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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54043	Naked truth, or, Truth nakedly manifesting itself in several particulars for the removing of hinderances out of the way of the simple-hearted, that they may come to true knowledge, life, liberty, peace and joy in the Lord, through the vertue and power of his precious truth, revealed and working in them : given forth by way of question and answer : whereunto are added, some experiences, with some Scriptures very sweet, and necessary to be experienced in the Gospel-state : as also, a few words concerning the true Christ, and a few words in the bowels of tender love and good will to my native country / by a long mourner and traveller after, but as length an happy experiencer of the truth, as it is in Jesus, Isaac Pennington.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1674 (1674)	Wing P1179; ESTC R39811	53,138	126

Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me and take not they holy spirit from me c. saith he Psal 51.10 11. after his fall shewing what he had been acquainted with before and what he now God having touched his spirit afresh began to long after again And saith he in another place O send out thy Light and thy Truth let them lead me let them bring me unto thy Hill and to thy Tabernacles Psa 43.3 O the sweetness of Light within Truth within O the precious leadings and drawings thereof which where once felt upon a fresh and tender remembrance thereof cannot but be longed after again VI. Concerning the Sun or Fountain of Spiritual Light Quest Whether the holy Scriptures or written Testimonies be the Sun or Fountain and the Light within but a ray or stream from them as is affirmed by my Antagonist Answ It is just quite contrary for the holy Men spake the holy words from the inward Light and quickning Life of Gods Spirit within them so that that was the Fountain in them and is so still With thee is the Fountain of Life And he that believeth as the Scriptures have said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water This spake he of the Spirit Joh. 7.39 that 's the Fountain The water that I shall give him shall be in him a Well of Water springing up into everlasting Life Joh. 4.14 Who esteems honours the Scriptures aright He that believes their Testimony comes to Christ and makes his Spirit Light and Life all or he that sets the Scriptures in the stead of that Word of Life which they came from testifie of and point men to as the fountain and foundation of Life and Salvation to all mankind VII Concerning the Words being a Fire and a Hammer to burn up the Chaff and break the Rocks in pieces Quest Is the Word which is a fire and hammer the Testimonies and Declarations of the holy Scriptures without or the Word nigh in the mouth and heart Answ That which I have felt hammering inwardly that which I have felt burning inwardly unquenchably as the mind has been kept to it has been the Word of Life it self from which the good words and holy testimonies proceed That which does the work in the inward Jew is the inward Ministration of the inward Covenant the appearance of God there He is the consuming Fire he is the Spirit of Judgment and Burning who by his holy flamings inwardly burns up the filth of the daughter of Sion A man may be exercised in the letter all his dayes and yet witness nothing of this inwardly in Truth and Righteousness but he whom the Spirit of Judgment and Burning inwardly comes nigh and whose flesh is kept in that holy furnace it will be consumed there day by day until it be quite wasted and destroyed and so he come to be judged according to the flesh and to live to God in the Spirit VIII Concerning God's writing his Law in the heart Quest How doth God write his Law in the heart Answ By his Spirit and Power working there whereby he both creates a new Heart and writes the new Law even the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus in the new Heart The Isles shall wait for his Law Whose Law The Law of the Messiah the Law of Grace which gives dominion the Law of the Anointing the Law of the New-Birth the Law of the Holy Seed His Seed remaineth in him 1 Joh. 3.9 In that Seed is the new Nature and the new Law both What is the Law of Sin what is the Law of Death how is it written in the Heart How doth the enemy write it there but by his corrupt spirit and nature And doth not God by his holy Spirit and Nature write the new Law the Law of Life in the hearts of those that are renewed and made tender to the impressions of his holy quickning Power every motion and drawing whereof is a Law to them who are born of the Spirit and taught of God to eye and walk after the quickning Spirit IX Concerning the inward Light of God's Spirit Quest What is it which the mind is to be turned to to enlighten it and to work the darkness and corruption out of it Answ It is no less than the Light of God's Spirit nothing else can do it The day-spring must arise from on high in the heart or there will be night