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A54045	Observations on some passages of Lodowick Muggleton, in his interpretation of the 11th chapter of the Revelations as also on some passages in that book of his stiled, The neck of the Quakers broken, and in his letter to Thomas Taylor : whereby it may appear what spirit he is of, and what god his commission is from : whereunto is added A brief account of my souls travel towards the Holy Land, with a few words concerning the way of knowing and receiving the truth / written ... by Isaac Pennington.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1668 (1668)	Wing P1181; ESTC R23187	23,070	30

nature of reason never did nor can do in any Again in p. 11. he saith very slightingly and as untruly concerning the Quakers thus As for the sins your hearts are clensed from they are no other but such like as these that is to say to keep the hat on the head before a Magistrate and to find fault with gold-lace and a piece of ribbon a bandstring and a gold button and to rend and tear gold-lace and other lace off their clothes and burn it and to use the Language of thee and thou He or she that gets thee or thou perfectly is a very good Quaker they are gotten half way to the Quakers Heaven These and such like righteousness is the Quakers perfection and all the cleansing of heart they have c. Observ O thou despiser reproacher and belyar of the Work of God in the hearts of his children Nay nay there are thousands who in Gods Presence can testifie against thee that they have waited for and received the inward clensing from the filthiness of flesh and spirit from the inward lusts and motions of sin in the mind having felt the Ax of the Lord and the two-edged Sword which cutteth up sin at the very roots But thou art so far from having thy heart cleansed that thou art not yet clensed from lying lips but bringest forth thy false reproachfull slanderous testimony against the Heritage of God in the sight of the Sun In p. 13. he saith further of the Quakers That they own no other death of Christ but what is within them what ever they pretend by using the words of Scripture c. Observ They sincerely and in plainness of heart own and acknowledge the death of that Body which the Father prepared for his Son in which he did the Fathers Will in his suffering without the Gate of Jerusalem Therefore in this he is a very false Witness and therein hath grosly belyed the Quakers In p. 15. he saith You Quakers are the darkest pieces to interpret Scripture of any other Opinions in the World for you will name places of Scripture but never interpret any c. Observ It is better to bring men to that which opens the mind to understand the Scriptures then to give men interpretations of words or things beyond their capacity Yet the Spirit of the Lord in and through many called Quakers doth often open many Scriptures in clearness and demonstration to others Read the Book called Gospel-Liberty or the Royal Law of Love and see if many Scriptures be not therein opened to the lowest capacity But the Lord hath given them the true skill and understanding and they are not to open to and feed that in men which the Lord hath appointto be famished Yet if they did not open Scriptures the Scriptures are plain to him that hath an understanding Now for a close I shall add somewhat of the Testimony which is written in my heart by the finger of Gods Spirit concerning the People called Quakers Indeed they have met with many reproaches and sore oppositions many wayes since they were a People but notwithstanding all their bow abides in strength and the hands of their arms have been made strong against the wicked one with all his devices in his several kinds of instruments and their Light is still the same and their God the same who blesseth them from day to day even in the midst of all the revilings slanders persecutions and curses which they have met with from men without and in the midst of all the temptations inward trials and afflictions also which are often met with inwardly Yea we know him to be our God and cannot but trust him having found him to be faithfull to us hitherto and knowing his nature to be such that he cannot but continue his loving-kindness and faithfulness to all who are gathered by him into his holy inward spiritual Covenant of Life and Peace and who dwells with him therein And truly we are fully satisfied and at rest in him and cannot desire another then he who hath redeemed our Souls from death given us Life brought us out of the pit wherein was no water into a large place set our feet upon a rock a rock indeed and establisheth our goings in the path of holiness working all our works in us and for us by his Spirit and Power Yea we have the Witness in our hearts even the Witness which never erred nor can deceive which testifieth to and with our spirits our Sonship so that we do not imagine our selves sons from apprehensions upon Scriptures but we feel our selves sons in the true sensibleness and know who David is and reap