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sin_n	dead_a	life_n	quicken_v	4,758	5	10.5324	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54024	The axe laid to the root of the old corrupt-tree, and the spirit of deceit struck at in its nature from whence all the error from the life, among both papists and Protestants hath arisen, and by which it is nourished and fed at this day, in a distinction between the faith which is of man, and the faith which is of God ... / by ... Isaac Penington the younger.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1659 (1659)	Wing P1152; ESTC R228095	43,395	52

and incourage men to hearken after and waite for the voyce but it is the immediate voyce of Christ in the soul which alone can quicken the soule to God and till the light of life shine immediatly from Christ in the heart the true knowledge is never given 2 Cor. 4. 6. Therefore they that never yet heard the immediate voice of Christ are still dead in their sins and have not yet received the true living knowledge but a dead litterall knowledge which gives a false shining of things in the dead part but kills the life Indeed the proper use of all means is to bring to the immediate voice life and power and till this be done till the soule come to that to hear that to feele that to be rooted there there is nothing done that will stand but men stick by the way crying up the means the means and never knowing tasting or enjoying the thing which the means point to But he that knows God comes into the immediate presence and he that dayly lives in God lives in the immediate life and the true faith leads to this giving the soul such a touch and tast of it at first as makes it unsatisfiable without it By this Christ cuts off the Jewes with all their zeale and knowledge Joh. 5. 37 38. Ye have not heard his voyce at any time nor seen his shape and ye have not his word abiding in you There 's the hearing of the voyce the sight of the shape and the having of the word of God abiding in the heart which gives both the hearing of the voyce and the sight of the shape and keeps the soule quick and living in the life The voyce gives life the sight of the shape daily conforms into the image which is beheld by the eye of life and the word abiding in the heart nourishes and feeds the living soul with the pure bread of life But the Jews knew not this but were crying up their Sabbaths the Law of Moses the ordinances of Moses the Temple of God the instituted worship of God and so were shut out of the thing it selfe which those things ended in and out of a capacity of receiving it And thus many zealous ones at this day not having come to this no more then the Jews did but sticking in the letter of the Gospel as the Jews did in the letter of the Law stumble at the present dispensation of life and cannot do otherwise IV. That Christs immediate revelation of the nature of his Father is to his babes Not to the wise not to the zealous not to the studious not to the devout not to the rich in the knowledge of the Scriptures without but to the weak the foolish the poor the lowly in the heart And man receives not these revelations by study by reading by willing by running c. but by being formed in the will of life by being begotten of the will of the Father by coming forth in the will and lying still in the will and growing up in the will here the childe receives the wisdome which is from above and daily learns that crosse which crucifies the other wisdome which joyns with and pleases the other will which loves to be feeding on the shadowy and husky part of knowledge without life Therefore if ever thou desire to receive this knowledge from Christ know that eye in thy self that is to be blinded which Christ will never reveal the Father to read at home know the wise and prudent there whom Christ excludes from the living knowledge And if thou canst bear it that eye that can read the Scriptures with the light of its own understanding that can consider and debate and take up sences and meanings of it without the immediate life and power that 's the eye that may gather what it can from the letter but shall never see into the life nor ●ast of the true knowledge for Christ who alone opens and gives the knowledge hides the pearl from that eye The true knowledge is only powred into the new vessell It is the living soul alone that receives the living knowledge of the living God from Christ the life The old nature the old understanding is for death and destruction The wisdom of flesh though painted never so like to the spirituall wisdome is not to be spared anywhere but that wisdome with all its zeal and growth and progresse in religion must perish All mens knowledge of the Scriptures which they have gathered into that part will profit them nothing but hinder them Every building which the leprosie of sin hath overspread is to be pulled down therefore he that hath had only the old house swept and garnished never received the true knowledge from whence the true faith spring but his life lies in the oldnesse of the letter in the conformity of the dead part to that and he knows not the vertue of the knowledge of God in the newnes of the spirit the vailt being over his heart which is only given to the new understanding V. That this faith which springs from the true knowledge is Gods gift and is not that power of beleeving which is to be found in mans nature but of another nature even of the nature of the giver And when man is called to beleeve he is not called to put forth that faith wherewith he beleeveth other things but to receive and exercise the gift of faith which is from above That which is to be believed in is spirituall and that must be spirituall which believes in it Man with all the powers of his nature is shut out it is another thing distinct from man which is let into life and which lets man in For man receiving the faith entering into the faith and becoming new-formed in the faith then he also may enter but till then he is shut out and knoweth not the life let him beleeve and read and pray and hear and exercise himself in that which he cals duties and ordinances never so much for all these set up in the wrong part in man they onely feed the wrong part and that withall its food and nourishment falls short of the life Therefore the true entrance into religion is to feele that power which slayes mans naturall ability and propensity to beleeve that so the gift of the true faith may be received for there is no rising up and living of the second without the death of the first with all his naturall faculties and powers VI That by this faith alone which is the gift which is from above and not that faith which grows either in the wilderness or garden of the old nature and is fed by the oldness of the letter and not by the newnesse of the Spirit is Christ received For Christ can be received by the faith alone that comes from him and that faith which comes from him cannot but receive him Mans faith refuseth him it receiveth a litterall knowledge of him from what it heareth from

