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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

enter into Isa 26. Their outward Kings in that Land and particularly David were but Types of the spiritual King the spiritual David whom God would raise up to the spiritual People who should seek the Lord their God and David their King who shall be their spiritual shepherd and ruler whom God hath appointed to fed them in the Integrity of his Heart and to guide them by the skilfulness of his hands who is King of Righteousness tnd Peace inwardly and who ministers Righteousness and Peace to the sheep and lambs of his pastures Their outward Priests even their High-Priests were but a representation of the great High-Priest of God who was to be a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedeck Psalm 110. Their outward Covenant made with them from the outward mount Sinai upon the giving of the Law and holy Statutes and Ordinances by which they were to live and enjoy God in their outward state was but a shadow of the inward and spiritual Covenant the new and everlasting Covenant which God makes with his inward and spiritual people in the latter dayes Their outward Law as 〈◊〉 written engrav'n in tables of stones was but a shadow of the inward Law which God puts into the Children of the new Covenant insomuch that they need not go outwardly to learn the Knowledge of God or his will or law but the inward Israel find it inwardly written within There the Isles who wait for the law of the spirit of Life for the Law of the Messiah receive the Ministration of the Law in the spirit and Power of the Messiah which they wait for Their outward Mount Zion on which the outward Temple was built by Solomon that wise King that righteous King that peaceable King was a figure of the inward Mountain whereupon the inward House is built in the dayes of the Gospel in the dayes of the Messiah And to this Mountain are the spiritual people to come up and worship And this is the Zion and Jerusalem even inward and spiritual from which the Law and Word of the Lord go forth in the dayes of the Messiah And the spiritual house of Jacob combind or agree together to walk in the Light of the Lord who sends forth his Light and Truth and leads them to his holy Hill and to his Tabernacles Their outward Tabernacle and Temple sanctified by God for him to dwell and appear in was a shadow of God's inward dwelling-place in man I will tabernacle in them God dwelleth not in Houses or Temples made with hands that is not the place of his rest as saith the Prophet Isaiah but the high and lofty One that inhabits Eternity whose Throne is in Heaven and the Earth his Footstool he dwelleth also with him that is of an humble and contrite spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the spirit of the contrite ones Their outward Sabbaths were not the lasting Sabbath or Rest of the Gospel but given them for a sign but the day of Redemption from sin the day of resting from sin the day of ceasing from the Works of the flesh the day wherein God is all doth all by his spirit power inwardly and wherein he alone is exalted this is the day of rest which the Lord hath made for the spiritual Israel and which they are glad of and rejoice in So their Incense and Sacrifices were not the lasting Incense and Sacrifices but shadows thereof The prayers of the Saints when God pours out the spirit of prayer and supplication upon them and they pray to him therein that is the Incense Let my prayer be directed before thee as Incense and the lifting up of my Hands as the evening Sacrifice And this was the Incense and a pure Offering whic● in every place was to be offered up to God's Name among the Gentiles when his Name should be great among them as Malachy foretels And what said David of old when God's spirit and the holy vision was upon him Sacrifice and Offering thou didst not desire mine Ears hast thou opened Burnt Offering and Sin-Offering hast thou not required Then said I lo I come in the volmn of the book it is written of me I delight to do thy Will O my God yea thy Law is in the midst of my Bowels The Sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit rent your hearts nd not your garments and turn to the Lord your God A broken and a contrite Heart O God thou wilt not despise The offering Praise to God from a sincere Heart and the ordering of the Conversation aright these are the Sacrifices well-pleasing to God for sacrifices were not the thing which God mainly required of outward Israel but this OBEY MY VOICE And Obedienc is more acceptable then all other sacrifices and to hearken then the Fat of the choicest Rams Besides those outward sacrifices could not remove or take away sin from the Conscience but he that came to do the will and to put and end to those sacrifices and oblations which were but outward imperfect he doth both wash and take away sins from within and also bring in Everlasting Righteousness where his Light shines and his pure Life springs inwardly in the Heart And this is the substance of all the shadows even the Light eternal the Word eternal the Son of the living God who is Light as the Father is Light the Word nigh in the Mouth and Heart the Word of the New Covenant the which Moses directed your Fathers to Deut. 30. And by which the Lord speaketh and hath spoken throughout the world Psalm 50.1 and teacheth every man that hearkeneth to his voice to do justly love Mercy and walk humbly with his God as it is expressed by the Prophet Micah Now to you Jews of the outward line of Abraham whose return to the Lord my soul most earnestly desireth after and for which I have most vehemently and wrestlingly prayed to the Lord are some few weighty Queries upon my heart Query 1. How came David to pant so after the living God like the Hart or Hind after the water-brooks Was it not from the quickning Virtue of this inward word which Moses the man of God had directed the mind to Read Psalm 119. and see how he breathed for Quicknings from this word on which all depends And if ye come to experience this word and the quickning virtue of it and follow the Lord on therein ye will soon come to know the day of the Messiah and the glory of his Kingdom which is not outward transitory and of a perishing nature but inward spiritual and eerlasting as David well knew and spake sensibly of Psalm 145. and elsewhere Qu. 2. What are the waters which every thirsty soul is invited to Are they not the waters of the Messiah Are they not waters that flow out of the wells of salvation Isa 12. Do not the Spiritual Israel draw spiritual water out of the wells of the Saviour in the Dayes

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-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