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A54044	The New-Covenant of the gospel distingnished [sic] from the Old Covenant of the law and the rest or sabbath of believers, from the rest or sabbath of the Jews, which differ as much from each other, as the sign and shadow doth from the thing signified and shadowed out : in answer to some queries of W. Salters, tending to enforce upon Christians the observation of the Jewish sabbath ... whereto are added Some considerations propounded to the Jews, tending towards their conversion to that which is the life and spirit of the law / by Isaac Penington ...	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.; Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679. Some considerations propounded to the Jewes.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1180; ESTC R40658	44,112	58

the Spirit and in obedience to those Commands which come livingly into his heart from the Spirit of prophesie Fourthly That the fourth Command is to be in love kept by all believers Ans. All the Commands of Christs Covenant are to be kept by believers according as he pleaseth to dispence them under his administration in the New Covenant but the laws of the Old Covenant are not the laws of the New Covenant as so dispensed but only as they are comprehended in the righteousness which is taught and required by the spirit which is fuller stricter and exacter then that which the law of Moses required Nor do I hereby go about to teach any to break the least of Christ's Commands but the way to fulfill them which is by keeping to the certain knowledg and obedience of them in that ministration where Christ hath promised to dispense and make them known to believers which is under the ministry of his own Covenant writing them in their hearts and minds by his Spirit And here the keeping of all Christs Commands is possible yea this is the onely way to have the righteousness of the Law fulfilled in us for he that keeps the eye which the spirit hath opened in him close to the Spirit shall not be able to break any law of righteousness but the righteousness even of Moses his law shall be fulfilled in him Christ is the rest of the Gospel as he is also the holy land believing is the entring into this rest here 's his Sabbath and the keeping of it Keep in the faith the Gospel rest is kept Parting with every lust that he makes manifest observing every thing that this King calls for by his Spirit and waiting for the further manifestation or shining of the Light of his Spirit in the heart here 's the obedience of the faith and the holy and spirituall life and subjection of the living soul to its living King Here 's the beginning of a true Christian his growth his perfection But as for times places persons c. these are of another nature to another part even to that part in man which is to be done away as hee comes into the faith and into the rest Let that which is invisible whose habitation is out of the reasoning part feel and read me in that which is invisible for I do not make void the law by faith or through publishing the ministry of the Spirit but establish it in its ministration in the Spirit to the Disciples of Christ who keeping to the Spirit cannot transgress the righteousness of it though they may there learn not to esteem one day above another but to esteem every day no days having ever had any reall holiness in them one above another but only a figurative or representative which the substance Christ and his Gospel swallow up for as his day dawns those things which were the shadows of it fly away The second Letter Answered Object 1. It is said to be dangerous so to hold forth the Spirituall Sabbatism as to deny the weekly Sabbath wherein our Lord Jesus Christ rested c. and which he blessed and sanctified to Adam and his posterity c. Ans. The Gospell is a state of substance of fulfilling the types and shadows of the Law by bringing believers into the possession of that which they signified of Canaan was a type of Christ who is the land of the living in whom every believer hath an habitation at present according to the proportion of his faith and the Sabbath is the day of rest which every believer is to celebrate to Christ in this holy land which he doth by believing and obeying his Spirit in the faith which keepeth him out of the sin the unbelief the unrest But that the Sabbath of the law the rest thereof which pointed to the faith is still to be held up in the times of the Gospel I know no Scripture which so teacheth and I know somewhat which teacheth me otherwise The day is dawned blessed be the Lord God Almighty the everlasting day is dawned and the shadows of the Law are flown away Object 2. It is said that Heb. 4. Speaks of three rests The seventh day or Sabbath rest Israels rest in Canaan and a remaining rest whereof David speaks Psalm 95. Ans. I grant it There were two rests under the law which were signs of the one rest under the Gospel The two under the Law were outward and natural the one under the Gospel inward and Spiritual answerable to the state of the Gospel· David was not only acquainted with the Law-state but with the free spirit Psalm 51. and the eternal law thereof He knew the new Creation the creating of a new Spirit with its travell through the law also the new rest He knew the circumcision of the heart the spirituall sacrifices of a broken heart and of praise he could take the cup of salvation and sing the song of praise to the Lord which none can do in the strange land nor on any other day but the day of rest And he incites Israel to this rest that they might not harden their hearts against it but in the day of their visitation enter into it by hearkning to the Word which was nigh them which gives the entrance through the faith To day if ye will hear his voyce harden not your hearts c. There is a rest ye are now called to enter into as your fathers were called to enter into the land of Canaan harden not your hearts as they did but hear the voice hear the word which calls to this rest believe and enter This rest remains says the Apostle the others were types of it under the law-state which was to pass away Object 3. It is said Ceremoniall signs are done away but the ten Commands under the mercy-seat are of an other nature and that there are signs which are not yet abolished as the Rainbow Sun Moon and Stars but still remain for us to make good use of Answ. The mercy-seat under the Law is done away and the substance thereof is come and will ye not give him leave to write his law in the Tables which he shall choose where his Disciples may read it with the eye which hee gives Is his law now to be read in the shadow or with the outward eye or to be looked for under the old mercy-seat of the outward tabernacle or is it to be read with the eye of the new creature with the eye of faith with the eye of the Spirit in the everlasting Gospel where the life it self is read and in other books or writings without but tidings or relations of the life Here Christ here the Spirit here the eternall life here the love the joy the peace the rest the purity which is eternall is seen is felt is handled is injoyed for the true faith is indeed the substance of the things hoped for giving victory over the enemies which disturb and a quiet habitation

