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id: A90400
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
title: To the Army
date: 1659
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summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A90400) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163595) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f22[12]) To the Army Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A90400 of text R211348 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.22[12]).


id: A54054
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1659
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title:
  Some considerations proposed to the City of London, and the Nation of England to calm their spirits and prepare them to wait for what the Lord is bringing about, that they may not run readily into their own ruin and destruction, and by this extraordinary heat of their spirits kindle that fire, which will soon devour them. With a short exhortation to them, relating to their true settlement, and the removal of that which hinders it.

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A54054 of text R218737 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P1190). no Some considerations proposed to the City of London, and the Nation of England to calm their spirits, and prepare them to wait for what the L Penington, Isaac 1659 1231 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 B The rate of 8 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2005-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-11 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-01 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2006-01 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Some Considerations proposed to the City of London , and the Nation of England , to calm their spirits , and prepare them to Wait for what the Lord is bringing about , that they may not run headily into their own ruin and destruction , and by this extraordinary heat of their spirits kindle that fire , which will soon deuour them .


id: A90390
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
title: An epistle to all such as observe the seventh-day of the week for a sabbath to the Lord.
date: 1660
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  So that here , in the Gospell , Christ being come , the new Covenant and Law in the Spirit takes place , and not the old Covenant or Law in the letter . Penington, Isaac 1660 1783 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 B The rate of 6 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words.


id: A54055
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1659
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title:
  Some considerations proposed to this distracted nation of England concerning the present design and work of God therein, upon their submitting whereto doth their settlement alone depend, and not upon any form of government, or change of governors, as that spirit which seeketh their ruin, tempteth them to believe.

summary:
  no Some considerations proposed to this distracted nation of England, concerning the present design and work of God therein, upon their submitt Penington, Isaac 1659 2215 2 0 0 0 0 0 9 B The rate of 9 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2005-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-11 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-02 Taryn Hakala Sampled and proofread 2006-02 Taryn Hakala Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Some Considerations proposed to this distracted nation of England concerning the present design and work of God therein , upon their submitting whereto doth their Settlement alone depend , and not upon any form of Government , or change of Governors , as that Spirit which seeketh their ruin , tempteth them to believe . Some considerations proposed to this distracted nation of England concerning the present design and work of God therein, upon their submitting whereto doth their settlement alone depend, and not upon any form of government, or change of governors, as that spirit which seeketh their ruin, tempteth them to believe.


id: A54040
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1671
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words: 3373
sentence: 118
flesch: 69
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title:
  An enquiry after truth and righteousness, and after the people whom the Lord establisheth and will establish therein in some queries on Isa. 58, and also on chapter 54.

summary:
  How tender was God of I●rael after the flesh in the day of his delivering them , see 1 ●hron . Surely they who are taught of God , have peace from him and in him , and are established in the righteous Spirit and life of his Son , they are like mount Sion , which cannot be shaken or removed , by all the Terrors and oppressing Devices of the ungodly .


id: A54029
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1661
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words: 3885
sentence: 188
flesch: 75
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title:
  Concerning the worship of the living God which he teacheth Israel his people who know him to be the only true God, and the worship which he teacheth them, to be the only true spiritual worship with some questions and answers relating to conversion, and to tenderness of conscience.

summary:
  Hath it relation to any outward place ? Or is it in the building , which God hath reared up in my heart by his Spirit ? which building stands in , and is comprehended in his Spirit . So the Word of God ( whether of Exhortation or Instruction ) is a Gift , which is to be waited for , and then to be given forth in the life and strength of that Spirit , which causeth it to spring .


id: A54023
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1660
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words: 4082
sentence: 110
flesch: 61
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title:
  An answer to that common objection against the Quakers, that they condemn all but themselves with a loving and faithful advertisement to the nation and powers thereof.

summary:
  But this is our lamentation , that forms and wayes of worship abound , but the Puritan-Principle , the Puritanspirit is lost and drowned in them all ; and that men are hardened against our testimony , not from the remainders of the simplicity in them , but because they are erred from the simplicity , and fallen in league with another spirit , which hath lain lurking in forms of knowledge and worship ( to tempt aside from the simplicity , and to hide the sight of the life and power from the panting soul ) all this night of the Apostacy . Nay all persons who singly wait upon the Lord , in the simplicity and sincerity of their hearts , whether under any form , or out of forms ( that matters little to us ) are very dear unto us in the Lord .


id: A54064
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1677
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sentence: 201
flesch: 77
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title:
  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. Written by one, who hath been sorely darkned and distressed, for a long season, but at length mercifnlly [sic] enlightned & comforted by the hand which afflicted & distressed him, Isaac Penington.

summary:
  Is it a Fear taught by the Precepts of men , or a Fear springing from the Root of Life within ? Can any who receive this Fear from God , and who are preserved in the sense of it ( and in the holy Awe and Reverence which it produceth ) depart from the holy , tender , living God and Father ? O how Happy is he , who hath received the true Understanding from God , which cannot be deceived ; wherein he hath the Evidence and Demonstration of God's Spirit concerning them , and knoweth the Truth as it is in Jesus ; as it is in his Life , in his Spirit , in his Power , who ministers after the Power of an Endless Life unto all his Sheep , wo are returned to the Shepherd and Bishop of the Soul , who hear his Voice and follow him , wherever he goes or leads , who is an eternal Shepherd and eternal Door of Life to his , and leads to precious Pastures , and sweet still Sreams of Life , and is giving the sweet Food , Rest and pure Pleasure of Eternal Life unto his abundantly , even as it is his Will , that after their many sore Trials , Exercises and Travels ( & Faithfulness to him therein ) they should abundantly possess and enjoy it .


