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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

they that live feed upon And though they be many yet feeding upon this Bread they become come one Bread one living Body consisting of a living Head and living Members for the same life and pure heavenly nature which is in the head is communicated by him to the members But how shall we find this may some say I will tell you how we found it and here none can miss of it that sweep the House and make a diligent and faithful search after it That in the heart of man which turns against sin discovers sin draws from sin wherein God ministers help against sin that is it That is the Pearl hid that is the Kingdom hid in that is the Righteousness of God revealed from Faith to Faith in all that receive and give up to this holy leaven This is of the Nature of God and Christ this is a measure of his Light of his pure life this is the law and commandment everlasting which God writes in the hearts of the spiritual Israel For the inward Jew hath inward tables where the inward law is w●it for the inward eye to read O how nigh is God inwardly to the inward people in this our day O the pure glory is broke forth But alas men are in their several sorts of Dreams and take no notice of it What shall the Lord do to awaken this Nation In what way shall his Power appear to bring down Unrighteousness and to bring up Righteousness in the Spirits of People Do ye not think the Lord hath been at work and is still at work How could Deceit be so wasted inwardly and Truth so grown inwardly and overspread more and more and gain ground in the Nation if the hand and Power of the Lord were not with it blessing it O take notice of the handy-work of the Lord ye children of men and wait to feel Truth near and to partake of the living Virtue and Power of it that ye may feel your Hearts creating anew and the old Heavens and Earth may inwardly pass away wherein dwells Unrighteousness and the new Heavens and the new Earth may be inwardly witnessed wherein dwells Righteousness O that this Nation might become a Paradise of God! O that every one might be sensible of his Presence and Power and Kingdom and righteous Government inwardly in the Heart from the King that sits on the Throne to the Begger on the Dunghil Surely man was not made for himself surely he was not made such a Creature as now he is but in the holy Image of God with love in his heart to God above all and to his Neighbour as to himself O what are the Religions and Professions of several sorts where this love is not found The Lord is restoring his Image and bringing forth the true pure Religion again The Pearl the Truth contains comprehends it O buy the Pearl O buy the precious Truth sel all that is contrary to it for it take up the Cross to all that is evil in thee as the Light in thee maketh it manifest and thou shalt have the free Possession of it in thy heart and feel it a root of Life a treasure of Life a well of Life out of which the living water will be daily springing up in thee unto Life everlasting Amen The 22d of the 7th Mon. 1676. Three Queries upon three verses of the 46th Psalm Verse 4. THere is a River the Streams whereof shall make glad the City of God the holy Place of the Tabernacles of the most High Query 1. Which is the River and what are the Streams thereof which make glad the City of God And which is the City of God which they make glad Which are the Tabernacles of the most high and which is the holy Place of those Tabernacles O my dear Country-men that every one in this Nation did understand and enjoy these thing For the Lord is ready to beget a Will to beget a Thirst in the hearts of the Children of Men And whosoever thirsteth whosoever will is called to the Waters and may come to the Waters and take of the Water of Life freely Isa 55.1 Rev. 22.17 yea to the full satisfaction of their Souls For indeed this is the Day of God's Power wherein he doth make his people willing to come to him and to abide with him the Fountain of living Waters And those that do come to him and abide with him he abundantly satisfieth with the Fatness of his House and giveth them to drink of the River of his Pleasures Psal 36.8 9. Mark God is the Fountain of living Waters with him is the Fountain of life a River of Pleasures a River whose Streams make glad the whole City even the holy Place of all the Tabernacles of the most high And he giveth his Citizens to drink of it and whoever drinketh of it it maketh them glad it refresheth their life O that more knew what this means Ver. 5. God is in the midst of her she shall not be moved God shall help her and that right early or when the Morning appeareth or from the Morning appearing Qu. 2. How is God in the midst of this City Is it not more gloriously in an inward way then ever he was in the Temple in the outward Jerusalem in an outward way How is she built How is she founded and scituated How comes it about that she shall not be moved How is God her Refuge and Strength and present help in time of Trouble After what manner doth God arise inwardly and scatter his Enemies How doth the Morning Light