for ever there All notions or apprehensions concerning the Light will not do it it is the shining of the Light alone inwardly which is able to expel the darkness there It was not for nothing that Christ came a Light to enlighten men and directed men to follow him the Light that they might not abide in Darkness and that he sent his Apostles with this message that God is Light and in him is no darkness at all and so gave his Apostles wisdom authority and power to turn men from the darkness to the light And if the darkness was within which they were to be turned from surely the light must shine within to discover the darkness and to that light must they be turned And in this light the holy Spirit is received and dwells there but out of this light and the limits thereof in every heart dwells the unclean and dark spirit and hath power and rule there for nothing but the light and strength of Gods Spirit is able to break his Kingdom and dominion inwardly in the heart X Concerning the Ministers and Ministry of the Gospel Quest Who are the ministers and what is the ministry of the Gospel Answer They are the ministers of the Gospel who have received that spirit and power wherein the ministry of the Gospel stands For Christ came in the spirit and power of the Father and he sends his Apostles and Ministers in the same spirit and power that they might be able to beget and reach to that birth which is to be begotten and ministred to It is one thing to be a Minister of the Law and to minister Letter and another thing to be a Minister of the Gospel and to minister Spirit The Apostles were able Ministers of the New Testament not of the Letter but of the Spirit and so are all in a degree who succeed them in any measure or proportion of their Ministry For the Ministry of the Gospel is in the Light Spirit and Power of the most High to turn peoples minds to a proportion of the same Light Spirit and Power in themselves and so to come to the manifestation and quickning of the same Life in themselves that so they may walk in the same Light For the Life is the Light and he can never have Light or see Light who comes not first to feel some vertue from the quickning Power O how precious is this ministry blessed be the Lord for his renewing of it in these our days And this ministry is not to

spiritual effects in the Mind and that this is it even that which slays the enmity in the mind and crucifies to the World and the affections thereof God forbid said the Apostle that I should glory save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ whereby the World is crucified unto me and I unto the World Now mark That which is contrary to the World and crucifies to the World that is the Cross The Cross hath its power and nothing else and so there is nothing else to glory in The flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh and these are contrary one to the other Mind here is the Cross The Spirit which is contrary to the flesh which mortifies the flesh through the Obedience whereof the flesh is crucified If ye through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body ye shall live Whatsoever is of and in the Spirit it is contrary to the flesh The light of the Spirit is contrary to the darkness of the flesh The holiness of the Spirit is contrary to the unholiness of the corrupt heart The Life of the Spirit is contrary to the Life or rather death that is in sin The power of the Spirit is contrary to the power that is in Satan and his Kingdom The Wisdom of God is contrary and a foolish thing to the Wisdom of man Yea the new Creature which springs from God's Holy Spirit is contrary and death to the old Now he that comes hither out of his own Wisdom out of his own will out of his own thoughts out of his own reasonings and comes to a discerning of God's Spirit and to the feeling of his begetting of life in his heart and his stirrings and movings in the life which he hath begotten and waits here and receives counsel here he is taught to deny himself and to joyn to and take up that by which Christ daily crosseth and subdueth in him that which is contrary to God And here is the fight of Faith and the good travel under the Cross whereby the holy journey is gone and the enemies which rise up to oppose in the way vanquished and overcome For here is the power revealed the preserving power the leading power the conquering power of him who rideth on conquering and to conquer his spiritual enemies in the hearts of his Children who know his voice and are subiect to him who daily denying themselves and taking up his Cross follow him Wo is to them that are at ease in Sion under any thing that is contrary to God but blessings are upon them whose dwelling is under the Cross and who know no ease but what it allows It will make Truth Life Holiness Righteousness Faith Obedience Meekness Patience Love Separation from Sin Communion with the Lord and all the fruits of the Spirit as natural to them in the renewed state as ever sin was in the corrupt state And in that state they