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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	lord_n	soul_n	wait_v	5,279	5	9.2073	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54065	Some things of great weight and concernment to all briefly opened, and held forth from a true sense and understanding, for the healing of the ruines and breaches, which the enemy of mankind hath made in mans souls, as 1. Some assertions concerning the principle and way of life, 2. Some further directions to Christ, the principle and fountain of life, 3. The end of Christ's manifestation, His Salvation, and whom He saves, 4. Three questions answered concerning justification, 5. Of the pure, constant, eternal, unchangeable nature of God's Truth / written in the time of my confinement in Alisbury when love was working in me, and the life of God in me travelling and wrestling with the Lord for the salvation of others, Isaac Penington.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1667 (1667)	Wing P1204; ESTC R14964	13,989	22

the Power of the Lord began the work so the same Power alone is able to go on with it and perfect it and it will go with it and perfect it upon the same terms it began and no other How were the terms at first but on a giving up of the soul in the faith to the Lord in the sense of his love and goodness and mercy touching and drawing and making willing And how is the standing but in the same giving up still in abiding with the Lord in hearkning to the voice of the Lord in waiting for the wisdom and counsel of the Lord But if any man draw back from this if he despise the Spirit and his motions and counsels and hearken to the voice of a contrary spirit believing and following it like the Angels that fell he departeth from his place and habitation which he had in the drawings life and power of God and is not to God what he was before nor is God to him what he was before but the Lord who loved him before and delighted in him to do him good hath now no pleasure in him he being turned from that which the Lord loveth and in which he hath determined and appointed to chuse love and own the children of men who as they are gathered thither are his children as they are gathered from thence into a contrary principle are the children of the wicked one And now what is of man in all this where is the man that can boast before the Lord who is thus saved He hath all from a Principle yea he is gathered into preserved in and abideth in this Principle by the Power goodness and mercy of the Lord. The Power begins the work in him the Power accompanies him the Power carries him through or he falls and miscarries There is no man can stand any longer here than he submits to and is upheld by the Power nor act nor suffer but as the Power acts in him and helps him to suffer Let the man that boasteth bring forth somewhat of his own if he can here Is the will at any time his own Doth not he that is spiritual and in the true sence always finde God to work in him to will when ever he willeth rightly and holily and if he cannot will of himself can he do any thing of himself can he beleive of himself pray of himself wait of himself resist enemies and temptations of himself nay so much as give a look to the Lord at any time of himself Indeed in the grace of the Lord and principle of his Life there is sufficiency and therein he that is joyned to the Lord and become one Spirit with him what can he not do here but that is as he is new-made in Christ and as Christ ariseth lives and acts in him which he that is in the true sence and feeling will still acknowledg not only in his words to men but in his heart and spirit before the Lord. Some further directions to Christ the Principle and Fountain of Life by way of Question and Answer Quest 1. VVHat is CHRIST Answ He is the Word of Eternal Life who is appointed of the Father to give life and who giveth life to them that receive him and obey his Gospel He is the Son of God the Wisdom of God the Power of God the Righteousness of God the Saviour and Salvation of God The peace the rest the joy the life of the soul The King the Priest the Prophet the Shepherd of the sheep The Way the Truth the Door the Vine the Olive-tree into which the living are gathered and engrafted And he is also an Hammer an Ax a Sword a Fire to the corrupt tree and fruit Quest 2. How is Christ known received and obeyed Ans As a seed as the seed of Life as the seed of the Kingdom as a Leaven as Salt as a little smal thing rising up in the heart against all that is great mighty As a branch out of a dry ground as a little child to lead which all the wisdom of man and flesh cannot but despise and therefore that must first be brought down in some measure in the heart before Christ can be owned in the heart and subiected to Quest 3. How is this Seed received Answ By feeling its vertues manifestations and operations in the heart and subjecting thereto Quest 4. What are its vertues manifestations and operations Answ They are all living and have all living and powerful effects upon the heart as they are let in They are all against darkness sin and death tending to discover it to turn the mind from it to lead out of the captivity power and reach of it and they are also all for God tending to prepare the heart for him and to bring it into union and covenant with him Quest 5. What is the first operation of the seed to the soul wherein it is to be waited for and closed with that the soul may come into the farther sence and feeling of it Answ It is according to the state of the soul which being in darkness sin and death it appears as a light to discover the darkness sin and death and to lead out of it to the redeeming power And then to them that thus receive it and wait upon it in the fear and humility which it gives and begets it appears as life quickning the soul and as power enabling it in some measure to live to God and to walk with him in the way to the Kingdom Quest 6. How comes this way to be hid from some that desire after the Lord and to know his Truth as it is in Jesus Answ From the subtilty of the enemy who blinds the eye which alone can see and stops the ear which alone can hear and hardens the heart which alone can understand and hath devices snares and baits and falle reasonings from Scriptures and from Experiences which any one that hearkens unto and is entangled and ensnared in is his captive and cannot be at liberty to see or know or embrace the Truth as it is but his heart is deceived about it and filled with prejudices against it Therefore such should wait for the true Circumcision that they might hearken to the Lord come out of the enemies snares and subtil devices and live 〈…〉 Isa 55. 1 2 3. Quest 7. But may not these be saved notwithstanding Ans There is no Salvation but in and by Christ Jesus and the Salvation is not to them that received a bite notion of him under the Law or another empty notion under the Profession of the Gospel but only to them that receive him as he was promised as the Holy Seed for in that alone is the Redemption freedom from sin and power of life felt and no where else So that he that hath not this knowledge of him hath not the true knowledg nor he that doth not so beleive in him doth not rightly beleive nor he that doth not so hope in him

