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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

TO THE JEWS NATVRAL AND TO THE JEWS SPIRITVAL With a few Words to 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. A Scripture of Deep Counsel Concern to the darkned and distressed states of some among those that fear obey the Lord. By ISAAC PENINGTON Printed in the Year 1677. TO THE JEWS NATVRAL AND TO THE JEWS SPIRITVAL With a few Words to England my Native Country Whereunto are added two or three Queries touching the River and City of God and the pure Stilness wherein God is known and exalted As also some Questions answered concerning the true Church Ministry and Maintenance under the Gospel about the Lamb's war Written in Travelling Bowels By ISAAC PENINGTON Truly God is good to Israel to such as are of a clean heart Psalm 73.11 Behold an Isralite indeed in whom is no guile Joh. 1.47 For he is not a Iew that is one outwardly neither is that Circumcision which is outward in the flesh but he is a Iew which is one inwardly and Circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit and not in the letter whose Praise is not of men but of God Rom. 2.28 29. Behold the Dayes come saith the Lord that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised Egypt and Iudah and Edom and the Children of Ammon and Moab and all that are in the utmost corners that dwell in the wilderness for all these Nations are uncircumcised and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart Ier. 9.25 26. Printed in the Year 1677. THE PREFACE WHat a day of distress and revelation of the righteous Judgment of God is to come upon the wicked and ungodly World even upon man who was created in the Image of God but is now fallen from it and found out of it and in another Image very unlike it the eye which the God of this world hath blinded and the heart which he hath hardened by sin and transgression hath no sense of What a day of distress and misery some in this nation and in other parts of the World have already met with how they have felt the Weight of Sin upon their Spirits and what a sore thing it hath been to them to feel their Souls separated from that God that made them who is the Husband and Father King and Preserver of Souls that are found in his Image and Nature how they have been inwardly captivated by a Forreign Power and oppressed and made to serve under sin and could hear no effectual Tidings of his appearance who was able to save but their Spirits were ready to sink and their Hope of Redemption from that which oppressed and captivated them almost cut off this being an inward State and Condition hath been altogether hid from the Eye which is outward How the Lord at length appeared unto these his Bowels having long rowled over them and he having long waited to be gracious to them even till the fully acceptable and set time was come how his Light hath shined in and upon them how he gathered those dry Bones together and breathed Life into them and made them live this is also altogether an hidden thing from the Eye of the World How the Lord who appeared to them hath exercised and tried them how he hath judged them and how he hath saved them what Desolations he hath made inwardly in them and what he hath built up there what an Hammer a Sword a Fire c. his pure Word of Life hath been in them How that Birth which could live without God without his inward Life or upon Words and Knowledge without Life hath been famished until by the Pain of the Famine its very Life and Breath hath been taken from it and it crucified with Christ by the Pain of the Cross of Christ and what Birth hath been raised and crowned afterwards and beautified with the Ornaments of Righteousness and Salvation yea with the endless Love and Mercy of its God and how the Lord is with his People and dwells and walks in them and how he hath humbled them to walk with him and how in Fear and Humility they do walk with him in the Light of the Day everlasting even as God is Light and walks in the Light of his own Day these are very strange and unknown things to the Wisest and most Prudent in Religion at this Day who are not gathered into the Mystery of Godliness nor into the Spirit Power and Glory of the Father where these things are revealed in and by the Son What Faith the Children of Wisdom have in the Wisdom and Power which hath appeared what Confidence they have in the Lord their God that he will stand by them in all their Exercises and Trials both inward and outward and what Experiences they have had of the Lords standing by them in both how his Faithfulness doth not fail and how their Faith in him is upheld and preserved by him that it doth not fail in the stormy time or Hour of greatest Distress and how their Eye is unto him and their Hearts with him in the Calms so that