this Jerusalem was a type of an inward building in the Spirits of Gods people both in its rearing up in its scituation in its standing in Gods dealing with it all the time of its standing and lastly in its downfall and utter desolation There is an appearance and building of God in the Spirits of his People which is to give way to and be swallowed up in a fuller and higher appearance But the fleshly spirit getting into this building will not give way to the further and more inward spirituall appearance of the Spirit but will have the first building stand as the building and will entertain no further appearance of God then as it can comprehend it subject it and afford it a place in the first building Hereupon God distresseth Ariel even the City which David built saying within his heart surely that which I have built will I break down and that which I have planted will I pluck up even this whole land So he causeth the overflowing scourge to pass even over Thy whole land O Immanuel Now when the enemy enters within the holy City and within the holy Temple it is time to fly and exceeding great distress will befall that Disciple whose flight is either on the Winter or on the Sabbath day Do not imagine at this but if the Lord open it not at present wait his season for the thing is true and sealed both by the openings of the Light eternall and by sensible exercises and experiences from that Light Thus I have answered such of the Queries as concern the seventh days Sabbath Such as seem to argue the unwarrantableness of observing the first day of the week for a Sabbath I leave to those to whom they are tendred and of whom an Answer seems so conscienciously zealously desired as I do not see how it can be reasonably neglected or denied that by weighty evidence of Scripture he may be reduced if he hath erred but if not but it be truth vvhich he hath therein held forth the Lord may be honored in mens bovving and subjecting to every truth of his by vvhat instruments soever it pleaseth him to make it manifest Some Queries sent in writing upon occasion of an Epistle directed to all such as observe the Seventh Day of the week for a Sabbath Answered Query 1. IF the whole Law of Moses the Law of the ten Commandments as well as the Law of Sacrifices were both added upon one and the same account for transgressions Then why doth the holy Spirit in the Scriptures lay forth such an antiphitical use of them I suppose he means anti-tipical the one that sin might abound Rom. 5.20 the other sacrificing for sin Heb. 9.7 8 9. Ans. That the Lavv of Moses vvas added because of transgression is manifest from that Scripture quoted by me in my Epistle as vvel as from other Scriptures and one end vvhy it vvas added in relation to transgression vvas that the offence might abound vvhich vvould make the Sacrifice or propitiation for sin appear more necessary and more acceptable And the sacrifices also relate to the sinner some referring to the sin committed others to the thankfulness and acknovvledgement due for the peace mercy and blessings of God tovvards his poor sinful erring creatures both vvhich vvere to last till the time of reformation from the sin Heb. 9.10 Gal. 3.19 But that they vvere both added upon one and the same account that I did not affirm that is vvrongfully put upon me Now though both these were added because of transgression yet they had not both the same use and service in relation to transgression but the one was added to discover sin and to make it appear exceeding sinful Rom. 5.20 the other to blot it out to take it away to make atonement for it which the sacrifices did making the sinner upright and perfect as relating to that outward state and capacity though they could not as pertaining to the conscience Heb. 9.9 Qu. 2. If the whole Law the ten Commandments as well as the Sacrifices were representations figures or shadows of somewhat relating to Christ the Seed Then what did they in general or either of them in particular represent figure or shadow forth before they were written in Tables of stone or since they were written in Tables of stone more of Christ then then now Answ. That the ten Words were some of the Precepts of Moses and appertaining to the first Testament or Covenant all which Precepts were sprinkled with blood cannot be denied And the Apostle distinguisheth the Precepts of Moses under the Law which were sprinkled with the blood of the Sacrifices under the Law Heb. 7.19 from the Precepts of Christ which he writes in other Tables ch. 10.16 which also are sprinkled with blood but not with the blood of Bulls and Goats but with his own blood and he that receives any of these Precepts out of the blood of Christ cannot truly and spiritually obey them though he may strive much to form his spirit into the obedience thereof Now the time and season of their signification was the time which God allotted them under the Law wherein was the use of signs but the Gospel is a state of substance of bringing the life and immortality into the heart and into the possession of believers which the state of the Law shadowed So that they are not signs since the Gospel since Christ put an end to the Law-signs shadows and figures not yet before the Law to Believers so far as they were in the New Covenant For as the thing signified cometh so that which signifieth it passeth away though that was a mixed state wherein God gave a taste of both Covenants before his perfect dispensing or bringing forth of either Qu. 3. If the whole dispensation of the Law was given to the Jews and not to the Gentiles and so the Gentiles not bound to that Law but another way for them to know the mind of God Then whether that Law cited Rom 2 15. which the Gentiles shewed the work of in their hearts be another Law contrary to that Law that was given to the Jews even the ten Commandments Ans. The Law which is the substance is not contrary to the Law which is the shadow but is the comprehending and fulfilling of it The Law in the Spirit written by God's power and presence in the heart and mind is not contrary to the Law in the letter but is an higher and more glorious Ministration of it The one commandment which God gave by Moses to the Jews Deut. 30.11 which was the commandment of life and death as relating to their inward and eternal state ver. 15. was not contrary to the ten commandments which God had commanded them before by another covenant which he had made vvith them as an outward people and which was to be their Rule as to their outward state for they were chosen by God to be an holy people outwardly and so an outward Rule