THE AXE LAID TO THE ROOT OF THE OLD CORRVPT-TREE AND The Spirit of deceit struck at in its nature from whence all the error from the life among both Papists and Protestants hath arisen and by which it is nourished and fed at this Day In a Distinction between the Faith which is of man and the Faith which is of GOD And in some Assertions concerning true Faith its nature rise c. It s receiving of Christ its abiding and growing in his living Vertue With a warning concerning adding and diminishing from the Scripture in generall and the Prophesies of the Revelation in particular Discovering what it is and the great danger of it with the only way of preservation from it where is added a Short touch about the Use of Means As also a brief History concerning the state of the Church since the dayes of the Apostles With an Exhortation to the present Age By the movings of the Life in a friend to the Living truth of the most High God but an utter enemy to the spirit of error and blasphemy where ever it is found as well in the strictest of the Protestants as among the grossest of the Papists Isaac Penington the younger LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Lodowick Lloyd at his shop next the Castle in Cornhill 1659. THE PREFACE THere was a glorious day and bright appearance of truth in the times of the Apostles They had the true Comforter who led them into all truth and kept them alive in truly and truth alive in them By this Spirit they as living stones were built up a spirituall house founded upon Sion the holy mount into Jerusalem the holy City which is the church of the living God the pillar and g●ound of truth And here they had their conversation in heaven with God the Judge of all with Christ the Mediatour and with the Spirits of ●ust men and the holy Angels which alwayes behold the face of God They lived in the Spirit they walked in the Spirit they prayed in the Spirit they sung in the Spirit they worshipped in the Spirit and in that understanding which the truth had made free and had God dwelling with them and Christ walking in the midst of them and by the presence and power of his life in them were truly dead unto sin and alive unto God they being not strivers against sin with mans legall spirit but by the power of grace which made them more then conquerours through him that loved them This was part of the glory of that state in that day of the Sunshine of the Gospel But behold a thick night of darknesse overspread the beauty of this Some false brethren went out from the true Church into the world getting the Sheeps cloathing making a great outward appearance and drew the world after them yea and some from the very Churches themselves how hard was the Apostle Paul fain to plead with the Corinthians about his own Apostleship and Doctrine that he might preserve that Church from the false Apostles And when they had gathered a sufficient party in the world they made head against the true sheep lambs of Christ fought with them and overcame them And when they had overcome them that had the living testimony of Jesus and the true power and presence of the Spirit among them they set up their own dead form making a cry all over the nations of the earth Revelation is ceased there is no looking now for such an infallible spirit and such immediate teachings as the christians had in the Apostles dayes who had the anointing to teach them all things but they point men to traditions to the church as they call it which title the whore hath engrossed since the dayes of the Apostles or to searchings of the Scriptures and reading expositions upon it and bodies of divinity formed by the understanding part in man to instruct the understading part Thus the whole course of religion and of the knowledge of God came to be out of that Spirit and life wherein it first came forth and wherein it first stood and consisted in doctrines of men and a form of worship and knowledge which the wisdome of man had framed in an imitation of that which formerly stood in the life And now men being gone from the life from the Spirit and his immediate teachings into an outward form of knowledge and worship of God in the wrong nature now Antichrist is got up and the Dragon sits in the Temple appearing there as if he were God giving out laws and ordinances of worship in publique and putting men upon duties and exercises of devotion in private and he is obeyed and bowed down to in the observation of these but the true living God is not known nor his secret still voyce which calls out of these heard because of the great noise which the Dragon makes in his Temple for so it is now he having gained it though it was once Gods about his laws and ordinances of worship which he would have all compelled to and none suffered to testifie against them that they are his and not the Lords Yet it pleased the Lord all the night of this darknesse to raise up some witnesses against the Dragon and all his invented forms of worship though they were still hunted persecuted knocked down and their testimony cryed out against as error heresie schism and blasphemy and the wayes worships and ordinances of the whore the beast and the dragon still cryed up as the truth Thus the Papists they cryed out against the Protestanus as heretiques and schismatiques who were witnesses against them and the Protestants they cryed out against the non-conformists seperatists and brownists who were witnesses against them and every sect cries out most against them who are led further from the apostacy and raised up by the Lord as witnesses against them against their setting down in their forme and not pursuing the guidance of that spirit which would lead them quite out of the darknesse and not have them sit down by the way Now the Lord God in these latter dayes hath not only raised up witnesses against the Whore the Dragon the Beast the false Prophets with all their inventions which they have set up instead of the truth but hath assayed and begun to deliver his people out of this Egyptian darknesse and to bring them back to the light of the land of Canaan And now great enemies have appeared the sons of the night exceedingly strengthening themselves to keep out the day light every one crying up his own form and all joyning hand in hand against the power yea that spirit which first tempted from God is exceeding busie to cause those whom the Spirit the Lord hath been drawing out of the land of darknesse to make a Captain to return to Egypt or at least to sit down in some form or some pleasant notion of things by the way not to follow the Lord through all his intricate