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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

Children XXIV Concerning Obedience Quest What is the true Obedience Answ The Obedience which slows from th● true understanding of God's will and from th● holy nature which he begets in the heart It is the Obedience which slows from true sense true understanding and true faith There is no birth can believe aright but one nor is there any birth can obey aright but that birth which believes aright The true believing is from the quickning vertue of God's spirit all other Faith is but dead Faith and the true Obedience is in the newness of the spirit Rom. 6.4 an● 7.6 Man may strive to understand and obey all his days but he can do neither but as he i● quickned taught and enabled of the Lord Teach me O Lord the way of thy statutes Psal 119.33 There is a mystical path of life Th● way of wisdom the way of holiness the holy skill of obeying the truth is hid from all living from all mankind but such as are begotten and brought up by him in the holy skill and mystery of subjection to the Lord. The people shall be a willing people in the any of thy ●●●er It is the power of God that works the will in the heart and the same power works to do also and none can learn either to will or to do ●righ●● but as they come to be acquainted with that power joyned to that power and feel that power working in them And here in this power to this new birth faith and the Holy Obedience are as natural as unbelief and disobedience is to the birth of the flesh It is frequently and abundantly experienced by his holy birth by the child of his begetting Blessed be the name of the Lord. XXV Concerning Justification Quest What is Justification or how is a man justified in the sight of God Answ By a true sense of and Faith in that which justifies which is the spirit the life the water the bloud the vertue the power of the Lord Jesus All these are one in nature and they go together Man is sinful naturally fallen from God found a transgressor against him Now he needs Justification from his sins and he needs Justification in respect of what God hath entrusted him with and requires of him and in the new birth and joyning to the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ he meets with both Being quickned by his holy spirit turned from the darkness coming into the light and walking in the light there his sins are done away blotted out as if they had never been for his names sake and there he receiveth a new ability a new heart a new spirit yea the spirit of the living God to quicken him and work in him and whatever he doth in this spirit or rather what God doth by him in and through this spirit is justified owned and accepted God finds no fault in any of the fruits of his own spirit in any of the children of men but only in the fruits of the flesh And if for want of watchfulness the enemy should prevail and draw into a snare yet upon turning to the light of Gods holy Spirit which discovers and reproves for it in the holy light the water flows the bloud is sprinkled the conscience is cleansed and so becomes clean even in God's sight O blessed is he who is not deceived with dead notions of Justification but feels the Justification which comes from God and is accompanied with a living sense and with the testimony of his holy Spirit XXVI Concerning Good Works Quest What are Good Works Answ The Works that flow from God's good Spirit the Works that are wrought in God they are good Works The Works of the new birth of the new creature are good Works whereas all the works of the flesh are bad though never so onely painted All its thoughts imaginations reasonings willings runnings hunting to find out God and heavenly things with all its sacrifices are corrupt and evil having of the bad leaven of the bad nature in them Make the tree good or its fruit can never be good So that they are only the good Works that flow from the good tree from the good root And here all the works of the flesh though never so glorious and taking in mans eye are shut out by Gods measure by Gods line and plummet of righteousness and true Judgment and every work of God's Spirit the meanest work of faith the least labour of true love the least shining of life in the heart and the giving up thereto ●s owned by God as coming from him and wrought in him who worketh both to will and ●o do of his own good pleasure He that is ga●hered to the light which God hath enlightned him with hath received the light dwelleth in the light and walketh in the light th● spirit of the living God is near him and dwelleth with him and worketh in him and h● bringeth his deeds to the Light where it 〈◊〉 manifest that they are wrought in God B● he that is out of the inward Light of God's holy Spirit his works are not wrought in God and so can but make a fair shew in the Flesh 〈◊〉 the fleshly eye but are not good in God's sigh● The erring mans way and works are often rigi● in his own eyes ah but blessed is he whe● way and works are good and right in the ey● of the Lord in the judgment of his searchin● unerring Light and Spirit XXVII Concerning Love Quest Which is the true Love Answ The Love which ariseth from the n●ture which God begets and from his circumcising the heart from the other nature Lo●● is the beautiful thing What can be high●● expressed concerning God himself than to sa● he is Love Love is greatly commended and admired and there are many pretenders to it b●● none have the true Love but only those that ar● born of God and circumcised by him T● Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul that thou mayest live Deut. 30.6 Mark The true Love ariseth from the true circumcision And the more a man comes to have his heart circumcised from the fleshly nature and to grow up in the pure and heavenly nature the more he loves God is Love and the nigher any one comes to him and the more he partakes of him the more he becomes Love in the Lord and the more he is taught of God to love the Lord his God and his brethren in the spirit and all mankind who are of his bloud for of one bloud God made all mankind according to the flesh or according to a natural consideration XXVIII Concerning Meekness and Patience Quest Which is the true Meekness and Patience Answ The Meekness and Patience which ariseth from the Lambs nature Deceit will put on an appearance of Love and deceit will put on also an appearance of Meekness and Patience but it cannot put on the

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