id: A54074
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1660
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title:
  A warning of love from the bowels of life, to the several generations of professors of this age that they may awaken and turn towards the life, to be truly cleansed & saved by its powerful living virtue, before the storm of wrath break forth and the over-flowing scourge overtake them, which will sweep away the strongest and most wel-built refuge of lies, and sink those souls (even into the pit of misery) which are there found, when the storm comes : held forth in four propositions, assertions, or considerations concerning man in his lost estate, and his recovery out of it.

summary:
  There is a flaming sword which turns every way , to keep the way of the Tree of Life ; insomuch as man can by no means come at the way to the true life , nor enter into the strait and narrow Path that leads thereto , but as he is cut to the heart , his life let out , and as he dyes , and comes into unity with that which slayes him , and keeps the way from him . Let man catch all the knowledge that ever sprang from the Life ; If he could beleeve ( I mean in the mans part ) all that ever the Life spake , if it were so that he could perform all that ever the Life called for , yet this would not heal him at all :


id: A54068
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1662
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title:
  Three queries propounded to the King and Parliament, in the fear of the Most High, and in the tender love of my soul to them

summary:
  O Dear Friends ▪ hearken to the Voice of the Love of my heart , which speaketh thus unto you ; O wait , wait to feel somewhat of God , somewhat of his Divine Life and Power stirring in your hearts , and travel ( in the Light and leadings of it ) out of the earthly nature , leaving the corruption of man behind , which makes you miserable , and putting on the Holiness and Righteousness of the Nature of God day by day , which will make you happy , as ye are made partakers of it : But if ye will set up a form to stop the power and progress of the Spirit of the Lord , in the hearts of his people in this Nation , and not mind the power of Religion your selves , but with vehemency go about to force others to your form ( which ye cannot truly say is of God , but of man ) in this we cannot close with you , but must be content in the will of God to suffer under you , the time which the Lord hath allotted , which ye cannot go beyond . And blessed for ever be the Name of the Lord our God , who hath made us acquainted with that Life and Power , which was before all forms and wayes of Religion and Worship of man's inventing , and which will be after them ; and who hath hitherto born up our spirits in the Testimony , which he hath given us to bear to his living Truth and Worship , and who we doubt not but will yet bear us up , even to a Conquest in his Spirit over all that he hath called us forth to testifie against .


id: A54071
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1668
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flesch: 62
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title:
  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.

summary:
  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 . O happy is he , who is come through all his own imaginings and conceivings about the things of God , and his own apprehensions about Scriptures and promises , and is come into the thing it self , into the Spirit of Life ( into the Truth and into the Power ) and who walks with God therein , daily witnessing the Redemption which is of him , through his Son Jesus Christ , who is known and partook of in the pure quickning Spirit , and not otherwise .


id: A54060
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
title: Some queries concerning the order and government of the church of Christ
date: 1663
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summary:
  And in coming back from this wisdom to the pure Wisdom , from the pretended measure of life to the true Measure , and becoming tender , meek , cool and still in it , they shall there feel their error from the Spirit and Power of the Lord , and therein own their Condemnation therefor from him , and also justifie them who have abode in the Power , and been guided by the Spirit and pure Measure of Life , which is from God and in God , while they have departed from it . Whether the Body and common Members of the Churches , were not to hearken to these ( He that knoweth God , heareth us , 1 Joh. 4. 6. ) to obey them in the Lord , to submit to this Ministry , and their work in it , in the Lord , to receive the Word of Truth and holy Exhortations and Admonitions milked out by these to them from the Breast of Life ? And were not they that did hearken and obey , commended ? and were not the other that were not subjected , but slighted them and their Ministry and Authority , testified against as disorderly and unruly ?


id: A54042
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1664
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title:
  Many deep considerations have been upon my heart concerning the state of Israel both past, present, and to come, some of which I find drawings to communicate : together with some questions and answers concerning unity.

summary:
  And from this let all wait for the daily-new and living knowledge , and for the ordering of their conversations and practises in that Light ( and drawings thereof ) and in that simplicity and integrity of heart , which the Spirit of Life at present holdeth forth and worketh in them ; and the Life will be felt , and the Name of the Lord praised in all the tents of Jacob , & through all the habitations of his Israel : and there will be but one heart , & one soul , and one spirit , and one mind , and one way and power of Life : and what is already wrought in every heart , the Lord will be acknowledged in and his Name praised , and the Lord's season contentedly waited , for his filling up of what is wanting any where . I testifie ( in the sence of Life ) that the wisdom of man , yea the wisdom of Israel corrupted , cannot but despise and turn from this .


id: A54050
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1670
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flesch: 64
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title:
  A salutation of love and tender good-vvill to the commissioners of the peace for the county of Bucks, and such others in that county, and also throughout the nation, as are concerned in the contents hereof.

summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 30572)


id: A54028
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1667
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words: 7420
sentence: 231
flesch: 67
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title:
  Concerning the sum or substance of our religion, who are called Quakers, and the exercises and travels of our spirits therein

summary:
  If the wrong birth , the wrong wisdom , the wrong understanding be at work ; it can gather but that which will feed and strengthen it self : and if thou beest not in Christ , and dost not read in Christ , the vail is not taken away from thee : ( for the vail is only done away in him : ) but thou readest and walkest in the oldness of thy apprehensions upon the Letter , and not in the newness of the Spirit ; and so knowest neither the Scriptures nor the Power of God , what ever thou professest to men , or dreamest concernning thy self . Yea , he that is thus one with Christ in the Spirit , cannot exclude himself , nor is excluded by God from the advantage of any thing , nor every thing Christ did in that Body of Flesh .


