But this Covenant contains yet more even the putting of his own Spirit within them to be a Fountain of Life there a Fountain of Strength and Wisdom there to make them more and more willing in the day of his Power and to cause them to walk in his wayes and keep his Statutes and Judgments and do them that the Lord their God may bless them and delight in them O who would not long after and take up the Cross and Shame to enjoy the Glory of this State O what hath God done for a poor despised Remnant among the Gentiles O who would not desire to keep this blessed Covenant with the Lord that he might fully enjoy the Lord that the Marriage with the Maker might be witnessed in his Loving-kindness Everlasting Righteousness and all Unrigteousness and Uncleanness might be put away removed and separated from the Heart forever Ah the Virgin-Spirit which the Lamb loves and delights to marry with He that is joyned to the Lord is one Spirit and he must part with all that is old evil unclean and corrupt in him that would be joyned to the Lord and become one Spirit with him O who would lose the precious Fear of the Covenant which is clean and endureth forever and keepeth clean and chast to the Lord forever And who vvould miss of one Lavv which God hath to write in the Hearts of his Children when every Law is a Law of Life and changeth the Mind into the Nature of the Law-giver And who would grieve God's Spirit which is our Comforter Or quench that which kindles the pure Flame of Love and Life in our Hearts Much less can any of his dear and tender Children be willing to vex him by manifest Carelesness and Disobedience who giveth us to drink of the River of his Pleasures O my dear Friends ye do not know the great Travail of my Heart that all the Children of the Lord might walk before him in all well-pleasing that we might come all into Covenant into the full Covenant and walk fully with him in the Covenant that his Anger might be forever turned away from us all and he might never be wroth with nor rebuke any of us any more It is written on my Heart the breaking forth of this Glory would reach the Jews And though they be cast off as to their outward State and not so to be owned or come into that Glory any more yet there is a Day of mercy and Love for them as to that inward State of Life and Redemption which their outward State typified And the breaking forth of the full Glory of the Gentiles and the manifestation of God's mighty Power and Presence with them they being made by God a People to him and so walking with God as none possibly can but those who are created anew and so made by him this might provoke the Jews the poor scattered forsaken Jews to seek after the Lord their God and David their King inwardly to be revealed in them and rule among them The Lord God of our Life and tender Mercies carry on to Perfection this blessed Work of his which he hath so mightily begun and so mightily hitherto carried on and keep us in the Sense of his good Spirit and in tender and holy subjection thereto and in Unity together in the Life wherein we have been gathered and preserved and in pure Judgment over all the Workings of the Enemy every where and in the Gospel-love one to another and to all men even our greatest Enemies that we may seek the good of all men even the rescuing and preserving all out of Sin and Wrath as much as in us is possible that the pure Light wherewith our God and Heavenly Father hath enlightned us may shine in us and the Life wherewith he hath ●uickned us may live in us and we may feed on nothing but Life and grow in nothing but Life and Truth to the great Glory of our Heavenly Father and to the great Joy of our Hearts Amen A few words to England my Native Country O Land of my Nativity O my dear Country-men THE pure Power of the Lord is upon me and the Springs of Life open in me and among many other things I am melted in Love and Desires after your Welfare and this is in my Heart to say to you If I now testifie to you in Truth of a Pearl a heavenly Pearl an everlasting Pearl will ye not hear me If I tell you your Heart is the Field or Earth wherein it is hid will ye not consider of it If the everlasting Gospel be preached again which contains true Tidings of Redemption from sin will ye not listen after it If the Kingdom of God and Righteousness of Christ be to be revealed within would ye not willingly learn to wait for it there and beg of God that the Eye may be opened in you which alone can see it when it doth appear Indeed God's Visitation is upon this Nation in an especial manner his Light and Power is breaking forth in it against the Darkness and Power of the Spirit of Satan which hath captivated and still captivateth many Ye desire outward liberty and the enjoyment of your outward rights would ye not be free inwardly Free from the base earthly selfish nature and spirit which man fallen from God and the Glory wherein he created him is degenerated into Oh is not the Power of God and life of Christ able to restore man to this He that created man at first so glorious in his own Image is he not able to create him anew Oh hear my dear Countrymen the Power is revealed which createth anew and they that receive it and are as Clay in the Hands of the great Potter given up to be formed by it are daily created by the Operation of it anew into an holy heavenly innocent living tender righteous Frame Day by Day and are made willing daily more and more to be the Lord's in this Day of his Power and do receive Power to become Sons and strength against their Souls Enemies And the glorious work of Redemption which God hath begun in them the Arm of his strength mightily carrieth on in them to their Comfort and his everlasting Praise There is a spiritual Egypt and Sodom as well as there was an outward and there is a spiritual Wilderness and Canaan also And the Arm of God's Power inwardly and spiritually hath been revealed in this spiritual Egypt Wilderness and Canaan as really as ever it was in the outward Do ye not read of a Jew-inward and a Circumcision-inward and the leaven-inward and keeping the Feast of Unleavened Bread even of Bread that is not leavened with sin And he that eats of this unleavened Bread it unleavens him of sin and leavens him with Life and Holiness For it is an holy Bread and a living Bread This is the Bread which comes down from Heaven which they that feed upon live and

