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A54031	The consideration of a position concerning the Book of common-prayer as also of some particulars held forth for truths by one Edmund Elis, stiled a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ : with a warning of tender bowels to the rulers, teachers and people of this nation concerning their church and ministry : likewise a few words concerning the kingdom, laws and government of Christ in the heart and conscience, its inoffensiveness to all just laws and governments of the kingdoms of men / by Isaac Penington the younger.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.; Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1161; ESTC R28789	24,645	40

shall be the Church and Ministry or whether Gods holy Nation which he calleth and sanctifieth by his Spirit and the Ministers which he chuseth and sendeth to gather and build up his in the holy Faith and pure power of Life shall be the Church and Ministry Our eyes wait on the Lord to see this Controversie determined and our hope of help is in his Arm nor are we at all affrighted at the rising of any strength against us our hearts being given up to Gods Truth and to suffer for its Testimony according to Gods will meekly and patiently in his strength but we pitty this poor land yea in the depth of bowels we pitty the Rulers the Teachers and People therein O that they might be humbled and in fear of the great God surrender to him his due before he appear in his strength to force it from them Of the Kingdom Laws and Government of Christ in the Heart and Conscience its Inoffensiveness to all just Laws and Governments of the Kingdoms of men CHrists Kingdom Gods Kingdom the Kingdom of Heaven for they are all one and the same is that seed of Eternal Life which God hath hid in the hearts of the sons of men whereby he gathereth them back unto himself bringeth them under the Yoak of his Government ruleth over them and reigneth in them This Kingdom is likened to a grain of mustard seed for its smalness to a Pearl for its Riches Value and Worth to Leaven for its spreading nature and many other Parables did Christ make use of to discover it by as to a piece of Silver which the woman that lost it lighting the candle sweeping the house and searching it diligently at length found it even there where she had lost it Man fallen from God is become lost as to the Lord and as to his own happiness in the Lord being driven from his blessed presence and divine Image Life and Spirit into the earthly Spirit Image and Life which he chose Yet in this Earth in this Field of the World God hath hid somewhat even the everlasting Pearl which when man is awakened to seek and findeth in the living Breath in the Eternal Light of Life it is able to redeem him it is able to overspread he becoming subject to the Laws Leadings Teachings and Power of it and leaven him into the Likeness and Image of the pure Life and Spirit Or not men knew the Gift of God O that men knew the purchase of the blood of Christ O that men knew that Spiritual good thing which Christ who died for them hath given to Redeem them by that in that they might be united to Christ and so by him be Renewed and Restored to God For as the Father receiveth none but through the Son so the Son receiveth none but in that Gift which he bestoweth from the Father He owneth no Faith no Love no Hope no Repentance no Obedience but what springeth from that and standeth in that Now as man is Born of this is Leavened by this as he becomes a fool in his own earthly wisdom and excellency of the fallen Spirit and becomes a Babe a Child Simple Innocent c. so he enters into the Kingdome being ingrafted into the Root through the virtue of this which is given him from the Root and so grows up in this and this in him And here 's the new Nature the new Life the new Heart the new Spirit in which the Unity and Fellowship with God is again known and the Disunion with the World the Wisdom the Interests the Fashions the Customs the Fears the Hopes the Delights the Joys of this World and whatever else is of it For Christ as he is not of the World so he calleth men out of the World and they which follow him and become his Disciples go out of the World after him that is travel in Spirit and Conversation from what is of the Earth from what ever is not of the Father but of the World They are not of the World even as I am not of the World saith Christ concerning his Disciples John 17. therefore the world hateth them The Laws of this Kingdom are given forth in the Kingdom from the Covenant of life which is made there in Christ They are written in the heart in the mind as far as it is renewed There the fear is put there the eternal Wisdom is opened there is Sion known and the Jerusalem which is from above and the Laws of eternal life issue fresh from it and are revealed by the life in the heart which is turned towards the life There sin is reproved and everlasting Righteousness manifested in the Light which cannot deceive