and inherit the sure mercies of David daily O blessed be our Father O blessed for ever be the Father of Life who feeds who nourishes who waters who refreshes with the Bread of Life and with the pure living Water his Lambs his babes his plants his tender ones of whom he is daily tender and who are daily tender of his Name and Honour And if any man preach another God then he who creates anew in the true Light and therein puts forth his arm of Salvation death and destruction and the curse are his portion from the hand of the Lord. Now O people any of you that reads this mans writings and admire them what spirit are ye of what is it in you that relisheth them what do they feed in you Not the true Birth I am sure but that in you which must perish and come into death and destruction if ever your Souls be saved I speak sensibly and from the true understanding and experience which God hath given me yea I certainly know that the knowledge and notions which he holds forth are not pure nor able to cleanse the heart of any that receives them And all people that truly love your Souls and desire the Salvation thereof O wait on God that ye may be enabled by him rightly to distinguish between receiving notions concerning God and Christ and feeling and receiving the Power which effectually redeems from sin and death for deceit may enter in at the one but cannot at the other The Enemy hath all deceivableness of unrighteousness to paint as if it were righteousness and appear in and to enter and possess the mind by but he is excluded the redeeming power He that feels that which renews his heart to God and breaks the power and strength of lusts and temptations in him and brings him into subjection to the Truth which from God lives in the hearts of those that receive it in the vertue life and power of it here his devices and deceits are at an end and here the elect Sheep feel the hand of the Father which is stronger then all which none can pluck out of Here is the Fold here is the safe dwelling place whither the Lord leadeth and where he preserveth his Lambs and Children and there is not another Now as for him notwithstanding all that he hath done

all things hold fast that which is good verse 21. Further p. 48. he saith Who do you blind Quakers think should be judge of a Prophet that hath a Commission from God Observ What saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 2. 10. The Spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God And again verse 15. The spiritual man discerneth or judgeth all things yet he himself is discerned of no man Yet again p. 48. he saith Is not a true Prophet the Law-giver and ought not every one to submit unto his Law Observ There is but one Law-giver but one King but one Lord but one Master All Prophets and Ministers from him are but his Messengers and Servants not Law-givers The Law cometh forth from the King himself from the great Prophet and Shepherd of the Soul to every Lamb and Sheep in the Covenant as it is written All thy children shall be taught of the Lord and I will write my Law in their hearts and so taught by this Prophet in the new and Living Covenant as that they shall need no other Teacher This was once fulfilled before the Apostacy as is faithfully testified 1 John 2. 27. The Anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same Anointing teacheth you of all thing c. and it is again fulfilled after it blessed be the Name of the holy one of Israel But mind Reader what is the reason that he reviles us above all others calling us blind and the darkest pieces to interpret Scriptures and the cursedst of all Sects and the like but because we stand most in his way because we cannot receive him as a Law-giver because we have received the true Light the true Spirit and Anointing from God which discovereth and denieth him in his very root and ground In p. 50. He makes himself the Judge and the day of Judgement but a day of general Execution wherein Christ shall say Come you blessed and go you cursed He saith there shall be no more pleading with God but this will be all that God will say in the Resurrection Come you blessed and go you cursed Observ Yes there will be more said There will be the reason given publickly why men are blessed or cursed as was testified by Christ himself while he was here on Earth Matth. 25. 35 c. And men shall have liberty to plead as is there expressed verse 44. So that Christ the great Judge is not so bound up as he would bind him up nor are persons to be judged by him absolutely bound up from considering of their Sentence and pleading their cause with him but if they have any thing to say on their own behalfs they shall be equally heard In p. 60. he saith God doth not come down from Heaven upon this Earth to interpret Scriptures to men but this was alwayes Gods practise to commissionate particular men and furnish them with gifts for that purpose and what interpretations of Scriptures they give it is owned of God as if he had done it himself Observ The Apostle saith Every man is to stand or fall to his own Master and bids every man be fully perswaded or assured in his own mind and affirms that whatsoever is not of Faith is sin Rom. 14. 