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life_n	drink_v	flesh_n	meat_n	7,615	5	9.1083	5	false

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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

fresh Life in him My flesh is Meat indeed and my ●loud is Drink indeed He that eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Bloud dwelleth in me and ●in him Joh. 6.55.56 We are of his Flesh and of his Bone said they that did eat his Flesh and drink his Bloud They that eat Christ the one bread are by that Food made partakers of his divine nature and become one bread for we being many are one bread as said the Apostle so that now they are no longer darkness but Light in the Lord. O the pure flesh and bloud of the immaculate Lamb O the incorruptible food which gives Life to the Soul O the living word O the milk of this word the Milk of the heavenly breast which nourisheth the babes but the bread the flesh the Bloud is stronger nourishment O how brightly might this be opened in the demonstration of Life to the spiritual ear and understanding but the carnal-minded are thick and gross being drowned in their own apprehensions and sense of the letter but having no sense of the mystery what it is mystically to Eat and Drink the Flesh and Bloud of Christ of him who is Life and gives Life and to dwell together with him in the one Spirit Light Life and Power eternal For with thee is the Fountain of Life in thy Light shall we see Light Psal 36.9 Oh blessed are they that can experimentally speak thus who know the Fountain of Life and dwell there where Light Shines more and more Ho every one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and he that hath no money come ye buy and Eat yea come buy Wine and Milk without money and without price Wherefore do ye spend Money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not hearken diligently unto me and Eat ye that which is good and let your soul delight it self in fatness Incline your ear and come unto me hear and your soul shall live and I will make an everlasting Covenant with you even the sure mercies of David Isa 55.1 2 3. Here 's happiness true happiness full happiness He that experiences this one portion of Scripture is happy He that knows the true thirst after the true waters and comes to the waters which he thirsts after and knows how to buy and hath bought the Wine and Milk which is to be had at the waters Oh who knows what this buying is This is beyond all talk and outward profession concerning he thing concerning the precious pearl this is the real hearty trafficking of the wise Merchant for it And then to hearken diligently and eat that which is good and to have the soul delight it self in the fatness of God's House in the riches and fatness of his Goodness and Mercy in Christ Jesus and not only to taste of Mercy but to witness it sure in the everlasting Covenant that God will never be wroth with me more never be a stranger to me more never depart from me more nor suffer me to depart from him but preserve me pure and chast to him through his love shed abroad in my heart and his holy fear which constrains me to abide with him and to keep his Commandments But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a Well of Water springing up into everlasting Life Joh. 4.14 Is not this an universal Promise to be made good to every one that drinks of the water of Life of the water that Christ gives Did not Christ promise it should be a Well a springing Well The Fountain is of a springing nature and is not every drop of the same nature of a living nature of a springing nature He that rightly drinks doth he not receive a Well O the Water which Christ giveth doth it not become a Well in the true disciple in the living disciple out of which Well the Water is still springing and flowing to nourish up with Life and unto Life even with Life of an everlasting nature and unto Life everlasting O the pure glory that is revealed in the Gospel-dispensation why is it so hid from mens eyes who profess themselves to know the Lord Jesus Christ and to be his disciples For the Life was manifested and we have seen it and bear witness and shew unto you that eternal Life which was with the Father and was manifested unto us That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ 1 J h. 1. v. 2 3. This is precious to experience the Life inwardly manifested and to come out of death inwardly felt into Life inwardly manifested and so to come into the holy fellowship with the Father and Son and with the Saints in Light for he that comes out of the darkness into the Light comes out of the Fellowship of the dead into the Fellowship of the Living 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 easy and my Burthen is light Mat. 11.28 29 30. This invitation of Christ was to be fulfilled in the hearts of his disciples it is precious inwardly to witness it effectually in the heart as really as ever it was spoken by him To be able to say in the evidence and demonstration of his Spirit It is true I did labour I was heavy-laden none could ease or help me till he called till he knocked at the door of my heart and till I came to him and received him in and he hath made good his word to my soul he hath given me rest from my labours and heavy Loads He hath laid his Yoke upon me and I have took it and born it and have learned of him to be meek and lowly in heart like him and I have found rest to my Soul And now I shall never complain more of his yoke or burthen he hath made it and doth daily make it so easy and light to me And we know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ This is the true God and eternal Life 1 Joh. 5.20 There is an inward spiritual coming of the Son of God into the heart by which Coming to them that receive him he giveth a new and Spiritual understanding whereby they know him that is true and without it they cannot and are ingraffed into him a d found in him partaking of his Life and righteousness to the glory of God the Father and so in true understanding are able to say Lo this is the God this is the Saviour we waited for This is the true