shall be able to say with Paul who once complained of his captivity and that he did what he hated yet after he had known the power of the Cross and was crucified with Christ he could then do nothing against the truth but for the truth Yea then being a conquerer having overcome the enemies which stood in his way he could do all things through Christ that strengthened him The cause of so many complaints and bowings down the head going mourning because of the prevailings of the enemy through temptations sin and corruption is because the Cross of Christ which is the power of God which is his Ordinance against the strength of the enemy is either not known or not taken up And this is the reason that many that make a fair shew for a while yet afterwards come to nothing but are like untimely figs or like corn upon the House-tops which hastily springeth up but soon withereth because they either rightly never learn or keep not to the Cross For that alone hath power from God to bring down and keep down that which is contrary to him So that from under the Cross of Christ there is no witnessing Salvation or preservation from the Lord but out of the limits of the Cross the enemy hath power to recover and bring back under his dominion again And whosoever in his travels leaves the Cross behind him does draw back unto perdition and not travel on in the living faith and newness of Obedience towards the Salvation of the Soul X Concerning the Mystery of Life and the Mystery of the fellowship which is therein God is hid from Man as he lies in his sinful and fallen estate and no Man can find or know him but as he pleaseth to reveal himself by his own blessed Spirit And Christ being God's image there is no knowing or confessing him or right calling him Lord but in and by the same Spirit 1. Cor. 12 3. When he appeared in the days of his flesh flesh and bloud could not reveal him but only the Father And he is the same to day as he was yesterday He is not to be known now but in the same Spirit in his own Grace and Truth in a measure of his own Life The dead cannot know him they only know him who are his Sheep who are quickned and made alive by him And this Life is a Mystery none can understand it but they that partake of it Can a man that is naturally dead know what the Life of nature means No more can a man that is spiritually dead know what the Life of the Spirit means The natural Man may get the words that came from Life and cry up them and speak great words of the same of Wisdom and of her Children but the thing it self is hid from them all O it is a strait gate at which the birth enters at which none else can enter The wise and prudent knowers and searchers after the flesh and of the Scriptures as they can put meanings upon them and comprehend them are shut out in every age but ther 's a babe born of naked Truth born of the pure simplicity admitted by God while men disdain and despise it And the fellowship of the Saints is in the Life and in the Light which is this Mystery The fellowship is not outward but inward All they that meet together in the outward place are not in the fellowship or worship but only they they meet together in the inward Life and Spirit They that worship the Father must worship him in Spirit and Truth Look ther 's the worship there are the worshippers They that are in the Spirit in the Truth They that meet in the Spirit in the Truth they meet together in the one spiritual place as I may call it And so we own no man after the flesh no man according to the appearance but in the righteous judgment of the Spirit those only who are of the Spirit Indeed we are tender where there is the least beginning of the work of God in any

heart yea where there is but so much as a conviction of the understanding but Men are not presently of us who own our Principle in words or outward appearance but only such as are inwardly changed thereby in heart It is true Persons may walk among us afterwards go out from us who were never of us as it was in the Apostles days that were never in the fellowship of Life with us whom we could never own in the sight of the the Lord as being born of him though we were willing to wait and watch for their good that they might come to witness the true birth Now from such come the offences even from the falling off of such as never were truly ingraffed and also from the slips of such who are not watchful to that which preserves And wo is to the World because of the offences which cannot but come For they which are not approved in the sight of the Lord must not somewhat or other happen to make them manifest And when they are made manifest the World's eye is offended and is apt to think hardly of and reproach the Truth it self because of them But blessed is the eye which sees into the Mystery into the Life it self where there is no offence but Truth is one and the same for ever XI Concerning Judging according to the appearance and Judging righteous Judgment Judg not according to the appearance said Christ but Judg righteous Judgment