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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54071	To such as are not satisfied with a profession without the true life and power but have sincere desires in their hearts after the Lord himself, and a willingness to be acquainted with his pure living truth, and with the souls true guide and leader, this experience is in my heart to express unto you, which we have all-along witnessed in our travels out of the dark corrupt land, into the land of life and purity.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1668 (1668)	Wing P1212; ESTC R31104	8,425	12

him in and become subject to his Power he doth not confess Christ as he ought to do and as God requireth of him O that ye could learn thus to know Christ and thus to confess him for until ye thus know him ye cannot thus confess him and your knees must first bow at his Name before your tongues can rightly confess him to the glory of God the Father For if ye will indeed glorify the Father ye must bow to the Son who is the Light wherein God dwels in the shinings whereof he appears to and visits the sons of men And as the Son himself is spiritual so is the Light wherewith he visits dark man His Law is spiritual able to convert the soul of any man in whose heart it is writ and to make wise the most simple among men unto Salvation For the Law of God writ in the heart is from the Covenant of Life and delivers and preserves from the law of sin and death having the Light Power and Spirit of Christ in and with it from whom it comes Now if ye would know these things clearly certainly and infallibly wait to feel some touches some drawings some convictions of Gods Spirit upon your hearts And then dispute not against them but immediately become subject so far as the Light and Drawings of the Father encline and lead the mind and then ye shall see what he is that draws and of what nature his drawings are And if once ye come to feel the preciousness of his Ointment and to partake of it receiving it and following it it will bring you into the pure Virginity which loves and longs after the Name that anoints with the pure living Oyl Friends I was once where ye now are and in that day I also through error and mistake called the Light wherewith Christ hath enlightened man natural as ye now do But the Lord hath since shewed me that it was not the true birth of life in me which so called it and it is also manifested to me in his Spirit of Truth which deceives not that it is not the true birth in you which so judge of it O that ye were born of the Spirit and in it knew the names of things from their nature and might be taught of the Father to worship in the Son which ye can never do till ye come into the Son's Light and that is the Sons Light even that wherewith he hath enlightned men that they might believe in the Father through him The Scriptures or any words spoken or written are not the Light it self but testimonies concerning the Light Now that which ye are to come into and to dwell and abide in is the Light it self which Light was before any words that testifie of it and is the substance of all the Shadows and the end of all the Testimonies concerning it He is Alpha and Omega the Begining and the End of the New Creation of God O that ye so knew him That from which the Scriptures came is the Thing the Life the Spirit the Power it self which is able to write inwardly as well as outwardly And he that knows the Thing and is led to the Thing by the inward writing which is the Testimony of Jesus the Spirit of Prophesie ●e by the Testimony of Jesus by the Spirit of Prophesie is led to the Holy Power which he believing in it prevails to save him out of the contrary spirit and power And this the Gentiles without the Law the Jews under the Law and the Believers under Grace had spritually all one and the same Way and Path of Life unto Salvation and God will be clear and just in judging them all according thereunto who had all some manifestation of the Gospel and Power which saves according to the dispensation of the good pleasure of the free giver And mens perishing in the time of every dispensation is not for want of Light and Power from God but from mens withdrawing and apostatizing from the Light and Power which in every Dispensation of Life stretched forth its Hand and Arm sufficiently to gather and save There is one thing more in my heart unto you at this time which is Concerning applying the Promises THe Promises of God are great and precious and give to partake of the Divine Nature those that wait upon the Lord in the Faith and Obedience of his Truth Now there are estates and conditions to which they do belong and there are estates and conditions to which they do not belong and if any one apply any Promise to himself he not being in that estate and condition to which that promise belongs he deceives his Soul and sucks not in the true sweetness and comfort of the Promise but of his own imaginary apprehensions concerning the Promise There is a state of wounding of judging of Gods pleading with the Soul because of Sin and Transgression Now he that breaks and wounds he alone can bind up and heal and the Lord is to be waited upon in the way of his judgments until he see meet to bind up and heal Now the Lord heals by the same Spirit and power wherewith he wounds but it is hard to lye under the judgment to bear the indignation of the Lord and so keep the wound which he makes open till he pour in the Oyl and heal For there is that near which will be offering to heal before the season and will be bringing in promises and applying promises otherwise then the Spirit of the Lord intendeth or applyeth them Now this is diligently to be watched against that the hurt of the soul judged and wounded by the Spirit of the Lord be not healed slightly and peace spoken to it and an expectation and hope raised in it which is not of the Lord. But this is the right way even to give up to feel that which wounds to receive the woundings of thy souls friend lie low before him in the wounded state waiting up●n him in the way of his judgments and righteous indignation till the same that wounded speak peace For the same is to speak peace and not another I the Lord wound and I heal I kill and I make alive Judgment is mine and Mercy is mine and they both issue from my lips see Isa 12.1 So every one that would not be deceived about nor misapply the promises wait to feel that in you which leads into the condition to which the promise belongs and to be led into and kept in the condition by it And then the same that leads into the condition will apply the promise to him who is in the condition the ear being open to him harkning to the Lord waiting what he will speak who speaks peace to his people in his seasons and having the ear shut against the voice of the unrighteous troubler of the souls of Gods Heritage Yea he that applyeth the promises to the soul having brought it into the state to which they belong he also will