id: A54070
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1666
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flesch: 54
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title:
  To friends in England, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, New-England, Barbado's, or any where else where the Lord God shall order this to come, in the tender spirit of life and love, greeting

summary:
  Dear Friends , the Lord give you a true sence , that in his Light , Life , Wisdom and Presence ye may justifie what is of him , discerning between things that differ , and not call any thing that is evil ( as the tenderness which is out of him is ) good , nor any thing that is good ( as the judgment and severity which is of him is ) evil , but may rightly distinguish between the nature of things , knowing every thing that is of God , and owning it in its place . Now , that the Enemy would endeavour to entangle the minds of the Redeemed , and to draw them back from the Lord , and his pure measure of Life in the heart , towards Perdition again , that is not to be questioned , it being his Nature and Property so to do ; and that he would use , not only his strength , but also all his subtilty & deceiveableness to affect this ( his aim being at the Church and Redeemed of God , more then at the World ) appearing as an Angel of Light , in motions like Light , in wayes like Life , this is not to be doubted neither ; for how else could he gain upon that , whose eye is towards , and whose aim is after the Lord ?


id: A54065
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1667
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sentence: 233
flesch: 65
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title:
  Some things of great weight and concernment to all briefly opened, and held forth from a true sense and understanding, for the healing of the ruines and breaches, which the enemy of mankind hath made in mans souls, as 1. Some assertions concerning the principle and way of life, 2. Some further directions to Christ, the principle and fountain of life, 3. The end of Christ's manifestation, His Salvation, and whom He saves, 4. Three questions answered concerning justification, 5. Of the pure, constant, eternal, unchangeable nature of God's Truth / written in the time of my confinement in Alisbury when love was working in me, and the life of God in me travelling and wrestling with the Lord for the salvation of others, Isaac Penington.

summary:
  2. That which gives the true capacity is a Principle of Life from God , and there alone and no where else can man meet with it and receive it . Who would not buy it ? who would not sell all for it ? who would not dig in the Field where this Treasure is hid , until he find it ? The Field is near thee , O man , which thou are to purchase and dig in , and must feel torn up by the Plough of God in some measure , before this Pearl or Treasure appear to thee : and thou must take up and bear the Yoke and Cross of Christ , until all be bowed down and crucified in thee which is contrary to its nature before it be polished in thee , and thou come to behold and enjoy , its riches and ever lasting fulness .


id: A54069
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1661
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sentence: 214
flesch: 61
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title:
  To all such as complain that they want power, not applying themselves to yeild [sic] subjection to what of God is made manifest in them, upon a pretence of waiting for power so to do

summary:
  [sic] subjection to what of God is made manifest in them, upon a pretence of waiting for power so to do Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679. [sic] subjection to what of God is made manifest in them, upon a pretence of waiting for power so to do Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.


id: A54066
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1668
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8811
sentence: 238
flesch: 61
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title:
  Some things relating to religion, proposed to the consideration of the Royal Society, (so termed) to wit, concerning the right ground of certainty therein, concerning tenderness of spirit, and persecution, a query concerning separation, concerning washing away sin from the conscience, and the garment of salvation, and what it is that is covered therewith : likewise, some questions and answers concerning the church of the New-Covenant, the rock of foundation whereon it is built, and its preservation by and upon the rock : with some queries concerning the scattered and hidden estate of the church, and concerning that church which got up in the view of the world, instead thereof, and was acknowledged by the world as if she had been the true church, though indeed and truth she was not so : whereunto are added, some queries to professors, who speak of high attainments, &c. / written by ... Isaac Penington.

summary:
  Whether after the Apostacy from the Spirit , Life and Power of the Apostles , and the getting up of the Antichristian state , Church and Worship , there must not of necessity be a separation from all these , before there can be a recovery of the Life and Power again , and of the true Church-state , which was brought forth in the daies of the Apostles ? Must there not be a perfect coming out of the corrupt state ( in the whole nature , several parts and degrees of it ) before there can be a restoration to and witnessing of the true and pure state ? Must not the Christians now come out of all the Antichristian Inventions and Churches , as well as the Christians of old came out of all the Heathenish worships , yea out of the Jewish worship and Church ( which once was of God ) before they can become an holy building and habitation to God in the spirit ? And if an Angel from Heaven , or any Man or Church on Earth , so interpret any Scripture , as to hold forth any such thing , that any else besides Christ is the Rock , they plainly shew that they are erred from the truth , and that their interpretation is of their own private Spirit , and not that publick Spirit , which all the Prophets of God and Apostles and Truly-Holy men were guided by .


id: A54025
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1663
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mime: application/xml
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sentence: 217
flesch: 56
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title:
  Concerning God's seeking out his Israel likewise concerning the principle of lief [i.e. life] whereby he seekth them and the way of their closing with his spirit therein : as also concerning the two covenants under one whereof he pleaseth to exercise and prepare them for the life and inheritance which he hath treasured up for them in the other : with a postscript relating some things necessary for lost man to be acquainted with in his travels from his lost estate / by Isaac Penington.

summary:
  O the precious buddings forth of the virtue and power of God , that was to be found in several sorts of professors , while they sought the Lord only , and the knowledge of one another in the breathing spirit , and minded not the outward form , but the feeling of life in their duties and ordinances ! Only waite to learn and know in Spirit ( and then take heed of dispising ) the weak beginnings and dawnings of light , in the secret stirrings and movings of the principle of life : and waite also for a watch to be set up in thee against that fleshly wisdome and understanding , which will be apt to be judging about the work of God in thy heart ; for if it prevaile so far , it will then also be begetting in thee dispisings of and turnings from the low beginnings thereof , and so divert thy feet from the path of life .


id: A54077
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1663
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3256
sentence: 99
flesch: 65
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title:
  A weighty question, proposed to the King, and both Houses of Parliament together, with some queries about religion, for the good of mens souls, that they may seek after, and be established in that which gives life / by Isaac Penington.

