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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54072	To the Jews natural, and to the Jews spiritual with a few words ro [sic] England my native country, &c. : some sensible, weighty queries, concerning some things very sweet and necessary to be experienced in the truly-Christian state : whereunto is added a postscript, containing some queries on Isa. 50, 10, 11 ... / by Isaac Penington.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1677 (1677)	Wing P1214; ESTC R36966	28,679	73

And when this Ensign is more fully lifted up shall not the Gentiles more abundantly come unto God from the Ends of the Earth and bewail their dead and estranged Estate from God saying Surely our Fathers inherited Vanity and things wherein is no Profit Jer. 16·19 And shall they not turn from all their Idols to serve the living God Thes 1.9 And concerning the Messiah it vvas promised that in his Name should the Gentiles trust and the Isles should vvait for his lavv and he should bring forth Judgment to the Gentiles Isa 42.11 vvith Mat. 12.21 But vvhat should I mention any more Scriptures unto you concerning this thing vvhenas ye have so large full certain and daily Experience of it in that vvhich is pure and living of God which never deceived nor can deceive any for ye are begotten by his Spirit into his own Image and Nature and have received the Spirit of Adoption where●n ye cry Abba Father to the Father of Spirits He found you indeed in a strange land under great Captivity and Alienation ftom him Ye have been in Egypt in Sodom in Babylon spiritually But the mercy of the Lord hath followed you thither and the Arm of the Lord hath reached to you there and hath cut Rahab and wounded the Dragon Yea he whom the Lord hath given for a Light to the Gentiles hath shined to you there in the midst of your Darkness So that God sent among you the Prophet like unto Moses though far above Moses and hearing him he led you out of Egypt and by the Rod of his Power did Signs and Wonders and valiant Acts there breaking that Power which with a strong Hand held you captive there and oppressed you And ye have known the Travel Trials and Temptations in the spiritual Wilderness and the falling of the carcases which were to fall there and the holy leading by the Pillar of Cloud and Fire through all the Entanglements and Dangers therein Yea and the faithful among you the tried and prepared among you have passed over Jordan the River of pure Judgment into the good Land and come to witness David and Solomon who are one in Spirit your King who rules in Righteousnes and ministers to you Peace everlasting And ye have an High-Priest there not after the Order of Aaron but after the Order of Melchizedeck who is made the Everlasting High-Priest of God not after the Law of a Carnal Commandment but after the Power of an Endless Life whose lips preserve the knowledge of the law for you in that endless power of Life who ministers for you to you in that endless Power and intercedes with Power and Efficacy and sprinkles the Blood of the Covenant upon you vvhich takes avvay sin from your Hearts Consciences So that ye knovv the invvard Jew's state the invvard Holy Land and Kingdom the inward Circumcision before ye enter into that Land and the inward Lamb the inward Passeover the inward Mount Zion and Jerusalem the inward Sacrifices and Incense the inward Tabernacle Temple and Ark of the Covenant the inward Table of Shew-Bread the inward Manna the inward Rod that buddeth the inward Candlestick and the Lamps which are never to go out in God's Temple And what should I say more All that that people were to be outwardly in an outvvard VVay and State hath God made you invvardly in the Substance And what God would have been to them outvvardly had they obeyed his Voice and kept his Statutes and Judgments that he is to you invvardly vvho are the called and chosen and faithful Followers of the Lamb And ye are the enjoyers of their B●essings and Promises inwardly O the glory of your State to the Eye that is opened to see it Now somewhat doth remain on my Heart unto you O be daily sensible of the tender Goodness and Mercy of the Lord which is broke forth among you What Mercy what Love hath the Father shewn unto you that ye should be thus accounted the Children of God! that they which were once nigh should be removed so far off and ye whi●h were so far off should be brought so nigh and should forever inherit the sure mercies of David For of a Truth the Lord will never forsake you but his mercy endures forever towards you and your Stakes shall never be removed but this inward Building shall stand forever This Zion is the Place of God's Rest where he will dwell forever whereof the outward Zion was but a Figure 2 dly Remember what the Lord promised himself concerning you When he vvas vveary of that people and continually complaining of them O vvhat did he promise himself concerning the People he vvould bring forth by the Spirit and Povver of the Messiah in the latter Dayes Did he not promise himself that they should be an holy People an invvardly circumcised people a People that should please him Sheep that should hear the Shepherd's Voice and be healed by him gathered home to him and so follovv and learn of him the Shepherd that they should all know him from the least to the greatest and that he would forgive their Sins and heal their Backslidings and they should not return to Folly or