help her after what manner when the Enemy cometh in like a Flood doth the Spirit of the Lord lift up a standard against him Ah blessed are they that know and experience and live in the Enjoyment of these things O that this whole Nation did so Were it not worth the suffering of much the denying of much and the bearing of much Judgment to come to this Ver. 10. Be still and know that I am God I will be exalted among or in the Heathen I will be exalted in the Earth Qu. 3. What is that Stilness wherein God is known to be God not outwardly in notion but inwardly in the heart VVhat is that Silence of Mind wherein God teacheth his Israel in the new Covenant to know him as he is even all of them from the greatest to the least How will God come to be exalted in the Heathen and in the Earth Is it not by the Light of his Day breaking forth and shining in them VVhere this Day breaks forth in any heart doth it not bteak down and destroy the Kingdom of Darkness inwardly And doth not the King of glory consume the man of sin the wicked one that was exalted in the Temple before which Temple belonged of right to God with the spirit of his mouth and destroy him with the Brightness of his coming or appearing Isa 11.4 2 Thes 2.8 Then is the Day known vvherein the Lord

of the Messiah What is it to come to these waters O that ye experimentally knew But this I will tell you from true and certain Experience that if ye come to take notice of this word of Life which God hath placed nigh in your Mouths and Hearts to separate between the Evil words and evil thoughts of the Enemie's begetting and bringing forth and the good words and good thoughts of God's begetting and bringing forth and incline your Ear to it and come from that which it reproves in you and draws you from to it self your souls shall soon come to live and he that gives you Life will make an Everlasting Covenant with you even the sure Mercies of David But ye must still mind him as a witness and leader and commander inwardly in your Hearts that ye may be preserved in the Covenant and enjoy the Blessings of it see Isa 55. Qu. 3. Did not the Messiah come at the set time at the time set by the holy Spirit of prophecy Did he not come in the prepared Body to do the will And did he not do the will And after his Obedience to his Father was he not cut off though not for himself And after his cutting off were not you made desolate Why were ye made desolate Why did such a stroke come upon you as never before O consider it Read Dan. 9.24 to the end of the chapter and let him that readeth understand Qu. 4. What was that Curse and on whom did it light Let their Table become a Snare to them c. Psalm 69. was it not on those that gave gall and vinegar to the Messiah to drink whom David was a figure of and spake in spirit concerning Whose Eyes are alwayes darkned Doth not the vail lie still on your whole Nation Do ye know the inward mountain where the vail or face of the covering is destroyed In the inward day and light of the Messiah it is destroyed There that which vails the noble eye of the m●nd is known and also that which destroyes and re●oveth it To what purpose is it for you to read Moses and the Prophets when the vail is so upon you that ye cannot see what is to be abolished and is abolished by the dawning of the glorious day of the Messiah and what is to remain and never to be abolished There is a Jewship there is a Circumcision there is a Sabbath there is a Rest c. for the inward and spiritual people which is to remain and never to be abolished Qu. 5. VVho were those that God would hide his Face from and see what their end should be because they were a froward Generation children in whom was no faith VVho were they that moved God to Jealousie and provoked him to Anger And what was the people and foolish nation he would provoke them to Jealousie and Anger with Deut. 32. Was it not the spiritual the holy nation inwardly the true Jews whom God took from among the Gentiles whom he appeared among and was a God and a Father to when he cast off and forsook the Jews outward and left them to be a Desolation Qu. 6. Who are those that shall be hungry when God's Servants shall eat And thirsty when God's Servants shall drink And ashamed when his Servants shall rejoyce Are not your souls hungry and parched for want of the spiritual sustenance which the living God satisfieth his servants with making 〈◊〉 feast of fat things to them on his inward holy mountain And are not ye ashamed of your expectations of the Messiah while the servants of the Lord rejoyce in him their Prince and Saviour and witness him daily a Leader and Commander to them What is the People whom the Lord hath slain and made desolate are not ye a slain people to God alienated from his Life Spirit and Power dead in your litteral Notions and Observations And what are the servants of the Lord whom the Lord hath called by another Name even a Name that ye never knew see Isa 66. And consider how all your day God spread out his Hand to you and ye were rebellious and would not hear and now night is come upon you and your visitation as such a people is and hath been long ended Qu. 7. Did not