summary:
  Do not all the old things pass away , and new things spring up from the Seed of Life , which God sows and preserves in the hearts of his by his Power ? Now , who is wise to understand these things ? who hath the Key to open the Mysteries of Life ? who knoweth the times and the seasons ? ( the times and seasons of Forms , and the times and seasons of Life and Power ? ) Who seeth what God is about to do in the world , and prepareth his heart for his administrations on the earth ? Who is a friend to God , and to mankind , and willing to travel in spirit out of this dark , corrupt , earthly state of things , into the heavenly nature and being , where man was at first , from whence he came , out of which he departed , and can never be happy till he return thither again ; and can never return thither by his own strength and reason , but only by the power and leadings of God , revealed in him in an inward Principle of Life ? The renting of the Protestants from the Papists was no further good , than it was in the power of the Life : and the renting of others from the Protestants is no further good , than it is begun and held in the same Power : Nay ; any Party , though beginning never so uprightly , and by never so true and clear a leading of the Spirit of God ; yet so soon as it begins to invent and turn aside to a Form of its own chusing , and is upheld by the reasonings and understanding of man , it presently corrupts . Quer.


id: A35136
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1662
extension: .xml
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sentence: 201
flesch: 53
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title:
  Truth's principles: or, Those things about doctrine and worship, which are most surely believed and received amongst the people of God, called Quakers viz. concerning the man Christ, his sufferings, death, resurrection, faith in his blood, the imputation of his righteousness, sanctification, justification &c. Written, to stop the mouth of clamour, and to inform all who desire to know the truth as it is in Jesus; by the servant of the Lord, John Crook. To which is added, somewhat concerning the difference between the perswasions of reason, and the perswasions of faith.

summary:
  As the cures which the Physician doth , manifest and establish his skill and ability ; so doth mans dying unto sin and self , and living unto God , manifest and establish the virtue and power of Christ's Death : for as man manifests his being risen with Christ , by his seeking the things that are above , Col. 3. 1 , 2. And as men and women take and receive these gifts from the god of this world , their minds are blinded , because they believe not in the Light , which sheweth them the vanities of all the gifts of the god of this world ; which gifts the Devil knows ( if they be received ) will so blind the minds of them that receive them , that they will not come to be sensible in the true Light of their lost conditions , so as to cry unto God from the deep and true sence ; for then God , out of the depths of his Love and Mercy , could not but heal them : and therefore , lest the true Light should shine into them , to give them the sensible knowledge of themselves , and God should heal them , the Devil ( as god of the world , by the things of the world ) endeavours to blind the mind ( not the brain-knowledge , but the hearty feeling sence within in the mind ) lest the Light within should so shine , as God should heal them ; and all the busslings of Satan with his gifts , are but to blind the mind within , lest God should heal the soul , that complains to him from the true sight and sence of his misery , as in himself .


id: A54047
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1659
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3681
sentence: 115
flesch: 66
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title:
  A question propounded to the rulers, teachers, and people of the nations of England, for them singly to answer in their hearts and consciences in the fear and dread of the Almighty God ...

summary:
  If the Spirit of God was not then consulted with , and waited upon , if he did not raise the fabrick , surely the building was not right . It was the Spirit of God which rent men from Popery ( so far as they were acted upon pure & honest principles ) shewing the blackness and darkness thereof , and kindling desires in men after a more inward and spiritual way of Worship ; Thus far was of him .


id: A54038
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1661
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words: 5235
sentence: 143
flesch: 61
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title:
  The great question concerning the lawfulnes or unlawfulnes of swearing under the gospel stated and considered of for the satisfaction of such as desire to scan the thing in the weight of God's spirit and to see the true and clear determination of it in his un-erring light / by Isaac Penington the younger.

summary:
  Is not the Confessing of God by a Christian , of more weight , than the Swearing by Him from a Jew or Heathen ? O Nations and Powers of the Earth , seek Truth , seek Righteousness , and do not set up a Form or Image of things in your own wills ( and according to your own wisdom and inventions ) above the Power of God. By binding the Thing ( promised or affirmed ) with an Oath , the thing is confirmed ; and now there is no more strife in the heart concerning the thing , if relating to God , or between man and man in things relating to them , but the striving nature is bound down by the Oath of God , wherewith the Thing is ratified , and so the Doubt and Uncertainty removed , and the Contest ended .


id: A54057
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1662
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3383
sentence: 127
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A54057.xml
txt: txt/A54057.txt
title:
  Some observations, upon that portion of scripture, Romans 14.20 For the service of such in this present age, whose eyes, and hearts the Lord shall please to open to see and consider the weight of the truth thereof. With some few weighty words of advice to several sorts of people, according to their different states. By Isaac Penington.

summary:
  but a New-Creation and Work of God in the heart of the creature , sowing the Light and Life of his Spirit there , and by it working man out of the darkness and Death of Sin ( which is the destruction and misery of the Soul ) into his Life and Blessedness . Observ . What a little giving way to the reasonings of the earthly spirit , about a small matter , drives back the Work of God in the heart , and brings anguish and misery upon the Soul , causing the hiding of the Light of God's Countenance , which is the Life and Joy of the renewed Spirit .


id: A54033
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1678
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4505
sentence: 176
flesch: 74
cache: cache/A54033.xml
txt: txt/A54033.txt
title:
  The everlasting Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and the blessed effects thereof testified to by experience : with a few words to England, my native country / by Isaac Penington.

summary:
  THe blessed message , which the Apostles ( who were sent by Christ to preach the Gospel , ) heard of Christ , and were to declare to others , was ; That God is Light , and in him is no Darkness at all , 1 Joh. 1. 5. The end of Christs sending them with this Message , was , that thereby ( preaching it in the evidence and demonstration of Gods Spirit ) they might Open mens eyes , and turn them from Darkness to Light , and from the power of Satan to God , that they might receive Forgiveness of Sins , and inheritance among them that are Sanctified by Faith that is in him , Act. 26. 18. For the Jew Inward is a Child of Light , begotten in the Light , redeemed out of Darkness , and Dwells and Walks in the Light , as God is in the Light , 1 Joh. 1. 7.