To such as are not satisfied with a Profession without the true Life and Power but have sincere desires in their hearts after the Lord himself and a willingness to be acquainted with his pure living Truth and with the Souls true Guide and Leader This Experience is in my heart to express unto you which we have all-along witnessed in our travels out of the dark corrupt Land into the Land of Life and Purity WE have still found the willer the runner the self-striver the wise comprehending part c. left behind and the Grace of God alone able to lead towards him and the birth which is of and by grace still to obtain the mercy And Christ is our life and in the union with his Spirit lies all our ability and strength and that knowledge of Christ which we witness to be life eternal we did not meet with whilest we thought to have it in the Scriptures but it hath been all along revealed to us by Gods Spirit so that we can truly say flesh and blood did not reveal the Son to us but the Father Yet that which the Scriptures testify concerning Christ is exactly true according as is there related and is so acknowledged and really owned by us though we obtained not our knowledge of Christ by the letter but by receiving a Principle of Life from God and coming into union with his Spirit we came to the true knowledg and owning of the letter which as it came from the life so can only be rightly read and understood in the life from which it came So that he that is out of that cannot but err concerning the letter and misjudge concerning the things of God whereas he that is guided by lives in Gods Spirit receiving his knowledge there cannot err concerning the Spirit or concerning the Letter but hath that within him which gives to him and preserves him in the true sense and understanding of both Now friends this is an excellent thing indeed To come to and be acquainted with and receive that which the Scriptues testifie of to wit to receive Christ to feel union with him in his Spirit to enter into the new and holy Agreement with God into the everlasting Covenant of Life and Peace to feel the partition-wall broken down and the wall of salvation reared up and the defence which is thereby To find the Law of God the Law of his Life the Law of the New Creation written in the heart the pure fear planted there by God which keepeth the mind and spirit from departing from him to have his Spirit put within causing to walk in his Wayes and to keep his Statutes and Judgements and do them and so to have union and fellowship with the Lord in that which is pure and living of him in Christ the new and living way which was before the fall and leads the obedient out of the fall even beyond Adams state into himself who never fell in whom is no sin nor erring no not for the waifaring man though a fool who often erred and wandered before he came thither but there the Fathers hand even the hand of the eternal power is felt which none can pluck out of O that ye knew the infallible Leader and were turned from darkness to the Light and did believe therein and from the power of Satan unto God that ye through his Spirit might undeniably witness the mysteries of his Kingdom and partake of and enjoy that with his Love Grace and Mercy plentifully distributes among his Children that wait upon him in his own way under the holy ordering of his Spirit which was long harped at and longed after by many of us but we could never meet with it till the Lord in his Mercy caused the Light of his day to shine into our hearts which chased away the Darkness of the night and made the things of the day manifest Are ye of the house of Jacob are ye of the right Seed are ye of the true breathers after Gods holiness after the Life and Righteousness of his Son O then come ye know acknowledg receive and wait to walk in the Light of the Lord and do not joyn to that in you which is separated from and knoweth not the Light of the Lord but opposeth it And friends I beseech you take heed in this point for he that denieth refuseth opposeth speaketh evill or thinketh hardly of any thing that is indeed of Christ doth it to Christ himself in Christs account that is Christ looketh upon it as if he had denied him refused him opposed him spoke evill of him c. and it will be so laid to his charge in the day of the Lord and indeed such is my love to you and such my desire after your eternal good and welfare that I would not have you stumble at the Light and Power of Life which the Lord hath revealed and stretched out in this day of his Mercy to gather and save with but feel the gathering by it from all that scattereth from the Lord with the preservation which is thereby and the effecting of that in your spirits which it is able to effect as it comes to manifest it self unto you and to put forth its strength in you So wait for the gathering unto the Light the Light of the everlasting Day of God and into the Power which is able to redeem and defend the Soul from all that is contrary to God And when ye are there be diligent and faithful to the Lord and feel O daily wait to feel from him the unclothing of your spirits from all their own unrighteousness yea from all their own righteousness also which are but as filthy rags before the Lord even of the same nature with the unrighteousness that ye may be clothed upon with the new and living Garment wherein there is neither spot nor wrinkle nor any such thing For they that are of Christ and in Christ do as really put on the Nature the Spirit the Garment of the second Adam as ever they did put off the old garment nature and spirit This is from one who uprightly and singly desireth your union with the Lord in his pure Truth and holy Anointing and your disunion from all that is contrary to him Isaac Penington A Query added with its Answer Query WHat is the true Confession of Christ even that Confession which ariseth from the knowledge which is Life Eternal Answ Friends I witness it to be this A Confession of his Nature a Confession of his Spirit a Confession of his Life a Confession of his Power To confess the present living appearance of Christ that is to confess Christ Behold saith he I stand at the door and knock He that heareth his voice acknowledgeth him letteth him in subjecteth to his Truth and holy Spirit he confesseth him But though a man should acknowledge and confess all that is recorded in the Scriptures concerning him yet if he know not his knocks so as to let