God signifie by the Prophet Malachy that he had no Pleasure in you nor would accept an Offering at your Hand And did not he also signifie the choosing of the Gentiles in your stead that the called among the Gentiles should be his people and his Name which ye had profaned should be great among them and their Incense and pure Offering in every place be accepted even from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same Read Mal. chap. 1. Qu. 8. Now the inward people and the inward Covenant the New Covenant are brought forth shall ye ever be owned or regarded as an outward People according to your outward Covenant any more Will not all such expectations fail you for ever Ye have looked from generation to generation for the coming and appearing of the Messiah outwardly after an outward manner But his coming and appearance is inward and he setteth up his Kingdom his everlasting Kingdom in his Saints and in their Hearts he ruleth inwardly and the Messiah the seed of the VVoman bruiseth the Head of the serpent there O that ye knew the substatce O that ye knew the VVord of Life in the Heart and were turned to it and daily faithful and obedient That ye might feel it crushing and dashing the power of sin and corruption in your Hearts This is the Consolation Hope and Joy of the inward and spiritual Israel O that ye might be made partakers thereof and that your long outward captivity and desolation might at length end in inward Freedom and Redemption Amen Somewhat of Concern to the Jews spiritual who are of the Seed of Abraham spiritually or according to the Faith and gathered in this day of God's Power to the true and everlasting Shiloh THE Scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Law-giver from between his Feet untill Shiloh come and unto him shall the Gathering of the People be Gen. 49.10 Old Jacob in the Spirit of Prophecy saw that Judah was to have the Scepter the kingly Power and it was not to depart from him it was to be his Right and the Law-giver was to be between his Feet till Shiloh came then the Right was Shiloh's to reign and to give Laws to his People whom he should gather out of the Kingdom of Darkness and from Satan's Power into his own inward spiritual and everlasting Kingdom This was the true King God's King whom he would set up on the holy Hill of spiritual Zion and all the holy inward spiritual gatherings of all People scattered from the holy living Power must be to him I will overturn overturn overturn it and it shall be no more until he come whose Right it is and I will give it him And his

Dominion shall not pass away or the Scepter and law-giving Power shall not pass away from him as it did from Judah nor shall his Kingdom ever be destroyed Dan. 7.14 but God will give to him the Throre of his Father David and he shall reign over the House of Jacob forever and of his Kingdom there shall be no end Qu. But who are the People that shall be gathered to him Answ The People that shall he●r his voice and come at his call that shall receive the instruction of Wisdom and feel the drawing Power and Virtue of the Father in the Day of his Power It is written in the Prophets All thy Children shall be taught of the Lord. And every one that is taught and learneth of the Father cometh to the Son cometh to the Messiah cometh to the Shiloh to the word eternal to the word of Life in the Heart Qu. Was not the Messiah promised to the Jews to come of them and to be appropriated to them Answ He was promised to them and to come of them but not to be appropriated to them But he was to be the Universal Saviour to all that should come under his Ensign and Banner He shall set up an Ensign for the Nations and he shall sprinkle many Nations c. And God promised that he would give his Son his elect choice Servant for a Light to the Gentiles Qu. Were the Jews then excluded Answ No They were to be gathered to Shiloh as well as others Nay the Lord had a special regard to them The Gospel was first preached to them They had the first Offer or the first Call to the spiritual Glory They were the Children of the Prophets and of the Covenant God made with their Fathers unto whom God having raised up his Son Jesus sent him to bless them in turning away every one of them from their Iniquities And the whole Nation turning from their Iniquities should have been gathered by him and should have enjoyed the Blessing of his Day and Kingdom Yea the first gathering was from among them and the first glorious Gospel-church was at Jerusalem where the Spirit and Power of the Lord Jesus did most eminently and wonderfully break forth and great Grace was upon them all But the Nation was not gathered to Shiloh nor did come under his Scepter and Government but only a remnant of the Nation So these being gathered the rest were cast off and the Ensign was carried among the Gentiles and the great gathering was there among them Qu. How is it manifest that the great Gathering to Shiloh was to be from among the Gentiles Answ By many expess Prophecies of Scripture and Promises to the Messiah that he should have the Gentiles for his Inheritance and Possession VVhen God establisheth his King the