Resurrection and the Life enters the King of Righteousness the King of Peace enters he who is the Wisdom and Power of God enters and what becomes of the Power and Goods of the enemy then Doth he not kill and destroy them doth he not consume and devour them Doth he not empty the House of them and garnish the house with that which is truly pure glorious and beautiful Lastly what is it to have him sup with the soul and what is it for the Soul to sup with him Is not here eating and drinking in his Fathers Kingdom Doth he not first destroy the Devils Kingdom and then set up his own Kingdom and doth he not feast with the soul and feast the Soul in the Kingdom which he sets up there O that all men knew how near he who is eternal Life is to them Doth not God search the heart Is not he near the heart doth not his Light shine there in the midst of mans darkness and corruption doth not his Power reach thither and assault and trouble the enemy doth not his pure Love wherewith he loveth man pierce thither Doth he not knock doth he not call Doth he not touch doth he not draw doth he not give at times some living tender sense to many hearts who too much neglect and despise him and regard not the day of his tender visiting them and calling after them O how is the Love of God the Spirit of God the Life of God the Wisdom of God the Power of God the drawings and instructions of his Grace day by day resisted by the Wisdom and Will of the flesh in those that are born thereof and hearken thereto and so live after the flesh and not after that which reproves the flesh Many more Scriptures might be mentioned and also sensibly and livingly witnessed to but these are enough to give a taste The Lord open mens understandings into the thing it self and give them the key which opens into the truth even into the mystery thereof wherein is the hidden Life and Vertue Amen A few words Concerning the true Christ how it may be certainly and infallibly know which is he This Question relates not to his outward appearance in the dayes of his flesh but to his inward and spiritual appearance how it may be known To which the Answer on my heart is Even after the same way and by the same means is he to be known in his inward appearance as he was known in his outward which was by the revealing of the Father For none knows the Son but the Father and he to whom the Father reveals him And when Simon Peter confessed him to be Christ the Son of the living God Blessed said he art thou Simon Bar-Jona for flesh and bloud hath not revealed it unto thee but my Father which is in Heaven Mat. 16. vers 16 17. And if none could know Christ in his appearance in flesh notwithstanding so many manifest and express Prophesie concerning him but such only to whom the Father revealed him how shall any know his inward and spiritual appearance unless they be taught of the Father and hear and learn of him so to do But more particularly to shew how the Father revealed his Son and how they came to know in that day that he was the Son of the living God the holy one the anointed Saviour and that the same way and by the same means people than will truly know him must come to the knowledg of him now First They came to know him by the manifestation of the Life that was in him by the fulness of the Grace and Truth which dwelt in him and put it self forth so as to be discerned by the inward and spiritual eye in them For the Life was manifested 1 Joh. 1.2 The Life which was in him was manifested to the Spiritual eye which was in them and thus they came to know him Secondly By his voice and knocks Thus said he concerning his sheep in those days that they know his voice Joh. 10.4 Oh he hath such a voice as none hath but he He speaks in his Father's authority not as the Scribes not as earthly wise learned men he speaks in the evidence and demonstration of God's Spirit The words which he speaks are Spirit and Life They that hear his voice live And when he stands at the door and knocks he pierceth deep O the beatings of his hand upon the render and sensible hearts and consciences O his secret reproofs his secret instructions his secret quicknings and enlightenings how did they and how do they eternally make him manifest in the hearts and consciences of his Thirdly By his Baptism or by his baptizing into his own Spirit and Power While people were in expectation and mused in their hearts of John whether he were the Christ or not John answers the case and tells them how they might discern and know the true Christ It is not I who baptize with water but he that baptizeth with the Holy Ghost and with fire whose fan is in his hand c. Luk. 3.15 16.17 Was not this then and is not this now the way to know the true Christ He that knoweth him who inwardly and spiritually baptizeth him who hath the fan who inwardly fanneth and purgeth the Floor gathering in the Wheat and burning up the chaff doth not he inwardly truly and Spiritually know Christ He that knoweth the Word which is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of Soul Spirit of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart doth not he know the word which was in the beginning which was with God yea which was God for he is the only searcher of the heart and trier of the reins Fourthly By his mighty works The works which the Father hath given me to finish the same works that I do bear witness of me that the Father hath sent me Joh. 5.36 And when John sent two of his disciples to Jesus with this question Art thou he that should come or look we for another Christ bids them go and tel John what things they had seen and heard how that the Blind see the Lame walk the Lepers are Cleansed the Deaf hear the Dead are raised to the poor the Gospel is Preached and blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me Luke 7.22 23. Why herein is a marvelous thing said the blind man that ye know not from whence he is and yet he hath opened my eyes Joh. 9.30 He who hath the power and putteth forth the power inwardly who openeth the inward eye the inward ear looseth the inward tongue causeth the inward feet to walk in the way of Life and the inward hands to work the works of God he is the Messiah the Saviour the word of Life the Son of the Living God They that believe in him in his Spirit in his Power in his inward appearance

