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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54075	The way of life and death made manifest and set before men whereby the many paths of death are impleaded, and the one path of life propounded and pleaded for in some positions concerning the apostacy from the Christian spirit and life, with some principles guiding out of it : as also in answers to some objections whereby the simplicity in some may be entangled : held forth in tender good will both Papists and Protestants who have generally erred from the faith for these many generations, since the dayes of the apostles, and with that which they have erred from are they comprehended / by Isac Pennington the younger.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.; Fox, George, 1624-1691. Cause of all error.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662. Here follows the testimony concerning the estate of the true church.	1658 (1658)	Wing P1219; ESTC R14864	89,559	110

be delivered up to it and do not despise the day of smal things waiting for some great appearance but know it in its lowest knock for its power of redemption is as truly there as in its greatest appearance He that hath an ear let him hear and his soul shal live Let those therefore whom this concerns consider their waies as the grace that appeared to me hath taught me to do and try their foundation upon what they stand and that they do not kill what is opened and live in the slain openings and so in the end become dark airy dry withered wheeling about and turning into the earth it becoming their rest and foundation again and so loosing the joyes which formerly the opener did open This with me many of you may witness for whom my desire is that they may also witness the return to that which then opened and live in the opener and be preserved by him from abusing his precious openings any more For though I had a true taste of life and power from God yet not knowing the foundation there could be no true building with it and so the spirit was quenched the life wasted the portion spent upon harlots the true bread lost and chaff and husks fed upon without the least satisfaction to the soul the sense whereof when the spirit of the Lord awakened me did almost over-whelm me Yea the bands of death were so strengthned upon me and the spirit of the word had taken such hold of me that I found my return very difficult yea when living words of hope were mentioned to me to draw me back to that principle of life from which I had gone out I could receive nothing but cry out impossible impossible impossible I felt my self like a tree twice dead plucked up by the roots without the capacity of life sence or motion in the eternal being any more But at length it pleased life to move in a low way in the midst of the powers of darkness in my heart and by sinking low out of the wisdom out of the reason out of all high imaginations and trusting my self to it though dreadful stroaks and oppositions were felt from the powers of darkness yet at length there was some appearance of the deliverer in such a poor low weak despicable way as could never have been welcomed had not the soul been first brought to distress and the loftiness of the imaginary part brought down And then coming out of that into the feeling in another part there was a seed sprung up into a child and as that child grows and feeds on the milk of the immortal word I live am strengthened in him and daily weakned in that part which lived before These are true words from an honest heart for the relief of those who may have been entangled in the same snare Here follows the Testimony Concerning the Estate of the True Church what she hath been and what she is and it was given forth as being the motion of the Spirit of the Father and left with me and is Judged sutable and servicable to be here inserted and it may be for the edification of many COncerning the True State of the Church what she hath been and what she is at this day and concerning her increase and decrease thorough ages and generations past and her present State is this returning again out of the Wilderness where she hath long been fed having a place prepared of God Now the Apostle saw her a woman clothed with the Sun covered with the light of Heaven and with the glory of God having the Moon under her feet the light which was ordained to rule the night Thus she was and this was her state in the dayes of the Apostles when many were converted out of darknesse and renewed to be members of this Church for her glory shone through the World and she flourished through Nations and this was her Estate in the Apostles dayes and she travelled to bring forth the man-child Christ Jesus which is the child and husband of this woman which was clothed with the brightness of the glory of God the elected spouse of Christ the Lambs wife and his body of his flesh and of his bones having power and dominion and treading under all contrary And thus was it with her in generations past whose seed spring forth as branches fruitful and glorious But in process of time it came to pass that this woman the spouse of Christ his body the wife and mother of thi● man-child she was bereaved of her beauty and her garments were taken away her seed was made war against and was smitten and overcome and she fled into the wilderness and there hath sat desolate as a widow lamenting the losse of her children and being deprived of her husband and the man child which should have ruled the Nations for she hath been fled into the Wilderness and her former beauty hath not appeared to be and her former glory hath seemed to be gone and she hath been driven away from her head from her husband and from her seed Behold all people the Estate of such a woman and read this parable who can a woman most glorious and fair having her husband ruler of the whole earth and having an heir born to rule over heaven and earth being covered with the light of heaven and of the everlasting day and having the light of the night under her feet yet hath this woman been deprived of her glory and sate desolate in the Wilderness a mournfull place seperated from her husband and made childless and without seed and what ey that sees this a right but must mourn and what heart that truly perceives it but must lament a woman so great and so glorious and so fruitful as to bring forth the heir of heaven and earth yet hath she been left as a mourner as without husband and without issue for many generations This hath been her estate and condition for ages since the dayes of the Apostle which John saw in a vision would shortly come to pass after him and we see it hath been come to pass within this sixteen hundred years and this hath been the estate of the true Church for many ages a woman childless whose heir hath been taken from her and whose seed hath been made war against and killed for many generations But her time was decreed and she should but be thus for so many dayes and now are the dayes expired and she again shall receive her heir that hath been caught up from her and her seed shall spring forth and her slain shall live and her beauty shall be given her and her first glory shall be increased and she shall feed no longer in the mourning Wilderness but she shall be fed upon the Mountain of Gods house which is to be established upon the top of all mountains and her seed shall spring forth numberless and her heir shall rule with an iron rod and her marriage day is