and as the heart is made subject under the yoke so sin is wrought out and Righteousness brought in and under the Cross or yoke of life the blood of the everlasting Covenant runs through the vessel to keep it pure sweet clean and fresh in the life This then is the Government of Christ to be subject to his Spirit which appears and opens his will in the gift of grace which comes from him to feel his living breath by which the heart is begotten to God out of the Region of darkness to know the movings the stirrings the leadings the steps of the Lamb who is the Captain of our Salvation and to follow him where ever he goes doing all things that he commands forbearing all things that he forbids without murmuring without disputing Who ever will be of the inward Israel the spiritual Israel which Christ redeems out of the spiritual Egypt and leads through the spiritual Wilderness into the Land of Rest must know his Leader must receive his Spirit and follow it faithfully If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his he is none of the spiritual Israel and if any man follow not the Spirit of Christ through all the travels in the Wilderness but either sits down by the way or lyes overcome by any kind of enemies and comes not to the end of his journey finishing the warfar and fight of Faith he falls short of the rest O that men were awakened to consider of things as indeed they are for Religion is not such an outward Form of Doctrine or Worship of any sort as men generally whose poor Souls are deceived through the subtilty of the powers of darkness are too apt and willing to apprehend but it consists in Spirit in Power in Vertue in Life not in the oldness of any Form which passeth away but in the newness of the Spirit which abideth for ever in being born of the Spirit in abiding in the Spirit in living walking and worshipping in the Spirit yea in becoming and growing into Spirit and into eternal Life for that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit O that the sons of men would hearken that they might tast of the sweetness and riches of the goodness which the Father in his free love hath opened in the

of Faith and several degrees of Life and Glory Some are under the Clouds some in the Sea some in Egypt some in the Wilderness some waiting for his appearance some in the enjoyment of him already appeared In some the work of Regeneration of Sanctification of newness of Spirit and Life is but begun in others it is interrupted and they come to a losse in some it is much carried on even towards consummation and some are already compleat in him finding fulness of satisfaction in him in whom the everlasting Springs are opened to the full content of their hearts and bring forth fruit to him to the full content and satisfaction of his heart In the Apostles dayes there were those that waited for his coming and there were those also that knew him come and had received the good understanding from him and were in the Eternal life John 5.20 Yet this doth not exclude growth for the fulness is infinite and though a perfect state may be attained in the perfect gift yet there is a growth in the perfection for Christ who was perfect and in whom was no guile grew in Wisdom and Knowledge and in favour with God and men And as God is infinite so that which is transplanted into him there is no growth in him but the Tree which stands in God's holy Earth by his pure River of waters shall grow for ever into his endless life and fulness To his sixth That no man can so know God as to love him with all his heart and with all his Soul but through the knowledge of Jesus Christ and him Crucified Who by those grievous sufferings which he endur'd when he was upon Earth made satisfaction to the justice of God for the sins of all those that believe in his Name so that it is as consistent with the justice as with the mercy of God to forgive them their sins and make them heirs of eternal life God is just and the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus Answ The knowledge of Christ is life Eternal and in his Cross is the spiritual vertue which cuts off the uncircumcision of the heart whereby it is enabled to love the Lord. Now Christ is the Lord from Heaven the quickning Spirit who soweth the Seed of the Kingdom in the heart and causeth it to spring up out of which Seed the Faith the Love the Hope the Meekness the Patience and every spiritual fruit springs and grows And he that is thus born of this Seed and receives the knowledge of life which springs from this Seed he cannot but love him which begat him and he reapeth the fruit of all that Christ did and suffered in that prepared body and God is both just and the Justifier of him who is thus united to Jesus But that man who knoweth not this Faith nor is acquainted with the love which springeth from this Root and which is of this Divine nature but thinketh to be justified by applying to himself what is related in the Histories concerning Christ this man deceives his Soul and misseth of the