id: A54056
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1660
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3818
sentence: 123
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A54056.xml
txt: txt/A54056.txt
title:
  Some considerations propounded to the Jewes that they may hear and consider, and their hearts at length may be turned towards that which alone is able to convert them to God, that they may once more become His people, and enter into an everlasting covenant with Him that may not be broken, that so they may abide in His love and covenant of life, and remain His people for ever.

summary:
  First , Whether that People of the Jews , as they stood related to God in that Covenant ( given by Moses at Mount Horeb ) with the Covenant it self and all things appertaining thereto , were not a shadow of some inward and Spiritual thing afterwards to appear and be made manifest in its season . 2005-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-09 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2005-10 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2005-10 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-01 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion SOME CONSIDERATIONS Propounded to the JEWES , That they may hear and consider , and their Hearts at length may be Turned towards that which alone is able to Convert Them to God , that they may once more become his People , and enter into an Everlasting Covenant with him that may not be broken , that so they may abide in his Love and Covenant of Life , and remain his People for ever .


id: A54026
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1661
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13152
sentence: 392
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A54026.xml
txt: txt/A54026.txt
title:
  Concerning persecution: which is, the afflicting or punishing that which is good, under the pretence of its being evil. Which practice is contrary to the very nature of mankind (so far as it is drawn out of the corruption and depravation) which would be good and do good, and have good cherished, and evil suppressed, both in it self and others. ... Yet this unhappy error will always be committed in nations and governments, until the proper right and just liberty of men's consciences be discerned, acknowledged and allowed. Likewise, there are some answers given to that common objection, against affording conscience in its due liberty, because evil persons may pretend conscience to escape the just punishment of their evil deeds. With a brief account of that supposed stubbornes, which by man is objected against the people called Quakers. ... By Isaac Penington the younger.

summary:
  But that man who is of a prophane spirit , or comes easily by his Religion ( even by the wisdom , industry and parts of man , and not by the gift of God ) and is exercised in that Fear of God which is taught by the Precepts of men , but knoweth not that Fear which God puts in the heart ( from whence the true Religion and Worship springs ) either of these may be drawn to persecute , yea indeed , it will be hard for either of them to abstain there-from . And if those who are apt and liable to mis-judge of them , did but see the sincere desire of their hearts not to offend man , but to be subject to the utmost according to the will of God , and knew what breathings there are in their hearts to God ( in relation to the Magistrate , and when they appear before Him ) that they may be preserved in the pure fear , and in righteousness and inoffensiveness , and how they cannot but refuse to break any of God's commands , because He is their Supream Lord , and they dare not disobey Him to please man , or avoid their own sufferings from man : I say , if men did see this , surely they would not call it stubbornness and self-willedness , but a pure subjection and denial of the self-will in God's fear , joyned with an holy and humble boldness in His power .


id: A54045
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1668
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12701
sentence: 538
flesch: 78
cache: cache/A54045.xml
txt: txt/A54045.txt
title:
  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.

summary:
  For I seek not esteem of men ; but all my desire is , that men might know the Lord and the Power of his Truth , and by him be gathered into and preserved in that which is pure of him It is the day of the Gospel , even of Gods Eternal Power , which is risen in many hearts : for indeed the Light of the Everlasting Day of God shines gloriously , and doth conquer and shall conquer the darkness and corruption in mens minds daily more and more . O that men might seek after Christ , the Wisdom of God aright : not in that spirit and wisdom which shall never find him .


id: A54062
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1660
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4096
sentence: 114
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A54062.xml
txt: txt/A54062.txt
title:
  Some queries concerning the work of God in the world which is to be expected in the latter ages thereof with a few plain words to the nation of England, tending towards stopping the future breakings forth of Gods wrath, both upon the people and powers thereof : with an advertisement relating to the present state of things.

summary:
  The great Enemy of God , all this night of the Apostacy , hath been Antichrist : who hath not been an open Enemy only , but hath appeared as if he had been for Christ , commanding the worshipping and honouring of Christ , yea and with a great zeal taking upon him to cause People to worship , according to what he determined to be right : and thus he getteth into the Temple , erecting an usurping authority over the conscience , setting up and compelling to an invented worship . When God beginneth to shake the Heaven and Earth in Nations ( according to that great shaking which is to be after the Antichristan Apostasie , Rev. 6. and Chap.


id: A54073
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1648
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13037
sentence: 355
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A54073.xml
txt: txt/A54073.txt
title:
  A touchstone or tryall of faith by the originall from whence it springs and the root out of which it grows : held out by way of expositions of the 12 and 13 verses of the first chapter of Iohn's gospel and of the six former verses of the third chapter which treat expressly about this point ... : to which is added The spirituall practice of Christians in primitive times.

summary:
  Nor of the will of man : The will of man being distinguished from the will of the flesh , notes the purest and most ingenuous part ; and that either in a mans selfe or any other ; It notes , that desire that is naturally in man , to finde out God and his will , and to worship and please him , and so to use the best meanes the soule can meet with in reference thereunto , as seeking into his word , hearing , conferring , praying , and observing what it findes to be his will ; This indeed is noble , ingenuous , and acceptable in the sight of God in its kind and degree ; but yet it doth not rise so high as this birth that is here spoken of : He hath grosser ware for the grosser sort , whom he can content with any thing ; but more refined stuffe for such as look more narrowly into things : Men that are openly vaine and prophane , yet can hardly bee beaten off from it , but that they love God , and have such a Faith as will carry them to heaven ; though they doe not live so strictly as others , yet they believe in Christ , and that is it God looks after .