Is the Wall of partition broken down in thee is there of twain made one new man Dost thou feel that which is contrary to Christ subdued in thee by his power and his holy nature Life and Spirit reigning over it Canst thou read that Scripture sensibly and experimentially If ye through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body ye shall live Ah how miserably do men talk of Christ the Power of God and miss of the effect and work of his Power in them Faith is a powerful thing it gives victory true Faith gives victory it scatters that which stands between and gives real access to God and lets in his pure fresh living Vertue upon the heart Love is a powerful thing it constrains to Obedience and the heart that is circumcised to love the Lord God O how doth Life flow from him into it O away with empty notions and come to the ministration of the Spirit where the Knowledg is living the Faith victorious the Love pure and undefiled the Worship truly spiritual even flowing from and comprehended in the Life and Vertue of the Spirit O that all that truly breath after the Lord might be gathered hither found here and dwell here Amen A POST-SCRIPT To the Experiences PErsons that have had some true touches of Life and true breathings after the Lord yet not having their eye fixed rightly upon him nor discerning from whence those come may easily lose the true sense of Life and another birth of another nature spring up in them instead thereof This was it we generally wanted in the day of our former profession even the discerning of that and fixing upon that which begat Life in us through want whereof many of the most tender-hearted came to a loss whom the Lord at length shewed mercy to manifesting to them the Light of their eyes and the stay of their Souls Now to all that have been gathered hither by the Lord Life hath been renewed and their former experiences of the Lord and his goodness to them in the Lord Jesus Christ restored again with advantage And here they sensibly see and daily experience that nothing is of their own works but all of Grace and Mercy in and through Christ in whom they are created unto good works which God before ordained that we should walk in them And here the glory is revealed the glory of Life the glory o● Peace with the Lord the glory of R ghteousness in and through his Son he glory o● Victory over the S●●● enemies and of leading captivity cap● 〈◊〉 treading upon the Necks of Kings even of mighty lusts which mightily revailed over and oppressed the Soul before the Cap●ain of our Salvation appeared in the power and authority of his own Spirit But blessed be the Lord there is not only this Glory revealed but there is a defence over the Glory For there is that revealed which is able to defend it and doth defend it in the hearts of many and in the living assemblies which have been gathered by God's Holy Power which holy Power which gathered daily quickens and overshadows and is a rock unto and will be so for ever even to all that abide with him in his Holy Covenant but out of the limits of that into which God gathers and wherein and whereby he preserves there is no defence to any The cursed thing the unclean thing the earthly Spirit the earthly Mind and Wisdom the Lord hath excluded and it is to be excluded out of his camp for evermore that the inward Israel may be kept holy to the Lord and may serve and worship the Lord in the beauty of the inward holiness as the outward Israel was outwardly to be and to do in that outward ministration of the shadows of the Gospel-state Some Scriptures very sweet and necessary to be experienced in the Gospel-State This is Life eternal that they might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent Joh. 17.3 There is a knowledg of God and Christ which is Life eternal and there is a knowledg of them or at least that which man call so which is not Life eternal The knowledg which is Life Eternal is that knowledg which God gives to his own birth even the spiritual knowledg which God gives to those which are born of the Spirit which is the knowledg of the mystery of God and of Christ in the mistery inwardly appearing and working in the heart against the mystery of Sin and death O precious is the birth to which God gives this this knowledg and precious is the knowledg which he giveth to it The knowledg or that which Men call knowledg which is not life eternal is that knowledg which man can get and comprehend from without of himself without the enlightnings and quicknings of God's Holy Spirit and Power inwardly felt and operating in the heart No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost 1 Cor. 12.3 It is precious to witness that confessing and acknowledging Jesus to be the Lord which is by the Holy Ghost For only they that are governed by the Holy Ghost can so confess him The Devil did confess Jesus to be the holy one the Son of the living God c. and many now confess Jesus to be Lord in the same Spirit being alienated from the Life of God and having no true sense or understanding of that But there is a confession which cannot arise but from God's Spirit and from the knowledg sense and understanding which he gives blessed are they that experience that It is written in the prophets and they shall be all taught of God Every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me Joh. 6.45 Ah blessed is he that can in time understanding say The Lord hath made good this Pr●●se to me He is become my Teacher I have heard his voice as truly and certainly inwardly in my heart as ever I heard the voice of Satan here He hath revealed his Son his pure holy living Child Jesus in me He hath drawn me to his Son he hath taught me to come to his Son and indeed so soon as ever I heard and learned of the Father I could not but come to the Son and receive the Son and and give up my self to him and he hath received me and daily preserveth me from death and the sting and power thereof and giveth unto me Eternal L fe He that hath the Son hath Life and he that hath not the Son hath not Life 1 Joh. 5.12 Ah this is abundantly experienced blessed be the name of the Lord Many who had not life while they had not the Son but mourned and lamented deeply after him the Spirit of the Lord being grieved in them and his life not possessed by them the Father revealing his Son in them and giving him to them and they enjoying and possessing him feel that they are daily in the enjoyment and possession of pure and