backslide any more as the Children after the Flesh alwayes did Is not this the People whom indeed God hath formed for himself who shall shew forth his praise 3 dly Remember what a Covenant God hath prepared to make with you as ye incline your Ears to him and are led by him into the holy agreement with him even a Cevenant which is not weak as the old Covenant vvas but is full of Virtue and Vigour to enable you to do whatever God requires of you Mark what it contains Putting God's Fear into you Not the Fear which is taught by man's precepts vvhich man may get into hi● carnal mind but vvhich God places as the Trasury of Life in the Heart as it is vvritten The Fear of the Lord is his Treasure Isa 33.6 And O vvho knovvs the preciousness of this Treasure Hovv it cleanseth the Heart and keepeth it clean and will not suffer the mind that is seasoned with it and kept to it to depart from the living God! It fenceth from Unbelief it fenceth from Disobedience it will not suffer the Soul so much as to meddle with any Appearance of Evil. O precious glorious blessed Treasure Happy is the man● that feareth alwayes with this Fear Another precious thing this Covenant contains is The Law written in the Heart that it shall be as near yea nearer then sin is in the Heart that is made tender and hath the Law of the Spirit of Life written in it Who knows what it is to have the Law of Love the Law of Life the Law of the Spirit the Law of Faith the Law of new Obedience livingly written by God in his Heart Surely none can but they in whom God writes it And such cannot but desire to have it written in their Hearts by his blessed

Mercy and tender Bowels to those which pan●●● after and waited for his Salvation And the healing Virtue from under the VVings of the Saviour and the holy Anointing hath dropped upon the Eyes of the blind the pu●e Eye-salve and they have been opened and the Ears of the deaf by the Voice of the Son of God have been unstopped and the inwardly and spiriually lame have leaped as an Hart and the Tongue which could not name God in Truth and Righteousness but hath been dumb before him and before men also could not but sing because of the breaking forth of the VVaters and Streams of Life upon the thirsty land and parched ground making them a pool and springs of water VVhich land which thus is changed from its wilderness and parched state into an holy fresh and living state the Dragons do not lodge in nor is it any more an Habitation or Cage for unclean noisom Birds as great professing Babylon the Mother of Harlots with all her fleshly professing-Daughters is but Life dwells there the holy one is in the midst of this land it brings forth the fruits of Life and Righteousness to the righteous holy one And here the King of Glory's High-way even the way of Holiness is known which none but those whom he makes holy can walk in Let men profess what they will yet being unclean in Heart and Coversation they cannot pass over to come into this Way but the holy they which are made holy by God and keep to live in and follow that which is holy though way faring men and though otherwise Fools yet they shall not err here but be preserved by the holy Power in the holy way which is prepared and cast up for these And as for that which would tear and destroy it shall not be found on all that holy Mountain where these live and feed Yea here is the House of God and Throne of God and God the Judge of all and Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant and the Blood of sprinkling where the ransomed of the Lord enjoy the Presence of the Bridegroom whom God hath set King and who reigns on his holy Hill of inward and spiritual Zion and causeth them to sing who feel him reign even the everlasting Seed of Life to reign inwardly in the Heart Oh everlasting Joy is upon their Heads they have obtained Joy and Gladness and Sorrow and Sighing flees away when the Joy unspeakable and full of Glory is felt springing in the Heart from the Sense of the Presence and Enjoyment of the Bridegroom for of a Truth the Lord hath comforted Zion yea he hath comforted many of her waste places he was angry with her Daughters before their filth was purged away by the Spirit ●udgment and Burning since that time his Anger hath been turned away and he hath comforted them Isa 12.1 c. and he hath made her Wilderness in many hear●s like Eden and her Desert like the Garden of the Lord even like the Garden that he waters and how can Joy and Gladness but be found here with Thanksgiving and the Voice of Melody Isa 58.11 chap. 51.3 Thus it is with such of the gathered People and Nation of the Lord that hearken and give ear to him and have known the Law of Life to proceed out of his Mouth and his Judgment to rest for a Light ver 4. THE END THE CONTENTS First A Preface concerning God's visiting and appearing to his distressed People in this and other Nations II. Somewhat in the Love of God to the Iews Natural p. 1. III. Somewhat in the same Love to the Iews Spiritual p. 16. IV. A few Words to England my Native Country p. 31. V. Three Queries on three Verses of Psalm 46. p. 36. VI. Some Questions answered concerning the true Church Ministry Maintenance under the Gospel p. 39. VII Some Questions answered touching the Lamb's War p. 45. VIII The Conclusion containing some precious Scriptures concerning Christ's inward Appearance and his powerful Working against his Enemies and in and for his People with some few Words added thereupon