their God is all in all unto them continually And who knows this but they that have it Oh who can utter or declare the Sweetness and Certainty of this where it is enjoyed What Love also the Lord sheds abroad in their Hearts and how he teacheth and causeth them to love by often circumcising their Hearts and cutting off that which hindereth the pure Love from springing in them and how they love others in the Love wherewith God who is Love hath loved them and how natural it is to them to pray for their Enemies and to bless them that curse them and do Good for Evil but cannot requite Evil for Evil being transplanted into and growing up in the Root that is good and sends up good sap and Virtue into them which nourisheth all that is good in them but is Death and Destruction to the Remainders of evil as the Lord pursueth and findeth it out Oh how impossible is it for the Heart of man to conceive or understand Now I also having tasted of the Mercy and Goodness of the Lord and having been brought out of a State of great Misery and Sorrow of Heart into the Redemption and Joy of God's chosen and having found the Lord faithful to me and giving me Faith in the Appearance of his Spirit and Power in me and true Love tender Love not only to my Brethren in the Truth but to all Mankind springing in me and divers Fruits issuing forth from it some of them at this time I cannot but publish and the Lord open the Hearts of those whom it concerns that they may find some Help Benefit and Furtherance by it for it is the Joy of my Heart to receive Good from God

of the Messiah What is it to come to these waters O that ye experimentally knew But this I will tell you from true and certain Experience that if ye come to take notice of this word of Life which God hath placed nigh in your Mouths and Hearts to separate between the Evil words and evil thoughts of the Enemie's begetting and bringing forth and the good words and good thoughts of God's begetting and bringing forth and incline your Ear to it and come from that which it reproves in you and draws you from to it self your souls shall soon come to live and he that gives you Life will make an Everlasting Covenant with you even the sure Mercies of David But ye must still mind him as a witness and leader and commander inwardly in your Hearts that ye may be preserved in the Covenant and enjoy the Blessings of it see Isa 55. Qu. 3. Did not the Messiah come at the set time at the time set by the holy Spirit of prophecy Did he not come in the prepared Body to do the will And did he not do the will And after his Obedience to his Father was he not cut off though not for himself And after his cutting off were not you made desolate Why were ye made desolate Why did such a stroke come upon you as never before O consider it Read Dan. 9.24 to the end of the chapter and let him that readeth understand Qu. 4. What was that Curse and on whom did it light Let their Table become a Snare to them c. Psalm 69. was it not on those that gave gall and vinegar to the Messiah to drink whom David was a figure of and spake in spirit concerning Whose Eyes are alwayes darkned Doth not the vail lie still on your whole Nation Do ye know the inward mountain where the vail or face of the covering is destroyed In the inward day and light of the Messiah it is destroyed There that which vails the noble eye of the m●nd is known and also that which destroyes and re●oveth it To what purpose is it for you to read Moses and the Prophets when the vail is so upon you that ye cannot see what is to be abolished and is abolished by the dawning of the glorious day of the Messiah and what is to remain and never to be abolished There is a Jewship there is a Circumcision there is a Sabbath there is a Rest c. for the inward and spiritual people which is to remain and never to be abolished Qu. 5. VVho were those that God would hide his Face from and see what their end should be because they were a froward Generation children in whom was no faith VVho were they that moved God to Jealousie and provoked him to Anger And what was the people and foolish nation he would provoke them to Jealousie and Anger with Deut. 32. Was it not the spiritual the holy nation inwardly the true Jews whom God took from among the Gentiles whom he appeared among and was a God and a Father to when he cast off and forsook the Jews outward and left them to be a Desolation Qu. 6. Who are those that shall be hungry when God's Servants shall eat And thirsty when God's Servants shall drink And ashamed when his Servants shall rejoyce Are not your souls hungry and parched for want of the spiritual sustenance which the living God satisfieth his servants with making 〈◊〉 feast of fat things to them on his inward holy mountain And are not ye ashamed of your expectations of the Messiah while the servants of the