id: A90394
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1650
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13523
sentence: 450
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A90394.xml
txt: txt/A90394.txt
title:
  Light or darknesse, displaying or hiding it self, as it pleaseth, and from or to whom it pleaseth: arraigning, judging, condemning, both the shame and glory of the creature, in all its severall breakings forth from, and appearances in, the creature. / Held forth to publike view in a sermon, a letter, and severall other inward openings. Through Isaac Penington, (junior) Esq;

summary:
  Every eye was made to see God with , but no eye can , therefore it sickens , languishes , pines and dies under a curse , that through death and destruction it might pass into a capacity of attaining that , without which it cannot enjoy it self . I knew well enough that God and the Creature had an hand in the same act , even in every act of sin : I could bear with it in God , because He knew how to do it wisely ; but I could not bear with it in the Creature , because it did it so foolishly .


id: A54037
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1649
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8946
sentence: 316
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A54037.xml
txt: txt/A54037.txt
title:
  The great and sole troubler of the times represented in a mapp of miserie, or, A glimpse of the heart of man which is the fountain from whence all misery flows, and the source into which it runs back. Drawn with a dark pencill, by a dark hand, in the midst of darkness.

summary:
  He speaks not concerning one mans heart , but generally concerning every mans , the heart of the sons of men , and couples evill and them altogether : Nor doth he speak restrainedly concerning some kind of evill , but indefinitely taking in all manner of evill ; there is nothing that is called evill , but is to be found in the heart of man . Wilt thou judg another for murder ? ( I speak not concerning judicial proceedings in Courts of Justice , where Magistrates as they are entrusted with a work beyond man , so they are enstated in a degree above man , I have said , ye are gods ; yet therein they fall short too , because they are but men at bottom , and so at best can judg but according to the sight of the eye , and hearing of the ear , which is opposed to righteous judgment , Isai. 11. 3 , 4. )


id: A54041
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1659
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 14072
sentence: 444
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A54041.xml
txt: txt/A54041.txt
title:
  The Jew outward being a glasse for the professors of this age : wherein if they read with meekness... such of them as have not overslipt the day of their visitation, may see their own spirits to their own everlasting advantage and comfort by learning subjection to that which hath power in it to destroy this evil spirit in them : containing some exceptions and arguments of the Jews against Christs appearance in that fleshly form of his in their dayes which the present professors may view and compare with their exceptions and arguments against his appearance in spirit in this age, that they may see and consider which of them are the more and the more weighty / by Isaac Penington, the younger.

summary:
  The plainness and simplicity of the life ( which bows to God , and cannot regard man in the transgression ) seems rude and unmannerly to the lofty Spirit of the world . And we cannot , in this mighty day of the Lord , any longer give to man that honour which he hath gathered in the fall , and which pleaseth the fallen nature , and not that which is borne of God .


id: A54022
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1672
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15592
sentence: 467
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A54022.xml
txt: txt/A54022.txt
title:
  The ancient principle of truth, or, The light within asserted and held forth according to true experience and the faithful testimony of the Scriptures also an appeal to the witness of God in all consciences which is the more sure word of prophesie, the testimony of the Scriptures without, or the voice and testimony of the light and Spirit of God within in the heart / by Isaac Pennington.

summary:
  THe true Ministers of the Gospel , the Ministers of the new Covenant , were ordained and appointed by God to be Ministers of Light , Ministers of Righteousness , Ministers of the Spirit , Mat. 5.14 . For now , it is not only outwardly read that God is Light : But the Message hath been received , and persons chosen and sent forth by God to publish it , and to turn men from Darkness to Light , and from Satans power to God.


id: A54072
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1677
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15508
sentence: 480
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A54072.xml
txt: txt/A54072.txt
title:
  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.

summary:
  Now if this be the new Covenant , the Covenant of the Gospel-Church , then they are the Gospel-Church , who are the People o● God according to this Covenant ; who have the law put by God into their inward parts and writ in their hearts ; and so according to this law and covenant , have God to b● their God , and are his People , and are taugh● by him to know him ( as it is written , All th● Children shall be taught of the Lord , Isa . 54.13 & John 6 45. ) and whose unrighteousnes● God hath been merciful to , and whose sins and iniquities he remembereth no more , being washed away from their Consciences by the Blood of the everlasting Covenant , which th● Blood of Bulls and Goats could never do . 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 .


id: A54049
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1660
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10279
sentence: 306
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A54049.xml
txt: txt/A54049.txt
title:
  The root of popery struck at, and the true ancient apostolick foundation discovered, in some propositions to the papists concerning fallibility and infallibility, which cut down the uncertain, and manifest the certain way of receiving and growing up into the truth : also, some considerations concerning the true and false church and ministry, with the state of each since the dayes of the apostles : held forth in true love and pity to the souls of the papists, that they may hear and consider, and not mistake and stumble at the rock of ages, whereupon the prophets, apostles, and whole flock of God throughout all generations have been built : there is likewise somewhat added concerning the ground of error, and the way to truth and unity, for the sake of such as are more spiritual, and have been more inwardly exercised in searching after truth / by Isaac Penington, the younger.

summary:
  The root of popery struck at, and the true ancient apostolick foundation discovered, in some propositions to the papists concerning fallibility and infallibility, which cut down the uncertain, and manifest the certain way of receiving and growing up into the truth : also, some considerations concerning the true and false church and ministry, with the state of each since the dayes of the apostles : held forth in true love and pity to the souls of the papists, that they may hear and consider, and not mistake and stumble at the rock of ages, whereupon the prophets, apostles, and whole flock of God throughout all generations have been built : there is likewise somewhat added concerning the ground of error, and the way to truth and unity, for the sake of such as are more spiritual, and have been more inwardly exercised in searching after truth / by Isaac Penington, the younger. The root of popery struck at, and the true ancient apostolick foundation discovered, in some propositions to the papists concerning fallibility and infallibility, which cut down the uncertain, and manifest the certain way of receiving and growing up into the truth : also, some considerations concerning the true and false church and ministry, with the state of each since the dayes of the apostles : held forth in true love and pity to the souls of the papists, that they may hear and consider, and not mistake and stumble at the rock of ages, whereupon the prophets, apostles, and whole flock of God throughout all generations have been built : there is likewise somewhat added concerning the ground of error, and the way to truth and unity, for the sake of such as are more spiritual, and have been more inwardly exercised in searching after truth / by Isaac Penington, the younger.