Joh. 7.24 What is it to Judg according to the appearance and what is it to Judg righteous Judgment I shall speak what I have experienced having been deeply exercised about this thing Mark then The holy Spirit of Life breatheth upon the heart and by his breathing and working there he quickens and begets life Joh. 3.8 And that which is begotten and born of him is begotten and born into his nature and so is of the same nature with him as ver 6 of that chap. Now to that which is born of the Spirit the Spirit is the leader the preserver the supporter the comforter the daily quickner He can do nothing without the Spirit without the present Life and Power of him that begat him So that all the judgment which the birth of Life hath is from and of and in the holy Spirit of the Father And here is true Judgment both concerning righteousness and against all unrighteousness So that keep to the Life keep to the Spirit keep to the Birth keep to the Power then is the Wisdom and righteous judgment of God revealed But any that go out of this and measure without this they measure in the unrighteousness and though they search the Scriptures and think in themselves they measure from the Scriptures yet they are mistaken and measure but from their own knowledg and apprehensions upon the Scriptures as the Scribes and Pharisees did when they seemed to conclude upon searching the Scriptures that Christ could not be the Messiah Joh. 7.52 Search and Look said they for out of Galilee ariseth no Prophet How then can this Galilean be he See by the Scriptures if this can be the Christ It is said of Christ He shall not Judg after the sight of his eyes nor reprove after the hearing of his Ears but with righteousness shall he Judg c. Isa 11.3 4. Christ Judged righteous Judgment How came he to Judg so Why he judged in and with the Spirit He kept to the Spirits judgment The Spirit of the Lord rest●d upon him and made him quick of understanding in the fear of the Lord ver 2 3. And no man can judg aright concerning the things of God but in and by the same Spirit How shall I know whether m● duties be right my Prayers right my waies right m worsh p r ght my faith right my hope of the right kind my knowledg and understanding of the Scriptures right c Why there is no e but one can determine He who bege●teth life know● whether that which is in thee be from his life and whether that which thou oferest to h m be truly living or no. And when the Lord separates the living from the dead what will remain in many that make great pro●ssions at this day I would have no man mistaken about these things I know many are deeply mistaken as their own hearts will one day acknowledg when the Lord shall make manifest to them how they have called evil good and g●od evil and put darkness for light and l ght for darkness Indeed it is just as it was in the dayes of Christ's appearing outwardly in a body of flesh The same Life the same Spirit is denyed now as was then Then the Jews cryed up hrist to come but they then spiritually saw him not They saw the flesh or outward form but they saw not him who dwelt in that flesh And though the World of Christians now acknowledg Christ is come and did appear Yet neither do they know him who did appear but deny his life his Spirit his vertue his power which is revealed in this day of his love and goodness to the eyes of the Children of the true Wisdom O let not flesh Judg. Be silent O all flesh before the Lord and cease judging for he is arisen to Judg. He is Judg in the midst of his people and he will Judg the Heathen also And every one brings this near Wait to feel flesh judged in thee and brought down in thee that it may not Judg in thee but Spirit and Life may be exalted and sit upon the Throne in thy Heart And when Life is exalted doth begin to Judg Oh take heed of harkening to the flesh of letting in the Judgment of flesh afterwards lest the Spirit be grieved and quenched For the Wisdom of the flesh is near and will be striving to get in and recover its seat again and if the watch be not singly kept to God's Holy Spirit somewhat else will be judging in thee which will Judg according to the appearance of things to thy mind and so thou wilt miss of the true and righteous judgment of God's Spirit XII A Question answered about knowing God's Spirit Quest How shall I know God's Spirit How shall I know the motions thereof How may I know whether the Faith and Hope in my heart be from him whether my prayers and desires arise thence c. Answ No man of himself or by any way he of himself can take can know God's Spirit There must first be a capacity given before any man can know the Spirit of the Lord His Life his Power must first be felt and somewhat quickned somewhat formed by him somewhat begotten of him which is spirit and this can know him Now man in this may know him but out of this can never know him Therefore this is the great skill and diligence and wisdom of a Christian to keep to this to wait for this to have his eye towards the pure spring of wisdom that when