Messiah upon the holy Hill of spiritual Zion notwithstanding all the Heathens rage against him and the People of the Jews imagining a vain thing thinking to keep the Body of him in the grave who was the Resurrection and the Life what saith the Lord to him Ask of me and I will give thee the Heathen thine Inheritance and the uttermost Parts of the Earth thy Possession Psalm 2. The Lord said in another place It is a light thing that thou shouldst be my Servant to raise up the Tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel I will also give thee for a Light to the Gentiles that thou mayest be my Salvation unto the Ends of the Earth Isa 49.6 Again the Lord saith further From the rising of the Sun even unto the going down of the same my Name shall be great among the Gentiles and in every place Incense shall be offered unto my Name and a pure Offering For my Name shall be great among the Heathen saith the Lord of Hosts Mal. 1.11 Sing O barren thou that didst not bear break forth into singing and cry aloud thou that didst not travel with Child for more are the Children of the Desolate th●n the Children of the married Wife saith the Lord Isa 54.1 Who was the married Wife who was the Mother in the Dayes of the first Covenant was it not the Jerusalem below Who was then Desolate and Barren was it not another Jerusalem which is free and the Mother of all the spiritual Children Why was she now to rejoyce and sing But because she was to break forth on the right hand and on the left and her Seed was to inherit the Gentiles and make the desolate Cities to be inhabited ver 3. The Covenant on Mount Sinai did bring forth a great People whereof Jerusulem that was below was the Mother The Covenant afterwards made besides that in Horeb whereof the Word nigh in the heart and mouth is the Foundation by which Word God circumcifeth was as yet Barren and did not bring forth a People to the Lord. But this Covenant was to have a time the Jerusalem above was to have a time wherein her Seed should inherit the Gentiles and the Maker the Husband should be called the God of the whole Earth ver 5. Read Gal. 4. and see how the Apostle of the Gentiles expounds this Mystery shewing which is the free woman and her free Children and which is the bond woman and which the bond Children who are cast out in the Day of God and in the shining of his Heavenly Light inwardly and cannot inherit the glorious Kingdom of the Gospel with the Children of the free woman And consider who were the People in the time of the first Covenant VVho obtained Mercy then VVere they not the Jews And who were not a People and who did not ob●ain mercy but were left out of the love and mercy of the first Covenant VVere they not the Gentiles And did not the Lord promise that he would have mercy on them that had not obtained mercy and that he would say to them that were not his People THOV ART MY PEOPLE and they shall say MY GOD Hos 2.23 compared vvith Rom. 9.26 VVas not this once gloriously fulfilled in the first Visitation of the Gentiles And is it not again gloriously fulfilled in his novv visiting them again vvith the fresh Sound of the everlasting Gospel as vvas promised Rev. 14.7 O vvhat a Promise is that concerning the Day of God that In that day there shall be a Root of Jesse which shall stand for an Ensign of the People to it shall the Gentiles seek and his Rest shall be glorious Isa 11.10 Is not This the Day wherein the holy Mountain is known and that nothing can hurt or destroy there And doth not the Knowledge of the Lord cover his Land his Earth as the VVaters do the Sea And doth not the Root of Jesse the Rock of Life and Salvation stand for an Ensign placed so by God and who can displace it or shake them that are built on the inward Mount Zion Yea is not the Rest of the weary Soul when 〈◊〉 comes hither found to be very glorious

whose VVrath is dreadful Rev. 19.11 to the end Psalm 2.11 Qu· 8. What shall the Cry be when God's Spirit and Power prevaileth over the Dragon's Spirit and ●nd Power when the Lamb gets the Victory when he smites the Earth with the Rod of his Mouth and with the Breath of his Lips shall slay the Wicked when he brings down the Dragon Beast and false Prophet and the false Church Mother of Harlots which hath drunk the Blood of his Saints with his Vials Plagues Woes Thunders c When Babylon the great City falls which made all Nations drunk with her spiritual Wine of Fornication Answ Then the Power which doth this shall be magnified Then it shall be said no more who can make War with the Beast but who can withstand this Power Who can make War with the Innocent Righteous Lamb who hath his sword in his Mouth and with his tender-hearted faithful Followers and prosper Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name For all Nations shall come and worship before thee for thy Judgments are made manifest Great and Marvelous are thy Works Lord God Almighty Just and True are thy Wayes thou King of Saints Rev. 15.3 4. Yea a great Voice of much People in Heaven shall say Allelujah Salvation and Glory and Honour and Power unto the Lord our God for True and Righteous are his Judgments for he hath judged