id: A54035
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1675
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13536
sentence: 387
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A54035.xml
txt: txt/A54035.txt
title:
  The flesh & blood of Christ, both in the mystery and in the outward briefly, plainly, and uprightly acknowledged and testified to, for the satisfaction and benefit of the tender-hearted, who desire to experience the quickning, healing, and cleansing vertue of it : with A brief account concerning the people called Quakers in reference both to principle and doctrine : whereunto are added some few other things which by the blessing of God may be experimentally found useful to the true pilgrim and faithful travellers out of the nature & spirit of this world / written in true love and tenderness of spirit by Isaac Penington.

summary:
  The flesh & blood of Christ, both in the mystery and in the outward briefly, plainly, and uprightly acknowledged and testified to, for the satisfaction and benefit of the tender-hearted, who desire to experience the quickning, healing, and cleansing vertue of it : with A brief account concerning the people called Quakers in reference both to principle and doctrine : whereunto are added some few other things which by the blessing of God may be experimentally found useful to the true pilgrim and faithful travellers out of the nature & spirit of this world / written in true love and tenderness of spirit by Isaac Penington. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 846:25) The flesh & blood of Christ, both in the mystery and in the outward briefly, plainly, and uprightly acknowledged and testified to, for the satisfaction and benefit of the tender-hearted, who desire to experience the quickning, healing, and cleansing vertue of it : with A brief account concerning the people called Quakers in reference both to principle and doctrine : whereunto are added some few other things which by the blessing of God may be experimentally found useful to the true pilgrim and faithful travellers out of the nature & spirit of this world / written in true love and tenderness of spirit by Isaac Penington.


id: A90395
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1650
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20161
sentence: 695
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A90395.xml
txt: txt/A90395.txt
title:
  Severall fresh inward openings, (concerning severall things) which the day will declare of what nature they are, to which judgment they appeal for justice, being contented either to stand or fall by it: and being likewise ready to kiss that condemnation, which they are likely to meet with in the mean time, from all sorts of men, whom they finde ready to deal hardly with them. / Through Isaac Penington, (junior) Esq;

summary:
  And in the inward state , things remain the same also : Sin is the same , Christ the same , Heaven , Hell ; Happiness , Misery ; God , Devil ; all the same they were , and vary not as we vary , thinking them one while to be thus , and another while thus . Things so refracted , as appearing all to be good and in God , what excellency is there in this , what certainty is there in this ?


id: A90392
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1651
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20592
sentence: 546
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A90392.xml
txt: txt/A90392.txt
title:
  The fundamental right, safety and liberty of the people (which is radically in themselves, derivatively in the Parliament, their substitutes or representatives) briefly asserted. Wherein is discovered the great good or harm which may accrue unto the people by Parliaments, according to their different temperature and motions. Together with some proposals conducing towards an equal and just settlement of the distracted state of this nation. As likewise a touch at some especial properties of a supream good governor or governors. / By Isaac Penington (junior) Esq; The safety of the people is the supream, most natural and most righteous law, being both the most proper end and most adequate rule of government.

summary:
  All the liberty I shall now make use of , is onely freely to express what I conceive necessary , in the present confused state of things , to reduce them into some certain safe and well-grounded order , according to plain Principles of Reason and Righteousness , without aiming either at the throwing down or setting up of any person or thing : Which , what interpretation soever of weakness , folly or disaffection may be put upon it , I finde not my self very prone to value . O ye present great Ones ( I speak it not in disrespect , but in honor , acknowledging that God , by his providence and dispose of things , hath made you great )


id: A54024
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1659
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22398
sentence: 527
flesch: 60
cache: cache/A54024.xml
txt: txt/A54024.txt
title:
  The axe laid to the root of the old corrupt-tree, and the spirit of deceit struck at in its nature from whence all the error from the life, among both papists and Protestants hath arisen, and by which it is nourished and fed at this day, in a distinction between the faith which is of man, and the faith which is of God ... / by ... Isaac Penington the younger.

summary:
  Thus the whole course of religion and of the knowledge of God , came to be out of that Spirit and life wherein it first came forth ( and wherein it first stood ) and consisted in doctrines of men , and a form of worship and knowledge which the wisdome of man had framed , in an imitation of that which formerly stood in the life . For as Christ said concerning the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees , so may I say concerning this faith : Except your faith , with the works of it , exceed that faith and all the works of it ( even to the utmost improvement thereof ) which is to be found in mans nature , it will never lead you to the kingdom of God , nor be able to give you any right to the inheritance of life ; For he that will inherit , must be the right heir , must have the faith of Abraham , the faith of Isaac● which springs up from the root of life in the seed ▪ and this leads the seed into that spring of life ( out of which it shot forth as a branch ) which is the inheritance promised to the seed .


id: A54044
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1660
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22881
sentence: 590
flesch: 60
cache: cache/A54044.xml
txt: txt/A54044.txt
title:
  The New-Covenant of the gospel distingnished [sic] from the Old Covenant of the law and the rest or sabbath of believers, from the rest or sabbath of the Jews, which differ as much from each other, as the sign and shadow doth from the thing signified and shadowed out : in answer to some queries of W. Salters, tending to enforce upon Christians the observation of the Jewish sabbath ... whereto are added Some considerations propounded to the Jews, tending towards their conversion to that which is the life and spirit of the law / by Isaac Penington ...

