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A54027	Concerning the church: or, of the church-state under the Gospel Whereby it may appear what a miserable apostacy from the truth hath overspread and covered the earth for many ages and generations, and how gross and thick the darkness yet lies upon it, though the light of God in his tender mercy hath broke forth and shined upon the people of his gathering, and through them hath also visited the world. The guidance of this in my heart, was particularly and chiefly towards the Papists, but I afterwards had a true sence, that it also extended to the state of such Protestants, as had not waited on the Lord, ... Written in Alisbury prison about the middle of the 6th month, 1666. By Issac Penington. Whereunto is annexed, Some observations upon the eternal judgment, as it is expressed by Christ, Mat.25.31 to the end of the chapter.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1666 (1666)	Wing P1157; ESTC R224045	15,114	20

them and as they prevail they bring death upon and engage God against that Person or Church where they get dominion See what danger one corrupt doctrine of the Nicholaitans brought the Church of Pergamus unto even of God's coming forth with his sword and fighting against her Rev. 2.16 And if God who is the Defender of his Church Himself fight against her how shall she stand 2. By negligence and sluggishness in the Truth by this means also life may languish and extinguish by degrees even till death come wholly over and swallow it up Rev. 3.1 2 3. If the first Love do but abate and wax cold Iniquity will be abounding Mat. 24.12 and the Church will be in danger of losing its Candlestick Revel 2.4 5. 3. By God's withdrawing his Presence and Power for these or such causes abovesaid which nourisheth and preserveth For the life of a Church as well as of a Disciple is fed and nourished from the Fountain or Vine and if it miss of the nourishment its life cannot long continue The Jews may keep up their Sacrifices and reading of the Law but yet they are a dead people to God after their cutting off from the Olive-tree And the Gentiles may worship in the outward Court and keep up the outward Ordinances after God's rejecting and cutting them off also and be as dead to God therein as the Jews in theirs Rev. 11.1 2. Rom. 11.21 22. 4. By their listning and yeelding to the power of the Enemy who quickly deceiveth with his Lies instead of the Truth destroyeth and layeth waste such buildings where God in his just Judgement letteth him forth upon them For the Gates of Hell will prevail against that building which the Arm of Christ is not stretched forth or ceaseth to defend And as the defence of every particular Building upon the Rock is in its abiding there and subjecting to the Head so the defence of larger Gatherings or Churches is no otherwise As their union and gathering is so is their standing to wit in believing and giving up to their Leader hearkning to his voice and obeying him only But if they hearken to a Stranger if they hear another voice than his if they follow another spirit letting in his lies and deceit they cannot keep their standing in the Truth but in so doing depart from it and lose the promise and protection of it For as before by God's gathering them from the spirit of darkness they became His and met with his Power Presence and Blessing so afterwards being again by any subtilty of deceit gathered from the Truth it self into some likeness and appearance of it which the Enemy hath formed they become the Enemies Synagogue not God's Church into which he entereth again and dwelleth there in that likeness and appearance And this House which was once cleansed swept and garnished by God being again recovered and repossessed by the Enemy becomes worse and more filthy in the nature of wickedness than it was before What is more pure glorious and excellent than a true Church of God which is sanctified by his Spirit and holds forth the vertues and pure nature of his Life in the world what is more filthy and abominable and where doth Satan more strongly dwell and act than in that which pretends to be a Church and is not The Promises of God are only to the Seed absolutely but not so to any man or society of men but as in the tender mercy of the Lord they are gathered into and preserved in the Seed in the way that the Lord hath chosen and appointed For the way of Life is glorious and perfect and the Lord will honour it so that those that expect to reap Salvation from Him must walk and abide with Him therein for besides Him there is no Saviour and besides his Way there is no way of Salvation either for any man or Church Quest 5. When hath a Church lost its state and being Answ When its nature is changed when it is overcome by and gathered into another power and spirit than it was first gathered into by the Lord when its standing is not in the Spirit nor after the Spirit but in the flesh and after the flesh when its wayes are carnal its weapons carnal when its hedge or wall is broken down and the spirit of the world not kept out but entred into it and become one with it Then it is no longer of God and separate from the world but one in nature state and being with the world Rev. 2.9 These things are written in the love and good-will of God that men may see that spirit which hath bewitched and entangled them from him with the wayes and false appearances wherein it hath entangled them and may wait on the Lord in truth of heart for his Light Guidance and Power to deliver them that so they may come into his Holy Land and within the limits of his Holy City out of all polluted Lands and Buildings where his Holy Nature dwelleth not and the Pure Dominion of his Holy Life and Power is not felt that they may sing Praise to Him among his Redeemed Ones for his precious Redemption who is breaking the bonds of Captivity and redeeming His out of all Lands and Countries wherein they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day Glory in the Highest to his Name for evermore Some Queries to the Professours of Christianity to provoke them to jealousie for their good Qu. 1. Have ye eat of the Bread and drank of the Wine in the Father's Kingdom which they that have received the Kingdom and are in the Kingdom eat and drink of Qu. 2. Have ye known the heavenly Jerusalem and are ye come to it as the Christians were in the Apostles dayes Hebr. 12.22 Qu. 3. Are ye in Him that is true and your Churches and Gatherings in God and in the Name of his Son Is your being and dwelling in the Eternal Life Qu. 4. Have ye received the Promise of the Father even the excellent Spirit of the Son Qu. 5. Have ye the true Faith Do the living Waters spring out of your bowels according as the Scriptures have said He that believeth on me out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water Joh. 7.38 ch 4.14 Qu. 6. Doth God tabernacle in you is his dwelling among you doth he walk up and down in your spirits and sup with you and you with him Qu. 7. Are ye in the New Covenant taught of God so as ye need no man to teach you and your sins so blotted out according to the Covenant as to hinder no good things from you These things were spoken of in the Law and Prophets to be fulfilled witnessed and enjoyed under the Power and Life of the Gospel which is not a state of the names and foretellings of things as under the Law but of the presence and enjoyment of the things themselves and so far as ye fall short of them ye fall short of