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A54063	Some questions and answers for the opening of the eyes of the Jews natural that they may see the hope of Israel which hath so long been hid from them : with some questions and answers for the direction, comfort, help and furtherance of God's spiritual Israel in their travels in spirit from spiritual Egypt through the spiritual wilderness to spiritual Canaan ... / by Isaac Penington, the younger.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1661 (1661)	Wing P1201; ESTC R28795	37,117	125

SOME QUESTIO●● AND ANSVVERS For the opening of the Eyes the JEWS NATURAL that they may see the Hope of Israel which hath so long been hid from them WITH Some QUESTIONS and ANSWER● for the Direction Comfort Help and ●●●therance of God's Spiritual Israel in 〈◊〉 Travels in Spirit from Spiritual 〈◊〉 through the Spiritual Wilderness to Spi●●●●al Canaan which is the Land where 〈◊〉 Redeemed Soul flourisheth in the Life 〈◊〉 with God and worshipping him 〈…〉 and Truth By Isaac Penington the you●●●● London Printed for Robert Wilson 〈…〉 Le Grand 1661. The Preface SEveral things hath the Life begotten by the Eternal vertue breathed in me towards my Father for in relation both to my self and others from my Childhood As touching my self First that I might be a Vessel for Him that I might be freed from the bondage of Corruption and brought forth in the Image of his Life Secondly that I might be filled with his Life that I might be satisfied in the presence and with the fulness of the Spring of my Life even that I might have enough of my God in my heart continually Thirdly that he would of his own meer goodness both preserve the Vessel and dwell in it for ever that so my Tenure and Possession of him and fitness for him might be of his Grace of his Love of his good Will of his own Nature depending wholly and altogether on him and not at all on any thing that can be expected from the Creature-hood in its purest State And likewise that if he pleased to use me in any service it might be of him and for him and to him that he would bring me so low in my self that I might not be able to detain any of his Glory and vertue from him but the meanness of the Vessel might still so appear to me and also be so sensibly discerned and acknowledged by all other eyes also that the Excellency of the Power and of the Glory might run back entirely into his pure Bosom Besides these there have been Vehement desires in me concerning others also First towards Mankind in general that they might have an exceeding merciful and powerful day of Visitation even that the whole Earth might be touched with the Power of Life and drawn out of the Darkness O how hath my Soul breathed for poor lost mankind and how hath my Spirit travelled with unutterable pangs and earnestness for unheard of unthought of and altogether unexpected mercy and good will towards the Sons of Men in general Secondly towards my Brethren in Spirit that they might know the day of Redemption and Power in Spirit and not alwayes lie groveling on the Earth and groaning and mourning because of the Lusts and Corruptions but might know Deliverance in Power and might sing the Song of Moses and the Song of the Lamb because of their feeling Victory over Pharaoh and the Dragon and might serve and worship the living God in Spirit and Truth without fear of interruption and Captivity from the Enemy any more Thirdly towards the Jews after the Flesh that their Iniquity might be blotted out their wound healed the pure Eye opened in them and the pure Glory revealed to them that they might know the Shepherd of Israel in Spirit the Spiritual Tents of Jacob the Beauty of the Footsteps of the Spiritual Flock and might Travel out of their Darkness Earthliness and litteral Knowledge into the Land of pure Life Rest Peace and fresh Joy in the living God whereof their Land of Canaan with all the good things thereof was but a shadow and might be Annointed with the fresh oyl of the Salvation of the Messiah and might become indeed an holy Nation yea a Kingdom of Priests to offer up Spiritual Sacrifices on God's spiritual Altar My Soul still breatheth to the Lord and waiteth on him for all these things and as he draweth my Spirit forth so am I ready in Spirit to be serviceable unto him therein These present drawings and openings of my Life in the Questions and Answers following are both towards the Jews in Flesh and also the Jews in Spirit that they may meet in one even in the One Path and Pasture of life where there is one Shepherd one Seed one Flock one Spirit one Beginning one Progress one End in one and the same Circle of Life The Lord my God take it into his own Hand dispose of it for good Mannage and Bless it according to his Pleasure J. P. Some QUESTIONS and ANSWERS for the opening of the eyes of the Jews natural that they may see the Hope of ISRAEL which hath so long been hid from them Question WHat was the Rise of that People the Jewes Ans They came of Abraham after the Flesh who was God's Friend whom God took from his Father's House and from his Native Country where he was worshipping and serving Idols to be the Stock and Pattern of the Faithful both of the Jews according to the Flesh and of the Jews in Spirit Of this Root of this Stock came this People according to the Flesh who were an Holy Nation a Circumcised People a Sanctified People outwardly and as long as their day lasted were the Beloved of God the Pitied the Pardoned the Redeemed Ones even until the Shadows were finished and the Season came for the Substance to appear and be set up in the World whereof they had the first offer also and out of whom was the first gathering for the Spiritual building But they generally hardening their hearts and cleaving to the Wisdom and Knowledge which their wise Ones had taught them from their mis-understanding the Letter of the Scriptures missed of the Spirit Rebelled against the Redeeming Power and so lost their share in the Inward Glory and by God's Righteous hand were cut off from their outward also their day being spent and the Blood not onely of the Prophets but of the Son and Heir himself also required at their hands Quest How came this People to be the chosen People at first and so long to continue such Answ It was not for their Righteousness not for their Loveliness or plyableness to God above other People but because it pleased the Lord freely to love them and to pitch upon them for the People of his Choice after the Flesh in the free Covenant which he made with Abraham The Earth is the Lord 's with the fulness thereof and he may chuse whom he will to fill with his Inward and Spiritual Glory even with the manifestations of his pure Love Life and Presence and he may also chuse whom he will to make outwardly or typically Beloved Great and Glorious He chose Abraham freely he gave to Abraham an Heart to follow him he gave him the Faith and Obedience which made him accepted with him and he chose his Seed after the Spirit to be his Eternal Heir and his Seed after the Flesh to be his Temporary Heir Thus of Isaac in Spirit came the Children of the Promise in