they that live feed upon And though they be many yet feeding upon this Bread they become come one Bread one living Body consisting of a living Head and living Members for the same life and pure heavenly nature which is in the head is communicated by him to the members But how shall we find this may some say I will tell you how we found it and here none can miss of it that sweep the House and make a diligent and faithful search after it That in the heart of man which turns against sin discovers sin draws from sin wherein God ministers help against sin that is it That is the Pearl hid that is the Kingdom hid in that is the Righteousness of God revealed from Faith to Faith in all that receive and give up to this holy leaven This is of the Nature of God and Christ this is a measure of his Light of his pure life this is the law and commandment everlasting which God writes in the hearts of the spiritual Israel For the inward Jew hath inward tables where the inward law is w●it for the inward eye to read O how nigh is God inwardly to the inward people in this our day O the pure glory is broke forth But alas men are in their several sorts of Dreams and take no notice of it What shall the Lord do to awaken this Nation In what way shall his Power appear to bring down Unrighteousness and to bring up Righteousness in the Spirits of People Do ye not think the Lord hath been at work and is still at work How could Deceit be so wasted inwardly and Truth so grown inwardly and overspread more and more and gain ground in the Nation if the hand and Power of the Lord were not with it blessing it O take notice of the handy-work of the Lord ye children of men and wait to feel Truth near and to partake of the living Virtue and Power of it that ye may feel your Hearts creating anew and the old Heavens and Earth may inwardly pass away wherein dwells Unrighteousness and the new Heavens and the new Earth may be inwardly witnessed wherein dwells Righteousness O that this Nation might become a Paradise of God! O that every one might be sensible of his Presence and Power and Kingdom and righteous Government inwardly in the Heart from the King that sits on the Throne to the Begger on the Dunghil Surely man was not made for himself surely he was not made such a Creature as now he is but in the holy Image of God with love in his heart to God above all and to his Neighbour as to himself O what are the Religions and Professions of several sorts where this love is not found The Lord is restoring his Image and bringing forth the true pure Religion again The Pearl the Truth contains comprehends it O buy the Pearl O buy the precious Truth sel all that is contrary to it for it take up the Cross to all that is evil in thee as the Light in thee maketh it manifest and thou shalt have the free Possession of it in thy heart and feel it a root of Life a treasure of Life a well of Life out of which the living water will be daily springing up in thee unto Life everlasting Amen The 22d of the 7th Mon. 1676. Three Queries upon three verses of the 46th Psalm Verse 4. THere is a River the Streams whereof shall make glad the City of God the holy Place of the Tabernacles of the most High Query 1. Which is the River and what are the Streams thereof which make glad the City of God And which is the City of God which they make glad Which are the Tabernacles of the most high and which is the holy Place of those Tabernacles O my dear Country-men that every one in this Nation did understand and enjoy these thing For the Lord is ready to beget a Will to beget a Thirst in the hearts of the Children of Men And whosoever thirsteth whosoever will is called to the Waters and may come to the Waters and take of the Water of Life freely Isa 55.1 Rev. 22.17 yea to the full satisfaction of their Souls For indeed this is the Day of God's Power wherein he doth make his people willing to come to him and to abide with him the Fountain of living Waters And those that do come to him and abide with him he abundantly satisfieth with the Fatness of his House and giveth them to drink of the River of his Pleasures Psal 36.8 9. Mark God is the Fountain of living Waters with him is the Fountain of life a River of Pleasures a River whose Streams make glad the whole City even the holy Place of all the Tabernacles of the most high And he giveth his Citizens to drink of it and whoever drinketh of it it maketh them glad it refresheth their life O that more knew what this means Ver. 5. God is in the midst of her she shall not be moved God shall help her and that right early or when the Morning appeareth or from the Morning appearing Qu. 2. How is God in the midst of this City Is it not more gloriously in an inward way then ever he was in the Temple in the outward Jerusalem in an outward way How is she built How is she founded and scituated How comes it about that she shall not be moved How is God her Refuge and Strength and present help in time of Trouble After what manner doth God arise inwardly and scatter his Enemies How doth the Morning Light help her after what manner when the Enemy cometh in like a Flood doth the Spirit of the Lord lift up a standard against him Ah blessed are they that know and experience and live in the Enjoyment of these things O that this whole Nation did so Were it not worth the suffering of much the denying of much and the bearing of much Judgment to come to this Ver. 10. Be still and know that I am God I will be exalted among or in the Heathen I will be exalted in the Earth Qu. 3. What is that Stilness wherein God is known to be God not outwardly in notion but inwardly in the heart VVhat is that Silence of Mind wherein God teacheth his Israel in the new Covenant to know him as he is even all of them from the greatest to the least How will God come to be exalted in the Heathen and in the Earth Is it not by the Light of his Day breaking forth and shining in them VVhere this Day breaks forth in any heart doth it not bteak down and destroy the Kingdom of Darkness inwardly And doth not the King of glory consume the man of sin the wicked one that was exalted in the Temple before which Temple belonged of right to God with the spirit of his mouth and destroy him with the Brightness of his coming or appearing Isa 11.4 2 Thes 2.8 Then is the Day known vvherein the Lord