in him who is the rest And as touching signs I do not say that signs are so done away as that there is now no good use to be made of them but in reading the law and shadows thereof the Lord may please by his Spirit to enlighten the Spirit of him who reads in his fear to see through them but this I do not find that so much as any one sign or shadow under the law was to be continued in that way of service under the Gospel for indeed to what end should it When that is come which it signified is not its work at an end and that that Sabbath was given for a sign as well as any other Sabbaths of the Law I find expresly Exod. 31.13 to 18. Object 4. It is said That though Christ's law be a new law yet it is also old given of old to the Jews Answ. Yea it is older then so for it was written in Abels and the other holy mens hearts long before this Covenant of the Law in writing was made with the Jews And consider wel which is now to stand in the times of the Gospel the writing of the law by the Spirit in the hearts of believers as it was written by vertue of the promise before the law was given or the outward and visible writing under the Law which was done for the sake of and as a suitable dispensation for that outward people It was not thus from the beginning but after a long time for when God chose an outward people he chose also this way of writing to signifie somewhat by which signification is concerning another state in which state that which was signified is to be set up and advanced and not the shadows which were significant of it It is further said that the Lord writes these things new in his peoples hearts to know the Lord as their God and as the God and Father of Jesus Christ and as their Father in him and to love their brethren as Christ loved them And he writes this law also in their hearts Thou shalt have no other Gods but me make no Image exalt my name keep holy the Sabbath c. Ans. If God write these things in the heart are they not to be read there If God write them in the new Covenant and in the new Tables shal not I read them there And if I can read there in this living book what God writes in it by his Spirit is not this nearer to me and clearer and read by a more certain eye then what I can read with my outward eye in Tables of stone Oh do not turn the believer out of his way do not hinder him from reading in the book which is clear and infallible the clear and infallible things of God Will God write in my heart and will he not give me an eye to read Shall he give me an eye to read and shall I not read therewith Thou hast here confessed this to be the new writing and the new writing belongs to the new Covenant both which are proper to the Gospel-state and to Christs meditation who is Mediatour of the new Covenant Heb. 8.6 And in that he saith a new he hath made the first old Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away ver. 13. Object 5. It is said that Love being the sum and substance of the law of the Spirit makes no more against the fourth Commandement then against the rest Ans. Love is the substance of them all they are all fulfilled in it but they are not after this manner fulfilled to wit that a man should strive perticularly to keep them in his eye and so labour to fulfill them in love but rather thus in waiting on the Lord to receive love from him and to be kept by him in the love in this love received they are all fulfilled and cannot be broken and this is an easie yoke This is the new birth and the path thereof the other is but the old creature with its striving after the path and inheritance of life And as this love is the fulfilling of the law so the heart are the Tables of this love wherein God writeth both the whole and all the parts of his Law Now I am not against any man who in singleness of heart applies himself to the letter but it is but the old way and a conversing with Christ after the manner of Moses's his dispensation but I must confess that I am for the new Covenant and for the ministry of the Spirit which is far beyond the letter and though I have known Christ and the Lavvs of his life after the flesh yet henceforth my desire is not after knowing him so any more but to know him in the eternall life of his Spirit and to drink of the fruit of the Vine new vvith him in his Fathers Kingdome A brief explication of the mistery of the Six Days labour and Seventh Days Sabbath for such to behold the eye of whose Spirit is opened by the pure anointing and who are not so drowned in their conceivings and reasonings about the sence of the letter as most of the professors of this age are Mat. 11.28 29 30. Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest Take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls For my yoke is easie and my burden is light He that hears the joyfull sound of the everliving power calling him by the voice of his eternall light out of the darkness out of the death out of the misery out of the Dominions Territories and deep slavery of Satan unto himself and cometh unto him in the vertue and power of that life which calleth he hath a tast given him of the eternall rest and a promise of entring into it But the entrance into the fulness thereof is not presently but he hath a long journey to take from Egypt the dark land from Sodom the filthy land from Babilon where all the vessells and holy things of God have been defiled through the wilderness unto Canaan and many battles are to be fought with enemies by the way also with the enemies which possess the holy land and many hardships to be undergone in following the Captain who also leadeth his Israel by a pillar of cloud by day and by a pillar of fire by night and there must be a circumcision a baptism in the cloud in the Sea and the falling of all those carcasses in the wilderness which are not to enter nor so much as see the good land before the entrance be ministred to the seed and to that which passeth through the water and through the fire with the seed In plain terms there must be a taking up of the yoke and a learning of Christ under the yoke till the proud the stiff the stubborn the wise the wilful the selfish Spirit