Messiah where the Law of Life is Written not in Tables of stone or outward writings of the Letter but in the heart by the Spirit There they shall be cleansed by inward Water receive the inward Circumcision and Mark of the inward Jew be sprinkled with the everlasting Blood of the Lamb and taught to offer up the spiritual Sacrifice and shall hear the Voice which will tell them of the Way and which will lead them in Paths they have not known There the spiritual Seed the spiritual Israel shall find the Shepherd of Israel who leads into the Land of Life puts forth his Sheep into the Pastures of Life gives them of the living Streams to drink begetting them as Heirs of and bringing them up in the everlasting Power and Dominion of the Life Quest How may old Israel enter into this Path and so become new Israel Answ By waiting on the Lord for the closing of that Eye which is wise according to the Flesh and for the opening of that Eye which is at first weak in Spirit There must be a low beginning Israel must know and not despise the Day of small things if ever he will grow up into the Riches and Inheritance of this Glory There is a Light in every heart which gives a sound in the natural Vessel which is very hardly at first distinguishable from the natural till by obedience and subjection thereto its living Touch Vertue and Power comes to be felt and distinguished but in the Meek Humble Believing and Obidient it daily appears more and more and makes it self more clearly manifest to them who are walking on unto the Kingdom and Inheritance in it while others are disputing about it Quest How may Israel believe and become subject to the Light Answ When there is a drawing felt in the heart either to good or against evil he must not dispute concerning it on the one hand nor run on in the forwardness on the other for both these wayes the breathings of the Spirit on him and springings up of the good Seed in him are easily quenched but in the Fear he is to trust himself with what his heart certainly feels in the drawing Vertue and in the Humility to give up the Members to the Good and to withhold them from the Evil waiting for strength from the Fountain of strength towards both By this means there is a Travell and removal out of the corruption and filth of the heart into the pure holy Law Nature Image and Will of God Quest Where doth God find the heart when he first visiteth it with his Light Answ In Egypt in the Darkness in the Bonds and Captivity of Death Quest What doth the Lord do with it there Answ He Exerciseth it a while there till he hath made it fit for a Wilderness-state Quest What doth he do with it then Ans He bringeth it into the Wilderness which he hath fitted it for Quest What doth he do with it in the Wilderness Answ He prepareth it for and leadeth it towards the Land of Life Quest What doth he do with it then Ans He giveth it an entrance into the everlasting Kingdom which is the Land of Life according as he hath prepared and fitted it That which is new-begotten new-created and formed new-born in the Messiah's Eternal Light findeth an Entrance into and an Habitation in the Light and is not turned back into the Land of Darkness it abiding in the Vertue and Principle of its Life although sometimes it may be exercised with the Darkness for its further advantage Thou art our Habitation from everlasting to everlasting saith the Child of Light unto the Father of Spirits in all Ages and Generations Now that Israel after the Flesh may the better understand the Path of the spiritual Israel in the way of Redemption by the powerful visitations of the Light of the Messiah in their hearts and Consciences may know the Gospel of his Salvation which is able to effect that which the Law of Moses could not because of the weakness of the Flesh on their parts let them in fear and silence of the natural wisdom and in waiting on the Lord in Spirit consider these Questions and Answers following relating to spiritual Israel Some Questions and Answers for the Direction Comfort Help and Furtherance of God 's Spiritual Israel in their Travels in Spirit from Spiritual Egypt through the Spiritual Wilderness to Spiritual Canaan which is the Land where the Redeemed Soul flourisheth in the Life walking with God and Worshiping Him in Spirit and Truth Quest WHat is the Gospel Answ A good Message or glad Tydings to man in the fallen estate concerning a Promise of Redemption out of it Quest Is man then in a fallen Estate Answ His present Temper Constitution Disposition and whole Course upon the least touch of God upon his Spirit do in some measure discover his fall unto him though the insensibleness which is come upon him by his grievous wound and death through the fall maketh him very unapt to take notice thereof Quest What was his Estate before his fall Answ A State of Glory and Blessedness wherein he came pure out of the hands of his Creator was fitted for his use service enjoyment and delight even for him to appear or disappear in and exercise according to his pleasure Quest Wherein did his Glory and Blessedness consist Ans Chiefly in these four things to wit In the Light in the Life in the Liberty in which the Vessel was formed and in the Indwelling and appearing of the Creator there according to his pleasure Quest Open this a little further Answ Man was made a Vessel of Light a Vessel of Life a Vessel of pure Freedom He was formed in the Eternal Image and had a pure being in that Image He was Light in the Lord living in the Lord free unto all Good and from all Evil in the Lord. This was the state of his being at first and thus was he made in the Image a pure resemblance of the Eternal Purity and Blessedness but besides this he had the Eternal Life the Eternal Substance the Eternal Purity it self dwelling in the Vessel shining in it and manifesting it self from it according to its pleasure Quest How came man to fall from this Estate Answ Not willingly not of an inclination of his own but he was deceived through the subtilty of Temptation to entertain a desire of enlarging his blessedness out of the limits of the will of his Creator Quest How could such a Temptation enter man he being Pure and Holy inclined to Good and against Evil after the Image of his Creator Answ Man was not made to enjoy a Perfection in himself separate from his Creator or to live of himself but by dependance Now though he had no inclination in him not to depend or to seek a Life in himself out of the Fountain yet there was a Capacity of so doing before which Capacity the Tempter laid his bait of advancing