4 5. and verse 23. Nor did Christ deal thus with his Disciples requiring them to receive what ever interpretation of Scripture he would give them but he opened their understanding that they might understand the Scriptures themselves and saith the Spirit of Truth should lead them into all truth Nor did the Apostles thus deal with men but they waited for Gods opening of the true capacity in others and were not lords over mens Faith but Demonstrators of the Truth of God to mens Consciences by his Spirit and as in his sight Again he saith Christ doth not teach every particular man neither by his Spirit nor by voice of words Observ Every man that is truly begotten and new-born to God is born of his Spirit John 3. There is not another begetter and bringer forth of Life in the heart And the Spirit of the Lord in the new Covenant teacheth all its children It was written so of old All thy Children shall be taught of God How taught Why they shall hear and learn of the Father John 6. 45. Thus the Scriptures speak and thus it is witnessed felt and known in the heart blessed be the Name of the Lord. For the children of the Lord are anointed with the holy anointing with the oyl of the same Spirit the same oyl of gladness Psal 45. 7. and Hebr. 2. 11. wherewith Christ was anointed which maketh them also of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord and of deep insight into the mysteries of his Kingdom as they grow up in his life and sweet innocent holy nature Yet again in that page he saith The true and right interpretation of the Scriptures it lieth in those men that God hath chosen anointed and sealed for that purpose and men cannot come to the knowledge of God nor the true meaning of the Scriptures no other way Observ The Gospel is a ministration of the Spirit and Power of the endless life and it consists not in receiving words but in receiving the Spirit from which the good words and precious knowledge comes And he that receives the Spirit and hath the Spirit receiveth and hath that which openeth and giveth entrance not only into words concerning the Kingdom but into the Kingdom it self And the Apostle who had a true Commission from God was not sent to limit men to his interpretation of Scriptures but to turn men to the Light and to the Power which gives to see the Scriptures and spiritual things Acts 26. 18. And the Church of Laodecea was counselled not only to buy gold and raiment but also eye-salve of Christ that therewith they might be enabled to see Rev. 3. 18. They had words from those that were sent by God and much knowledge insomuch as they seemed to themselves to be rich and full but yet they wanted the eye-salve which they were to buy themselves for no man is to offer any thing but at his own cost Yet again in p. 60. he saith The opening of the Scriptures belongs unto commissionated men and not unto Christ himself Observ In the new Covenant God himself is the Shepherd the King the Prophet the Teacher This is not known only from words left upon record by holy men of God but also inwardly felt and witnessed The Eternal Word is nigh nigher then words from commissionated men and teacheth more inwardly and fully then words from men can The same God who creates the heart anew puts his Law into the mind and heart yea his Spirit within Now to this the Gospel Ministers formerly did and still do direct and turn men but did not limit them to words from themselves or to their interpretations of Scriptures as was said

Building Isa 4. 5. In p. 66. he saith The Apostles should be equal in the Kingdom of Glory as they were equal here in the Kingdom of Grace And again p. 67. As there should be no preheminence with the Apostles here in the Kingdom of Grace neither should there be any preheminence in the Kingdom of Glory Yet p. 102. he saith Peter was the head of the Apostles Observ Hath the Head no preheminence in the Body Are the rest of the Members equal with the Head is not this an absolute contradiction In p 78. he saith The Commission of the Apostles was not the Commission of the Spirit Observ Paul saith they were made able Ministers of the new Testament not of the Letter but of the Spirit 2 Cor. 3. 