Lord rejoyce in him their Prince and Saviour and witness him daily a Leader and Commander to them What is the People whom the Lord hath slain and made desolate are not ye a slain people to God alienated from his Life Spirit and Power dead in your litteral Notions and Observations And what are the servants of the Lord whom the Lord hath called by another Name even a Name that ye never knew see Isa 66. And consider how all your day God spread out his Hand to you and ye were rebellious and would not hear and now night is come upon you and your visitation as such a people is and hath been long ended Qu. 7. Did not God signifie by the Prophet Malachy that he had no Pleasure in you nor would accept an Offering at your Hand And did not he also signifie the choosing of the Gentiles in your stead that the called among the Gentiles should be his people and his Name which ye had profaned should be great among them and their Incense and pure Offering in every place be accepted even from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same Read Mal. chap. 1. Qu. 8. Now the inward people and the inward Covenant the New Covenant are brought forth shall ye ever be owned or regarded as an outward People according to your outward Covenant any more Will not all such expectations fail you for ever Ye have looked from generation to generation for the coming and appearing of the Messiah outwardly after an outward manner But his coming and appearance is inward and he setteth up his Kingdom his everlasting Kingdom in his Saints and in their Hearts he ruleth inwardly and the Messiah the seed of the VVoman bruiseth the Head of the serpent there O that ye knew the substatce O that ye knew the VVord of Life in the Heart and were turned to it and daily faithful and obedient That ye might feel it crushing and dashing the power of sin and corruption in your Hearts This is the Consolation Hope and Joy of the inward and spiritual Israel O that ye might be made partakers thereof and that your long outward captivity and desolation might at length end in inward Freedom and Redemption Amen Somewhat of Concern to the Jews spiritual who are of the Seed of Abraham spiritually or according to the Faith and gathered in this day of God's Power to the true and everlasting Shiloh THE Scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Law-giver from between his Feet untill Shiloh come and unto him shall the Gathering of the People be Gen. 49.10 Old Jacob in the Spirit of Prophecy saw that Judah was to have the Scepter the kingly Power and it was not to depart from him it was to be his Right and the Law-giver was to be between his Feet till Shiloh came then the Right was Shiloh's to reign and to give Laws to his People whom he should gather out of the Kingdom of Darkness and from Satan's Power into his own inward spiritual and everlasting Kingdom This was the true King God's King whom he would set up on the holy Hill of spiritual Zion and all the holy inward spiritual gatherings of all People scattered from the holy living Power must be to him I will overturn overturn overturn it and it shall be no more until he come whose Right it is and I will give it him And his

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

Finger daily more and more But this Covenant contains yet more even the putting of his own Spirit within them to be a Fountain of Life there a Fountain of Strength and Wisdom there to make them more and more willing in the day of his Power and to cause them to walk in his wayes and keep his Statutes and Judgments and do them that the Lord their God may bless them and delight in them O who would not long after and take up the Cross and Shame to enjoy the Glory of this State O what hath God done for a poor despised Remnant among the Gentiles O who would not desire to keep this blessed Covenant with the Lord that he might fully enjoy the Lord that the Marriage with the Maker might be witnessed in his Loving-kindness Everlasting Righteousness and all Unrigteousness and Uncleanness might be put away removed and separated from the Heart forever Ah the Virgin-Spirit which the Lamb loves and delights to marry with He that is joyned to the Lord is one Spirit and he must part with all that is old evil unclean and corrupt in him that would be joyned to the Lord and become one Spirit with him O who would lose the precious Fear of the Covenant which is clean and endureth forever and keepeth clean and chast to the Lord forever And who vvould miss of one Lavv which God hath to write in the Hearts of his Children when every Law is a Law of Life and changeth the Mind into the Nature of the Law-giver And who would grieve God's Spirit which is our Comforter Or quench that which kindles the pure Flame of Love and Life in our Hearts Much less can any of his dear and tender Children