the great Whore which did corrupt the Earth with her Fornication and hath avenged the Blood of his Servants at her Hand chap. 19. ver 1.2 Now doth it not concern all people to consider which is Zion God's holy Mountain and which is the Jerusalem of his building the holy City of God the holy Church of God the Mother of all the truly living Children for the Jerusalem which is above and which is free is the Mother of them all Gal. 4.26 And also which is Babylon the City built by man and the Spirit of Antichrist in a kind of likeness but not in the real nature of the true Church that they may wait for and follow God's Call to come out of her and may not partake of her sins of her sorceries Rev. 18.22 of her Fornication from the pure Life Spirit and Power and seting up Worships and compelling people to worship in her forms which are out of the Life and out of the Power that they partake not of her plagues which will indeed be very dreadful such as shall affright any from coming near her or medling with her spiritual sorceries and fornications any more Rev. 18.4 ver 9 10. O therefore let every one consider what the Beast is what his Image what the Mark in the Forehead what in the right Hand and take heed he be not found worshipping the Beast and his Image or receiving his Mark either in his Forehead or right hand lest God make him to drink of the Wine of his Wrath which is poured out without Mixture into the Cup of his Indignation and he be tormented with Fire and Brimstone in the Presence of the holy Angels and in the Presence of the Lamb and have no rest Day nor Night Rev. 14.9 10 11. I had rather run great hazards outwardly and suffer much Affliction and Persecution from Men to keep my Soul true to God in the spiritual Worship and Testimony which he hath given me against all false Wayes and invented Worships then expose my Soul to the hazard of drinking of this dreadful Cup of God's Indignation which the Lord God of tender Mercies teach men and give them true VVisdom to avoid and escape Amen THE CONCLUSION BEhold my Servant shall deal prudently he shall be exalted and extolled and be very high As many were astonied at thee his Visage was so marred more then any man and his Form more then the Sons of Men so shall he sprinkle many Nations the Kings shall shut their mouthes at him For that which had not been told them shall they see and that which they had not heard shall they consider Isa 52.13 14 15 Thou art fairer then the Children of Men Grace is poured into thy Lips therefore God hath blessed thee forever Gird thy Sword upon thy Thigh O most mighty with thy Glory and thy Majesty And in thy Majesty ride prosperously because of Truth and Meekness and Righteousness and thy Right Hand shall teach thee terrible things Thine Arrows are sharp in the Hearts of the King's Enemies whereby the People shall fall under thee Thy Throne O God is forever and ever The Scepter of thy Kingdom is a right Scepter Thou lovest Righteousness and hatest Wickedness therefore God thy God hoth anointed thee with the Oyl of Gladness above thy Fellows Psalm 45. ver 2. to 8. Strengthen ye the weak Hands and confirm the feeble Knees Say to them that are of a fearful Heart be strong fear not Behold your God will come with Vengeance even God with a Recompence he will come and save you Then the Eyes of the blind shall be opened and the Ears of the deaf shall be unstopped Then shall the lame man leap as an Hart and the Tongue of the dumb sing For in the Wilderness shall Waters break out and streams in the Desert And the parched Ground shall become a Pool and the thirsty Land Springs of Water In the Habitation of Dragons where each lay shall be Grass with Reeds and Rushes And an high-way shall be there and a way and it shall be called the way of Holiness the unclean shall not pass over it but it shall be for those the wayfaring men though Fools shall not err therein No Lyon shall be there nor any ravenous Beast shall go up thereon it shall not be found there But the redeemed shall walk there And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with Songs and everlasting Joy upon their Heads They shall obtain Joy and Gladness and Sorrow and Sighing shall flee away Isa 35. ver 3. to the end Blessed be the Lord God of Life forever ●hese Scriptures and many more are sweet●y and preciously fulfilled in the hearts of a Remnant in this our Day They were once in a degree fulfilled in the Day of the Ap●earance of the word of Life in the prepa●ed Body of Flesh They were again mo●e ge●erally fulfilled in the Day of the pouring ●ut of his Spirit and gathering a people to ●im both from among the Jews and Gentiles ●hom he did sprinkle with his holy Life Spi●it and Power And they are again fulfilled ●n the hearts of many after the long Night of Darkness and great and large Apostacy from ●he Spirit and Power of the Apostles Blessed O blessed be the Lord the Sun of Righ●eousness hath again shone forth and appeared inwardly in a glorious living powerful manner to them that have feared his Name and he hath been a God of Vengeance to the Man of Sin yea to all that was dark fleshly and corrupt in them and a God of