part of the Scriptures which killeth and cannot give life and what do they minister with but their own understanding part what meanings they can invent what deductions the wisdom can draw from the Scriptures but do not see the true meaning in the infallible and unerring light and what do they minister to but the understanding part in you whereas there is somewhat else to be ministred to by the true Minister and what do they minister to you but food for the understanding food for the serpentine wisdom which alwaies fed upon knowledge but never upon the true bread and hereby another thing is fed in you and not your souls but they are kept in leanness and barrenness under death and the bondage of corruption which Paul cryed out upon as a wretched state and could find no ease rest or freedom from condemnation there and without the true life and redemption I do do not deny but ye may there meet with some kind of warmth in the affectionate part which may be heated by a fire and sparks of mans kindling and blowing up and this may go for life with you now but in the presence of the truth where the eye is opened it vanisheth yea the spirit of the Lord hath so blown upon it that it is even withered in the sight of a more inferiour eye in many people Position III. THat there is to be a recovery a true recovery out of this state of Apostacy into the true state of Christianity again God will not let the desolations of Sion remain for ever but he will again build up Sion and appear in his glory He will set his King upon his holy hill of Sion The new Jerusalem shall again come down from heaven The Man-childe which was taken up shall come down again conquering and to conquer the Lamb shal get the victory over the Whore and over all her apostatized Nations and Churches that have a name and not the life and he shall rule them with a rod of iron and make them a desolation which have made his holy city desolate and trample them down which have trampled upon it The lofty City he will lay low he wil lay it low even to the ground he wil bring it even to the dust The foot shall tread it down the feet of the poor the steps of the needy The whore shall be judged with the beast whereupon she rode the life which they trod upon shall rise up in the mighty power of the Lord and over-turn them The everlasting Gospel shall be again preached to them that dwel on the earth and to every Nation and kindred and tongue and people Rev. 14. 6. Mark the Gospel that was preached to the Nations all the time of the Apostacy was not the everlasting Gospel that Gospel did not bring life and immortality to life but they were hid from mens eyes and men had only a sound of words in stead of the thing And thus poor Nations kindreds people tongues were every where bewitched with a form of things with an outward knowledg a perishing knowledg in the perishing part a vain traditional invented worship which stands in the wisdom and will of man but had no union and fellowship with that which is everlasting And thus all the Nations in the smoke of the bottomlesse pit run into the pit from whence the smoke came But the Lord hath a time to pitty the poor Nations and to send forth his true everlasting Gospel again to deliver the Nations from that witchery and sorcery and spiritual inchantment which got up in the dark And as this everlasting light springs up then down goes Babylon down go all invented doctrines all invented forms all invented worships and that wisdom and evill spirit that raised them up Babylon is fallen is fallen that great City because she made all Nations drunk of the wine of the cup of her fornication Rev. 14. 1 And now the new wine of the kingdom which is tasted of in the everlasting Gospel purges out the old wine and the drunkennesse which thereby came upon the Nations wasts And they that have tasted of this life and know this life can never be bewitched back again by the whorish spirit to dead forms ●nd likenesses without life Nay when Babylon falls she can rise no more Though the life fall often it can rise again but when the witchery from the life is discovered and cast into the pit it can get out no more Indeed the beast hath had all the strength of the Nations and the whore hath had all the wisdom all the esteem all the honor who can make war with the beast who can shew miracles and wonders like the false Prophets who can teach but the wise learned orthodox men that have the arts and know the original yea there 's another that can make war and a Prophet that can preach better then them one that can preach life one that can preach the everlasting Gospel and knows the original of it one that is wiser and stronger then the whore and by his wisdom and strength is able to judge her and cast her out of the Nations though she hath got very strong possession Rev. 18. 8. Now learn wisdom know the parable of the fig-tree come to the life that is arisen and abide not in the death that is passed and passing away Ye have heard the voice of the Whore ye have drunk of her cup ye have been bewitched ye have set up her inventions but have wanted the thing which cannot be invented and which the inventing understanding cannot comprehend But if the force of the wine still remain upon you so that ye cannot hearken after or let in that which is everlasting assure your selves as the life rises ye will meet with plagues and wrath from it in stead of the refreshments it brins to others and know what it is to sit down under a dead talk of without feeling the living power of redemption Therefore be wise and know the times and seasons That will not be born with now which was born with formerly but as the love and power of God to salvation hath more appeared so the severity against those who now resist will appear more also And death shall have its sting which they that will love darknesse and hate the light shall feel Position IV. THat they that are in those things which have been set up in the times of the Apostacy are not yet come to the recovery from the Apostacy They that are in the Doctrines and bodies of Divinity which have been formed since are not in the true Doctrine They that are in the rules of life which wise Church-men or Synods or Councils have given or which they themselves have gathered by their industry out of the Scriptures are not in the true living and everlasting rule They that are in the worship or under the Ministry or of any Church which hath been set up since by the power of man