be willing to vex him by manifest Carelesness and Disobedience who giveth us to drink of the River of his Pleasures O my dear Friends ye do not know the great Travail of my Heart that all the Children of the Lord might walk before him in all well-pleasing that we might come all into Covenant into the full Covenant and walk fully with him in the Covenant that his Anger might be forever turned away from us all and he might never be wroth with nor rebuke any of us any more It is written on my Heart the breaking forth of this Glory would reach the Jews And though they be cast off as to their outward State and not so to be owned or come into that Glory any more yet there is a Day of mercy and Love for them as to that inward State of Life and Redemption which their outward State typified And the breaking forth of the full Glory of the Gentiles and the manifestation of God's mighty Power and Presence with them they being made by God a People to him and so walking with God as none possibly can but those who are created anew and so made by him this might provoke the Jews the poor scattered forsaken Jews to seek after the Lord their God and David their King inwardly to be revealed in them and rule among them The Lord God of our Life and tender Mercies carry on to Perfection this blessed Work of his which he hath so mightily begun and so mightily hitherto carried on and keep us in the Sense of his good Spirit and in tender and holy subjection thereto and in Unity together in the Life wherein we have been gathered and preserved and in pure Judgment over all the Workings of the Enemy every where and in the gospel-Gospel-love one to another and to all men even our greatest Enemies that we may seek the good of all men even the rescuing and preserving all out of Sin and Wrath as much as in us is possible that the pure Light wherewith our God and Heavenly Father hath enlightned us may shine in us and the Life wherewith he hath ●uickned us may live in us and we may feed on nothing but Life and grow in nothing but Life and Truth to the great Glory of our Heavenly Father and to the great Joy of our Hearts Amen A few words to England my Native Country O Land of my Nativity O my dear Country-men THE pure Power of the Lord is upon me and the Springs of Life open in me and among many other things I am melted in Love and Desires after your Welfare and this is in my Heart to say to you If I now testifie to you in Truth of a Pearl a heavenly Pearl an everlasting Pearl will ye not hear me If I tell you your Heart is the Field or Earth wherein it is hid will ye not consider of it If the everlasting Gospel be preached again which contains true Tidings of Redemption from sin will ye not listen after it If the Kingdom of God and Righteousness of Christ be to be revealed within would ye not willingly learn to wait for it there and beg of God that the Eye may be opened in you which alone can see it when it doth appear Indeed God's Visitation is upon this Nation in an especial manner his Light and Power is breaking forth in it against the Darkness and Power of the Spirit of Satan which hath captivated and still captivateth many Ye desire outward liberty and the enjoyment of your outward rights would ye not be free inwardly Free from the base earthly selfish nature and spirit which man fallen from God and the Glory wherein he created him is degenerated into Oh is not the Power of God and life of Christ able to restore man to this He that created man at first so glorious in his own Image is he not able to create him anew Oh hear my dear Countrymen the Power is revealed which createth anew and they that receive it and are as Clay in the Hands of the great Potter given up to be formed by it are daily created by the Operation of it anew into an holy heavenly innocent living tender righteous Frame Day by Day and are made willing daily more and more to be the Lord's in this Day of his Power and do receive Power to become Sons and strength against their Souls Enemies And the glorious work of Redemption which God hath begun in them the Arm of his strength mightily carrieth on in them to their Comfort and his everlasting Praise There is a spiritual Egypt and Sodom as well as there was an outward and there is a spiritual Wilderness and Canaan also And the Arm of God's Power inwardly and spiritually hath been revealed in this spiritual Egypt Wilderness and Canaan as really as ever it was in the outward Do ye not read of a Jew-inward and a Circumcision-inward and the leaven-inward and keeping the Feast of Unleavened Bread even of Bread that is not leavened with sin And he that eats of this unleavened Bread it unleavens him of sin and leavens him with Life and Holiness For it is an holy Bread and a living Bread This is the Bread which comes down from Heaven which they that feed upon live and