true Justification for God is just who hath made the Promise sure to the Seed and hath shut out man further than he is born of the Seed and found in the Seed But he who abideth in the Seed and in whom the Seed findeth pleasure and abideth he cannot miss of the Promise of the everlasting Righteousness the Reconciliation the Peace the Joy and whatever else God giveth to the Seed To his seventh and last That the ready way to receive Christ the onely Light by which we may see the way to Heaven or so to believe in him that we may be saved by him is to forsake all that we have that we may be his Disciples that is to say to take off our affections from things on the Earth and to set them on things above where Jesus sitteth on the right hand of God putting our trust and confidence in the free and in the infinite mercy of God through Christ to be guided by him in all our wayes to be led by his good Spirit in all those wayes of grace and holiness through which we must pass before we can attain to glory Answ To know Christ as the Light eternal as he was yesterday is to day and will be for ever to trust this Light in its convictions calls and free openings of love to feel its living virtue and in that virtue to give up all that 's of the earthly nature and spirit to sell it for the everlasting inheritance this is indeed the way to life But it is not the doing of things which is of value for man may imitate and strive to do much and may go a great way in forsaking all and in taking off his affections from things inasmuch as he may give all his goods to the poor and his body to be burned and yet it profit him nothing but it is the doing of things in the virtue in the life in the power which comes from Christ which is of acceptance with God and of advantage to the soul Every motion and operation of true life springs from the root of life and hath the virtue of the root in it and that which differenceth it from all mens imitations and from all the likenesses which the earthly spirit can frame is the nature and virtue of the root being found in it Therefore he that will be a true Christian must eye Christ the spring of his life and keep in the feeling of his living virtue and in that offer up all his Sacrifices of faith love and obedience to God and he that will be a true Minister must wait upon the power himself to be an Instrument in the hand of the power to direct men to this and to preserve and build them up therein But alas this is the Stone which the wise Builders have all along refused The Builders before the coming of Christ they got a knowledge concerning the Messiah to come but being unacquainted with the thing it self rejected both it at its coming and also the Vessel wherein it appeared And the Builders all along the Apostacy gat a knowledge of Christ come and preached Believing in him crucified as the way to life but the living Stone the living thing it self which is both the foundation the corner-Stone and the top Stone of the Building they have been ignorant of and ready to persecute every appearance of it Christ can no more now appear in Spirit than formerly he could in that prepared body of flesh but the wise Builders now are as ready to cry out against him for a Blasphemer a prophaner of Gods Ordinances a deceiver of the people yea a Witch or one that hath a Devil as the wise Builders then were But Wisdom in all ages is justified by her Children and of none else He that is born of the Wisdom he can discern the womb and own the fruit and branchings forth thereof under the mean dark vail whereby it

found how curiously soever the cup be guilded yet it is but the cup of Fornication which bewitcheth the heart with its golden appearance and then leads it into adultery from the life And the Dragon doth not onely set up a false Church over the Nations in many parts whereof the truth had before appeared Rev. 17.15 but a false Ministry also There 's a false Prophet which deceiveth with Miracles and false appearances of truth advanced in this corrupt state which false Prophet continues and upholds his deceit over the Nations till the mighty appearance of Christ in Spirit and Power do judge him Rev. 19.20 2 Thess 2.8 There 's a Beast with Horns like a Lamb who doth great Wonders so that he maketh Fire come down from Heaven on the Earth in the sight of men and deceiveth them that dwell on the Earth c. Rev. 13.13 14. Insomuch as he drawes the Kings and Inhabiters of the Earth in a Mysterie of deceit into the Bed of Whoredom and false Worship instead of the pure way of Life and pure Worship of the living God in his Spirit and in his truth Rev. 17.2 Is it not further manifest that this false Church and false Ministry set up in the World by the power of the Dragon persecute Gods Witnesses to the truth in all the ages of Antichrists reign So soon as ere the Church was fled into the Wilderness the Dragon forthwith went to make War with the remnant of her seed which kept the Commandments of God and had the testimony of Jesus Christ Rev. 12.17 And