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A54028 Concerning the sum or substance of our religion, who are called Quakers, and the exercises and travels of our spirits therein Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679. 1667 (1667) Wing P1158; ESTC R18265 13,091 18

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wait for after they once come to the sensible knowledge and experience of these two to feel the Flesh brought down the lusts of it denied the Judgments of the Lord administred to it that so the other may come up to live thrive and prevail in the Soul and so the Soul witness Salvation and Redemption under its shadow Thus Sion is Redeemed with Judgment and her Converts with Righteousness Isa 1.27 What is Sion Is it not the holy hill of God whereon his Son is set King to reign whereon the holy City is to be built and God to be worshipped in Spirit what condition is Sion in when God visits her to redeem her Is she not laid wast desolate lying in the dust as Psal 102.13 14. Well how will God redeem her Zion shall be redeemed with Judgment and her Converts with Righteousness By bringing Judgments upon that which keeps her under upon her Enemies the contrary Seed God redeems her and by bringing forth Righteousness the righteous Life and Spirit of his own Son in those whose minds are turned to her whose faces are set Sion-ward thus God redeems her Converts Yes yes it is truly felt and witnessed The living Righteousness of Christ revealed in the heart and having power there sets free from all the unrighteousness which was there before And then when the unrighteous one is cast out and the righteous one revealed and the Soul united to him and receives vertue and power from him then he becomes a Servant of righteousness and doth not commit sin but doth righteousness and he that doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous 1 Joh. 3.7 For how can it be otherwise when the righteous Life is revealed and brought up into dominion in him How can the same righteous Spirit and Life revealed in the members as was in the head bu● live and act after the same manner in the members as it did in the head O that men were turned to that which would give them the certain knowledge and sensible experience of this Now this is exceeding comfortable and precious to them that are in the true travel towards it much more to them that enjoy it This is the sum of all even to know and experience what is to be brought down into death and kept in death what to be brought up out of the grave to live to God and reign in his dominion and what to be kept in subjection and obedience to him who is to reign Now to experience it thus done in the heart the Flesh brought down the Seed of Life raised and the Soul subject to the pure heavenly Power whose right it is to reign in the heart in and by the Seed this is a blessed state indeed For here the work is done here the Throne of God is exalted and his King reigns in righteousness and peace and all his Enemies are under his feet and this Soul this true Israelite this redeemed one may wear the white Robe and serve God in righteousness and holiness without fear of his Enemies keeping in and to the Covenant which ministers Life and Power abundantly all the dayes of his life For that was to be the outward state of the outward Israel keeping to God in the outward Covenant and it is to be the inward state of the inward Israel keeping to God in the inward Covenant which is a pure Covenant of Life and Peace of all inward and spiritual blessigs and mercies in Christ wherewith the Souls are blessed that are obedient to God and walk humbly with him in this Covenant And I beseech you to consider O tender people who are grieved because of sin and corruption in your hearts and would fain witness victory and dominion over it in the Name and Strength of the Lord Jesus Christ Whom did that Prophesie of Zachary Luke 1.71 72 74 75. concern What was that holy Covenant who were to be so redeemed who were the Israel that was to inherit this promise All the Promises are yea and amen in Christ to the Israel of God Why should not the Israel of God hope to enjoy this even so to be acquainted with Gods holy Spirit and to wait upon him that they may witness it granted to them that they being delivered out of the hands of their Enemies might serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him whose eyes are piercing and can behold no iniquity all the dayes of their lives Surely they who witness that promise mentioned Isa 35.8 fulfilled to them cannot fall short of this And truly the Children of the new Covenant can never come throughly to live to God till they witness the inward circumcision of the heart so as to love the Lord with all the heart and soul Deut. 30.6 Now where it is so the Devil or Lust can find no place of entrance and how then should they be able to sow their Seed and bring forth sin Out of the evil heart proceeds all evil but out of that heart which is throughly circumcised to love the Lord God wholly evil cannot proceed If Lust be not conceived it cannot bring forth Sin and where the womb which conceived it is kept dry and barren it cannot conceive again And is not this the Promise of the Gospel that the womb which was once barren shall be very fruitfull and bear abundantly but the other grow feeble and be able to bear no more O that people had experience of Gods power and did believe therein what should stand in the way of it It was Israels sin of old when they looked at their Enemies and saw their footing and strength in the Land which God had promised to Abrahams Seed for an Inheritance they could not believe that they could be overcome O take heed of the same unbelief now Concerning Christ coming to the Father by him receiving him walking in him not in the oldness of the letter but in the newness of the Spirit and concerning reading the Scriptures aright I am the Way the Truth and the Life no man cometh unto the Father but by me saith Christ Joh. 14.6 MAn in the corrupt degenerate estate is fallen from God hath lost his Image the holy heavenly Image of the Father of Spirits is driven out from his presence dwells in the Land of darkness and confusion under the Government of the Prince of the power of the Air who rules in and hath power over all the Children of Disobedience Now this should be mans work even to return to the Father to come back out of the prodigal lost state to the Fathers house where there is sufficiency and fulness of true Bread and Water of Life to satisfie every hungry and thirsty Soul The Way whereby a man must come the Truth wherein he must be renewed the Life wherewith a man must be quickned is Christ the Son of the living God and he must know him as the Son of the living God and feel him revealed in him and received by him