against sin and ever will so be and in all its appearances testifieth against it and in love to the creature striveth with the creature to convince it of that in it which is contrary to God and to draw it to that strength and divine vertue which stoppeth it beateth it back and worketh it out of the mind and nature of the creature as it can get entrance and is harkned and subjected to For there is no Salvation but by the Cross and Yoke of our Lord Jesus Christ for in that is the power to crucifie the affections and lusts which lead into sin and death and will not cease to tempt and lead aside till the soul be gathered into unity with that and become subject to that which is contrary to them So that this is the main thing in Religion even to know Christ revealed in the soul as a Standard against corruption and to be gathered under his Banner which is the Cross or that living Principle in the heart which resisteth the corrupt principle and he that is gathered hither and continueth faithfully fighting here shall receive mercy help and strength from on high in every time of need 10. That the true and certain way of knowledg of the things of God is in the faith and obedience of this Principle It is not by reasoning considering things in the mind after the māner of men that a man comes to know spiritual things but they are spiritually revealed by God after a spiritual manner to the Believer to the Obeyer and they are revealed to him in his believing in his obeying in his waiting in his holy fearing in his distrusting of himself and feeling his own insufficiency either to attain them or retain them but as the Lord God makes them manifest in him and preserves him in the sense of them He that doth my Will shall know of my Doctrine saith Christ This is the way Wouldst thou know what God requires of thee what this or that is which appears in this or that sort as Truth whether it be so or no Mind this Principle in thee mind the pure the holy Light inward touches and leadings of this pure Divine Principle that will make manifest to thee whatever is fit for thee in thy present state to know and thou art not to desire more but as a child to rest contented with that proportion of knowledge and strength which the wise and tender Father judgeth fit for thee and as thy state groweth capable of more he will not fail to administer to thee And what he giveth thee is good seasonable and proper for thee which thou mayest safely feed upon and enjoy in the sense and fear of him But if thou press after what he would not as yet have thee know thou entrest into the will and wisdom of the flesh and there are the disputes discontents murmurings and ill tempers and dispositions of the mind which there will increase and grow upon thee to thy hurt 11. That the mind that is gathered here will find great opposition both within and without insomuch as he shall not easily pass from out of the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of the dear Son but through many tryals temptations oppositions and dangers many wayes for turning the back on the kingdom of darkness by joyning to the Principle of Life in hearkning and subjecting to the light thereof hereupon the powers of darkness both within and without bestir themselves to hinder the souls progress and to bring it back again into subjection under the will and wisdom of the flesh O how doth the will and wisdom strive within in a mans own bosome What risings of the Impure are felt against the Pure What secret and subtil reasonings to ensnare and entangle the mind and if they cannot draw the soul back from the Lord and the Living-Path then they strive to vex afflict and torment it There is none knows what is felt inwardly by the followers of the Lamb but those that travel with him in the Living-Path they are often sensible of what they meet with in their travels and how hard it is to abide in the path of Salvation insomuch as they understand the truth of that saying If the Righteous scarcely be saved It is scarcely indeed so subtile so strong such a many holds so many stratagems hath the subtile twining crooked piercing Leviathan to ensnare perplex over-run and entangle them with And then outwardly the same flesh the same earthly spirit and wisdom the same crooked hellish will is striving in men without also to bear down and subject the pure Principle in them who are born of God to their devices and institutions decrees wayes customs c. which are of the will and wisdom of the flesh So that as the Apostle said through much tribulation is the entrance of the soul into the heavenly Kingdom and there is no avoiding the many tribulations but by turning aside out of the way which though thereby the flesh get ease for a time it will be to the greater loss and sorrow in the end For the spirit of the world the wisdom of the world the nature religion worship and whole course of the world is contrary to the way of the pure Wisdom and Spirit of God and useth it as its enemy where ever it findeth it and they that will not bow to the spirit wisdom and way of the world must feel the force of its beastly claws For is it not a beastly thing even far beneath the nature of a man to persecute that which is good to hurt reproach and pursue the innocent life of the Lamb and yet this is that which the spirit of the world which is not of God but wise and seemingly just and righteous in another wisdom nature and principle always hath done still doth and will do to the end 12. That there is a glorious Crown prepared for all those who are gathered to the Lamb in this Principle and abide with him faithfull therein to the end hearing his Voice believing the demonstration of his Spirit obeying him in all his motions and requirings undergoing every yoke which is appointed by him to yoke down the fleshly nature and mind and taking up every Crosse of every kind in meekness patience and fear And there is not only a Crown laid up for them at last but the Power of the Lord God is nigh unto them to work all in them to bear them up through and over all and to keep them to and in that Principle whereby and whereinto his tender Mercy and powerful Arm gathered them For as the Power of the Lord began the work for there could never any heart be gathered from under the power of darkness to the Light which leads out of it but by the Power of the Lord for the powers of darkness stand between and would hold and keep their own did not a greater Power appear and put forth it self for the soul against them I say as