it was given unto him to make War with the Saints and to overcome them and power was given him over all Kindreds Tongues and Nations And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the World If any man have an ear let him hear Rev. 13.7 8 9. And he had power to give life unto the Image of the Beast that the Image of the Beast should both speak and cause that as many as would not worship the Image of the Beast should be killed And he causeth all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive a Mark in their right hand or in their fore-heads And that no man might buy or sell save he that had the Mark or the name of the Beast or the number of his Name Rev. 13.15 16 17. Yea the Woman the false Church which the Dragon had set up by his power in the Nations instead of the true was drunken with the Blood of the Saints and with the Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus Rev. 17.6 O the misery and lamentable hard usage of the Witnesses of Jesus who have been true Lambs born of the Power faithful to the Power witnessing against every Form and appearance of Religion Doctrine and Worship which hath appeared without the Power even in the daies of greatest profession and highest devotion under the Apostacy from the Power how have these been hunted persecuted devoured by the Wolves in the Sheeps cloathing who had got the outside the garment the Name of Christ and Christianity the profession of Church Ministry and Ordinances but have wanted the life the virtue the thing it self and so have turned against it and kept it down that they might keep up their Form For let but the Power appear the Form without the Power is soon detected to be what it is And this is properly Antichrist and Antichristianisme to wit Not openly to appear in a direct denyal of Christ his Truths and Worship but to set up a way of knowledge and worship without his Spirit Another spirit creeping into the Form that 's Antichrist and the setting up observation and practice of the Form out of the Life and Power that 's Antichristianisme and this is the persecuter destroyer and devourer about Religion Now though the Lord hath suffered this false Church and false Prophet to reign long in the Dragons power and to revile and worry his poor Lambs in every age of Antichrists Reign yet the Lord hath appointed a season to judge this false Church Rev. 17.1 to cast the false Prophet into the Lake Rev. 19. v. 20. yea and to torment with fire and brimstone all the false Worshippers Rev. 14.9 10 11. O how deeply doth it concern England her Rulers her Teachers yea the whole People thereof to consider their Ways to consider their Worship to consider their Church-state to consider their Ministry that they be not overwhelmed at unawars in the bitter wrath of the Almighty before which there is no standing O that they could mourn and pray and wait for the eye of Gods Spirit for his pure Light which searcheth and discovereth all the deceits of Antichrist that they might not be bewitched with any of the wine of the fornication of the false Woman whose heart is snares and nets and her hands as bands to entangle her lovers in and keep them from the pure bed of Life where the Father of Life with the Son and Spirit are enjoyed and worshipped If men consult concerning these things in the wisdom of the flesh they will be entangled and erre for that eye cannot see the Mysteries of the Kingdom or the course either of Truth or Deceit The Gospel the Eternal Truth the true Church the true Ministry are all Spiritual not new shadowes as the things under the ministration of the Law were but Spirit and Substance and they can onely be seen by the spiritual eye of the children of Wisdom The wise Hunters and diligent Enquirers into the comprehending part cannot find the Womb or the way of Life or the way of the Worship of that which is begotten in the Life or Gods way of Ministry which he hath appointed for the feeding and preserving of the Life The Prophets of old could not be known discerned or owned by the fleshly eye of observation in Israel after the flesh but they still rejected them esteeming and magnifying the false Prophets above them how much less can the Prophets and Ministers of the New Testament be seen by mans eye Are they the Prophets and Ministers of Christ which a Nation cries up for such and which the eye of the wise men therein admires and pitches upon or are those they which the renewed eye in the Light of the Lord sees to be fitted sanctified and called forth by Christ unto that service Ah poor England must thou fall into the pit before thine eyes be opened The great Controversie of this Age is about Church and Ministry which must carry it the Form or the Power Whether the Church and Ministry shall take place which was before the Apostacy or that which hath sprung up in or since the Apostacy Whether mans wisdom shall determine which is the true Church and its true Ministry or whether the Spirit of God shall determine it Whether a Nation with the Ministers it sets up