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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90402	A voyce out of the thick darkness: containing in it a few words to Christians, about the late and present posture of spiritual affairs among them. Together with a post-script about darkening the counsel of God. As also, certain Scripture-prophecies concerning some transactions in the latter times. / By Isaac Penington, (junior) Esq;.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1650 (1650)	Wing P1217; Thomason E597_7; ESTC R203131	40,524	63

a cup of astonishment a cup of trembling a cup of confusion of sleep of death all which Jerusalem tastes in it when she drinks of it And Jerusalem cannot chuse whether she will dri●k the cup or no but must drink it which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord God stands like a mother that holds a potion of physick in her hand and will make her child take it though sore against the childs mind Yea some mothers will make their children drink the very thick of the potion the bottom of the cup And poor Jerusalem must drink the very dregs too if God will have it so O how sweet is God in building up how terrible in throwing down How pleasant how quickening is the cup of his love how dreadful how destroying is the cup of his wrath There is none can so much as imagine the power of his wrath that have not tasted the power of his love If Christ and his people had not felt and known so much sweetness in the Love and Life of God they could never have found so much bitterness in the cup of his indignation in that cup of death which he prepares to put an end to that kind of life The people of God must lose that very life that Christ lost by that very cup We must all taste of his Baptism O how sweet is that life in its season how pleasant is it to thrive and grow in it Communion with God The mutual opening of hearts one to another The continual meeting every where in everything in one and the same Spirit is very ravishing and transporting But to have this pass away or if the the life of be too strong so to do to have it killed by power by a cup of deadly poyson is so sharp and terrible that the pangs of dissolving the body are hardly worthy to be a shadow of it Yet if any have a desire before-hand to conceive what it is such as have tasted of the spiritual pleasure of this kind of life may give some guess at it This drink is the Wo God administers to expel the former drunkenness by This wine whoever is throughly made drunk with will quickly find all his former beauty and spiritual glory stained and his nakedness uncovered by it ISAI. 43. Vers 8. 21. Bring forth the blind people that have eyes and the deaf that have ears This people have I formed for my self they shall shew forth my praise This is the Issue the Result of all to Ephraim though little expected by him God liked not his beauty therefore stained it with his vomiting by the force of a new kind of wine But while Ephraim was drunk had lost his eyes and his ears could see nothing of God could hear nothing of God God was forming him anew and after he hath layn long enough in the grave for his former shape quite to rot and waste away he must be brought forth anew to the praise of him that formed him This people have I formed my self You thought I was destroying this people and perhaps they themselves because of what they felt thought so too They were become the blackest people under Heaven upon whom the blackness of darkness seemed to have seized for ever And indeed I was destroying that fleshly shape and Image of holiness wherein they formerly appeared and which their spirits too much doted upon this was I resolved to lay in the dust and not leave the least reliques of it They were the most deformed people too without eyes without ears could hear or see nothing of the greatest danger nothing of the greatest good but all good passes by them and every snare takes hold of them Thus did I deal with them thus did I undo them but withall I was forming them anew I was not only destroying the old form as men thought and they thought but I was likewise introducing a new form and that a very excellent one one for mine own self not to serve my design upon as allshapes I have hitherto cast my people in have been but for my self to possess enjoy and please my self in for ever These desolate spirits have I built into such a Tabernacle into such a Temple as shall never be pulled down again but here will I dwell for ever this is the true place of my rest these vessels shall indeed hold all my glory This fabrick shall be so perfect so fair so full of lasting beauty that all that behold it shall not chuse but praise the skill of the workman who hath prepared so fit an habitation for his own Spirit and so perfect glory pleasure and content for his own habitation Then shall the blind see and the deaf hear when those that now see and hear may be made blind and deaf When the new eye and the new ear is brought forth in new-made Israel the old eye and the old ear in old Israel will be out of request Amen saith my spirit within me Let old things pass away and all things become new Let the Scheam of this present world both outward and inward pass away and a new Scheam of both be brought forth A new light a new eye a new sound of things a new ear to hear that sound a new discovery of God a new mind to receive that discovery into a new Heaven a new Earth and new Inhabitants for both a new Worship new Worshippers new wine new bottles all new and he that is perfectly weary of the old cannot but say Amen with me Amen Halelu-jah Cursed be all the idol gods of the Heathen but blessed be the living God for evermore He shall be God indeed that doth these things Lo this is our God we have waited for him and he will save us and we will be glad and rejoyce in his Salvation Amen Halelu-jah Be not offended We must tune our Harps to the new Song when once we taste of the cup of this new Salvation ISAI. 65. Vers 13 14 15. Therefore thus saith the Lord God Behold my servants shall eat but ye shall be hungry behold my servants shall drink but ye shall be thirsty behold my servants shall rejoyce but ye shall be ashamed Behold my servants shall sing for joy of heart but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart and shall howl for vexation of spirit And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen for the Lord God shall slay thee and call his servants by another name O doleful O Joyful weeping wailing gnashing of teeth in some joy unspeakable in others The Prodigal shall be welcomed home with the fatted calf with mirth musick dancing which his other brother through grief and anguish of spirit cannot partake of nay perhaps it may prove the will of the father not to admit him to this feast which he makes to welcom home the unthrift He will fill the hungry with good things but the rich will he send empty away Yea the Lord God will slay thee Thou hast a name now that thou livest though thou art dead but the Lord will kill that appearance of life in thee wherewith now thou flourishest and cast thy name out for dead That name thou now hast shall rot and dye and be no more accounted for a living name He will call his people no more after that name but he will have a new name which the Mouth of the Lord shall name to write in the foreheads of his servants and to call them by ISAI. 35. Vers 5 6 7. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped Then shall the lame man leap as an Hart and the tongue of the dumb sing for in the Wilderness shall waters break out and streams in the Desart And the parched ground shall become a pool and the thirsty land springs of water Then the Wilderness shall become a fruitful field and the fruitful field shall be counted for a Forrest Chap. 32. 15. And there will be great joy and singing among the blind the deaf the lame and the dumb when they shall all be perfectly healed when the barren parched ground shal abound with that water which it thirsted after and grew so heartless and barren for want of EZEK. 17. Vers 22 23 24. Thus saith the Lord God I will also take of the highest branch of the high Cedar and will set it I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one and will plant it upon an high Mountain and eminent In the Mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it and it shall bring forth boughs and bear fruit and be a goodly Cedar and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree have exalted the low tree have dryed up the green tree and have made the dry tree to flourish I the Lord have spoken and have done it Then said I When when O Lord God how long Thou hast a long time holden thy peace Awake awake put on strength O Arm of the Lord Uncloath thine Arm of flesh and cloath it with strength if thou meanest to do these things Sleep no longer under the vail of flesh but rent it from the top to the bottom and come forth in thine own likeness and so soon as we see this in this Equipage we will sing and shout Hosanna in the highest Blessed be he who is and was and is no longer a coming but come Even so Amen FINIS