6. What is to be desired more then the new Covenant wherein Life Spirit and Power is received Now the Apostles were made by God able Ministers thereof and the glory of this Covenant and Ministration remaineth verse 11. In p. 93. he saith Death being the First-born of the Law it went forth as a Conqueror of all Life both in God and man Observ The Law is holy just and good and bringeth forth only that which is holy Sin is not of the Law but against the Law and the wages of sin is death Yet neither sin nor death could ever conquer the Life of God but the unconquerable Life and Power have ever reigned over them Gods Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and his Dominion endureth throughout all Ages which Sin nor Death nor Hell could ever conquer That life which Christ did give up none took from him as a Conqueror but he laid it down freely at the requiring of the Father knowing his glorious Power was able to restore and raise it up again In p. 105. he saith The body of man is that Tophet that was ordained of old and the spirit of Reason is that King which must abide in this Tophet Observ The body of man was Gods Temple before it was defiled with sin and is Gods Temple again when it is purified and purged from sin Now him that defileth this Temple of God him will God destroy And Christ said Fear him who after he hath killed hath power to cast into Hell Luk. 12. 5. What is he able to cast into Hell why both body and soul Mat. 10. 28. Then the body of man is not the Tophet or Hell but Tophet is that whereinto the souls and bodies of the wicked are to be cast In p. 116. he saith Eternity did become Time and Time shall become Eternity again Observ Eternity did never become time but is unchangable in its Nature Spirit Life and Beeing for evermore but it brought forth natural and changable things in time which time shall have an end Observations on some Passages in a Book of Lodowick Muggleton 's stiled by him The Neck of the Quakers Broken IN p. 14. he affirmeth That Adam had no part in the begetting of Cain Observ The Scripture saith Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived and bare Cain and said I have gotten a man from the Lord Gen. 4. 1. Here the holy Spirit of God attributeth the begetting of Cain to Adam's knowing his wife Eve but L. M. saith otherwise In p. 15. he saith Whoever is partaker of the seed of Adam may be said to have the Spirit of Christ in them and their spirits to be in him that is Christ dwells in their hearts by Faith Observ The Scriptures distinguish between the first and second Adam None have the Spirit of Christ from or in the first Adam but only from and in the second And the old Adam's seed spirit and nature is to be put off by him that puts on the new and he must be born again of the immortal Seed of Life who receives the Spirit of Life In p. 17. He calls Reason the Devil and p. 29. saith This Devil so much spoken of in Scripture is no other but the spirit of Reason Observ Indeed corrupted reason is of the Devil but pure Reason is of God Man by his fall had his reason corrupted and so became bruitish and unreasonable but by Faith in the redeeming Power he is brought out of the Fall raised from Death to Life and in the new Life hath the true holy righteous Reason restored to him again 2 Thes 3. 2. which Reason is neither the Devil nor of the Devil In p. 22. he saith If God be a person in the form of a man as I am sure he is for I do acknowledge no other God but the man Christ Jesus who is a distinct body of flesh and bone of his own how then can he fill Heaven and Earth with his presence and get in-the Quakers bodies c. Observ Solomon said in prayer to God 2 Chron. 6. 18. which prayer God testified his acceptance of as being from his own Spirit chap. 7. 1 Behold Heaven and the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain thee how much less this House which I have built Again Thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabiteth Eternity what is Eternity whose Name is holy I dwell in the high and holy with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit c. Isa 57. 15. Yet again it is said Ye are the Temple of the Living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them 2 Cor. 6. 16. Is it such a strange thing that God should be in Heaven and in Earth also Is not the Earth his Footstool and are not the feet present in the place on which they tread Was not Christ in Heaven while he was hear on Earth according to his own words No man saith he hath ascendded up to Heaven but he that came down from Heaven the Son of Man which is in Heaven John 3. 13. And cannot God be in Heaven and in Earth too and also by his Spirit in the hearts of his people In p. 23. he saith To say that Christ according to the Flesh was of Abraham is Blasphemy Observ The Apostle said concerning the Jews whom he calls his Brethren and Kinsmen according to the Flesh Rom. 9. 3. of whom as concerning the Flesh Christ came who is over all God blessed for ever Amen verse 5. Did Christ come of the Jews according to the Flesh and did he not come of Abraham according to the Flesh Now lest any should apprehend there may be some difference between according in verse 3 and concerning in verse 5 I shall add this they are both the same in the Greek It is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in both In p. 24 25. he saith None can interpret Scriptures truely but himself Observ All that are children to them God giveth of his Spirit Gal. 4. 6. and they that have the Spirit have that which interprets Scriptures truly which they keeping to cannot be deceived about the interpretation of them But they that keep not to the Anointing within but receive interpretations from men