betrayed and held captive by the whorish spirit that sits ruler in judgment I do not speak of all people of all sects that they have zeal and simplicity but of some people in all sects and through all these false Churches and so the spirit which has guided the judgment that has abased the zeal and abused the sincerity and betrayed it so people have been a running running after the form and blind in judgement and lost sincerity and simplicity that has been betrayed in them though sometime appearing and stirring and so the wrong part in people has fed upon the form and appearance and the seed starved and the sincerity eaten out and so one sect hath made this the rule of their judgment and another sect another thing the rule of their judgment one cries tradition another Scriptures another cries the practice of Saints before us none of all have been guided in judgment by the spirit of the Lord and where the spirit of the Lord is not the onely rule of judgment guiding the judgment in all things that people and that man are in error and the sincerity in them hath not its free course but bound under with a spirit which is bondage and leads into bondage and when people comes to be turned to the light of Christ in them and receive a measure of the Spirit of the Lord to guide the judgment then the sincerity and simplicity and zeal wil grow and thrive and be increased but til then the good is eaten out that lies under and is oppressed and ever and alwaies the desire quenched the sincerity lost the simplicity betrayed by the spirit of whoredom which rules the judgment and these things are manifest in our age therefore all people come out of your sects and false Churches for the woman is returned and returning out of the wilderness and the seed shal spring forth as in the dayes of old E. B. A Testimony of great concernment to all that call themselves Christians but have not known the true Church of which alone the true Christian can be born THere hath been a great War between the woman and her seed and the harlot and her seed from the beginning to this day and they have each had their prevailings in the war The woman and her seed have been made strong in God to conquer some of the territories of death and to set up their life in the world Thus in the Jewish state God prepared an heaven and an earth for the woman and her seed and when that heaven and earth was shaken he prepared a more glorious heaven and earth in the Christian state Now no sooner was the Church and her seed seated in either of these but the Dragon made made war against her and in the war had power given him to recover her seat from her Thus the Devil gat possession of the Jewish state so that there was no room for the true Church there but all was in idolatry and corruption and the Lord was not served by their ceremonies by their sacrifices by their Sabbaths by their new moons by their Temple-worship c. but the Devil And the Devil also got possession of the heaven and earth in the Christian state so that in their Ordinances in their worships in their duties in that which they call their Churches God hath not been worshipped in truth but the Devil for this many ages For mark who was it that got into the Temple of God was it not Antichrist was it not the Spirit of Satan 2 Thes 2. 4. And who was it that was worshipped in all the world that had power given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations and whom all that dwel upon the earth worship was it not the Dragon Rev. 13. 7 8. Did not all the world wonder after the beast and worship the Dragon which gave power unto the beast ver 3. 4. of that Chap. The woman was assaulted here her strong holds taken from her so that she could not stay safe in that heaven and earth which God had made for her therefore there was another place prepared for her by God in the wilderness and she had wings of an Eagle given her to fly thither but the Dragon got into and held possession of that heaven where she was before Rev. 12. So that none hath known the Church all this time but he that hath been born of her in the wilderness which was a place the world never dreamed of but looked for her in the heaven and the earth which the Devil had got possession of And here they cry up the Ordidinances the Ordinances duties the Church the Ministry c. as the Jews did the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord not knowing in whose hands these were and whom they worshipped hereby Now consider this O ye Christians I speak what I assuredly know that God could not be truly worshipped in any of these while they were in the Devils hands but the whorish Spirit and her seed worship here and the worship of the Church and her seed was a wildernessworship or a worship which she learned of God in the wilderness Mark now and consider my testimony O ye Christians I deny all the worship all the Ordinances which were taught the Christians of old now practised by the whorish spirit for the Devil had gained it and corrupted it and having corrupted it God could not be any more worshipped in it but the Antichristian spirit sate there giving forth those things as his Laws He sate in the Temple of God and there made use of the Vessels and Ordinances which he had carried captive into his Babylon and I deny it to be possible to have any true use of these til the time of the recovery And now the time of the recovery is come and the restitution begun people know it not but cry up the old heaven and the old earth which Satan had corrupted setting it up in opposition against the new which God hath new formed and is bringing forth in true beauty and glory Now in this war though the Devil though the harlot and her seed gat the womans seat from her and banished her seed as it were out of the earth yet they were not able to touch the woman nor to over-come the life of God in her seed but onely to kil their bodies but the life was stil conqueror over them and not subjected to them They could raise up Churches and Ordinances and Ministers and duties and cause all that dwel on the earth to worship in some part or other of this Babylon but they could never make the seed bow to any of their images nor could they hurt the woman hereby who was in the wilderness out of the reach of all these And there she did eat the bread of life with tears mourning over her desolate estate and her loss of children And here alone was the true bread of life which was not to be known or