summary:
  IF the whole Law of Moses , the Law of the ten Commandments , as well as the Law of Sacrifices , were both added upon one and the same account for transgressions ; Then why doth the holy Spirit in the Scriptures lay forth such an antiphitical use of them ( I suppose he means anti-tipical ) the one that sin might abound , Rom. 5.20 . Whether when Jehovah gave forth the ten Commandements plainly as a Law in the letter he did intend by the observation according to the letter : the breach of them by the Spirit .


id: A54063
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1661
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19665
sentence: 676
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A54063.xml
txt: txt/A54063.txt
title:
  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.

summary:
  Thus hath it been with that Nation according to the letter ; & thus it hath also been and is still inwardly in Spirit , as the Israel of God , the Jews in Spirit ( who are Learned in the Law of the Spirit of Life ) can very well read . Now he that would travel safely in Spirit unto the Land of Life , let him wait to have these things following , written by the Finger of God in his heart , and the sence and Impression thereof preserved fresh in him .


id: A90402
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1650
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21021
sentence: 717
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A90402.xml
txt: txt/A90402.txt
title:
  A voyce out of the thick darkness: containing in it a few words to Christians, about the late and present posture of spiritual affairs among them. Together with a post-script about darkening the counsel of God. As also, certain Scripture-prophecies concerning some transactions in the latter times. / By Isaac Penington, (junior) Esq;.

summary:
  2. It may shew us what the wisest undertakings in this kind are ; what our wise openings of Scriptures and Counsells of God , without the light of God are : if any man can truely and groundedly say , n●t I but the Spirit of God in me , opens this or that Scripture , thus and thus unto me ; that is another matter , I have nothing to say against that , but I speak concerning our own opening , though by our most ingenuous and industrious search , by the fairest debating things i● our own understanding ; yea , of our wise opening , when we seem to give out the full intent , the very life and heart of a Scripture , and fence it about with strong Argumen's , making that interpretation safe from all reasonings of all contrary judgements whatsoever , what is this ? but a peece of folly , of madness ; a setting up the wisdome of man , an idolizing the pleasant conceptions of mans working brain ; but a darkening of God : So God said of Job and so Job confesseth his to be , chap. Thus Job lifts up himself in this high peece of knowledg ( wherein he went far beyond the reach of his Friends ) till God here comes to take him to do ; Who is this that darkeneth Counsel by words without knowledg ? Counsel is the intent of a person concerning things , what he drives at in the things he does .


id: A90388
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1659
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 27356
sentence: 718
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A90388.xml
txt: txt/A90388.txt
title:
  Babylon the Great described. The city of confusion. In every part whereof Antichrist reigns. Which knoweth not the order and unity of the spirit, but striveth to set up an order and uniformity according to the wisdom of the flesh, in all her territories atd [sic] dominions. Her sins, her judgements. With some plain queries further to discover her, and some considerations to help out of her suburbs, that her inward building may lye the more open to the breath and spirit of the Lord, from which it is to receiv [sic] its consumption and overthrow. Also, an exhortation to the powers of the earth. By Isaac Penington, the younger.

summary:
  He hath clothed himself like God , he appears like God ( like the holy pure Spirit of life and power ) he appears in the temple of God , he sits there , he rules there , he gives forth laws and ordinances of worship and devotion . He hath exalted himself into the throne above al that is called God , he hath got into the temple , he sitteth there as God , and there he maketh it manifest to al his worshippers that he is the God , in so much as among al the inhabitants of Babylon he is acknowledged and worshipped , and the true Spirit of life is hid from their eyes , and denied and crucified .


id: A54059
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
title: Some principles of the elect people of God in scorn called Quakers
date: 1671
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summary:
  And such act out of his Life in the Reprobation , out of his Power and Wisdom , and out of the Election , Christ , the Seed , the second Birth , who was before the Carnal Birth was , and remains when he will be gone , unto which the Love of God is for ever , and unto whom is the Promise , which goeth over the outward Birth , and destroyes the Devil and his works , who went from Truth , and led man from God , by which the Curse , Wrath and Woe came upon Man , which Christ the Seed , brings the Blessing , and gives man to see the blessed state of all things , how they were in the beginning , and how they were blessed in the beginning ; and through Christ , Man comes up into the power , which is his Throne , where there 's Blessing and no Curse at all . Man was perfect without sin before the Fall , or else he could not have been the Image of God ; for God is pure and perfect , and he made man after his own Image pure and perfect without sin , but when he sinned he defaced his Image , and lost his pure estate , and was drove out of Paradice , and became the Image of the Devil , for sin is the Image of the Devil , and here all sin is in the Fall , and who are in the Fall are in the Devils kingdome , which is impure and impefect , and unclean ; but God promised the seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpents head , Gen. 3.15 . and Christ the seed said , he was come to preach deliverance to the captive , and to heal the broken hearted , and to seek that which was lost , and to bring again that which was driven away , and this was his work ▪ to redeem to man that which man had lost .


id: A54075
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1658
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title:
  The way of life and death made manifest and set before men whereby the many paths of death are impleaded, and the one path of life propounded and pleaded for in some positions concerning the apostacy from the Christian spirit and life, with some principles guiding out of it : as also in answers to some objections whereby the simplicity in some may be entangled : held forth in tender good will both Papists and Protestants who have generally erred from the faith for these many generations, since the dayes of the apostles, and with that which they have erred from are they comprehended / by Isac Pennington the younger.

summary:
  ther alone are the witnesses against the present idolatry and corruption , and to some truths or other of Christs which God enlightned them with , and wherto he , stirred them up to give their testimony , though with the loss of their estates , liberties or lives . The spirit forms the heart anew , forms Christ in the heart , begets a new creature ther , which cannot sin ( He that is born of God sins not ) and this is the rule unto righteousnes , the new creature , or the spirit of life in the new creature , Gal 6. 15. 16.


