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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54052	The scattered sheep sought after 1. In a lamentation over the general losse of the powerful presence of God in his people, since the dayes of the apostles, with a particular bewailing of the withering and death of those precious buddings forth of life, which appeared in many at the beginning of the late troubles in these nations, with the proper way of recovery for such, 2. In some propositions concerning the only way of salvation, where is an answer given to that great objection, that the light which convinceth of sin, is the light of a natural conscience, and a brief account rendred of the ground of mens misunderstanding Scriptures, 3. In exposing to view the fundamental principle of the Gospel, upon which the redeemed spirit is built, 4. And in some questions and answers, by way of catechism, for the sake of the simple hearted, directing to that principle, and fixing in it / by Isaac Penington.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1665 (1665)	Wing P1188; ESTC R18193	27,955	34

every heart to lead into the fear where the Law of departing from eniquity is learned and so this ray being harkned unto and followed in the fear brings up into the love into the life into the light into the wisdome into the power Do not shut your eyes now O ye wise ones but open your hearts and let in that which knocks there which can and will save you being let in and which alone can save you For it is not a notion of a Christ without with multitudes of practises of self-denyal and mortification thereupon which can save but Christ heard knocking and let into the heart This will open the Scriptures aright yea this is the true key which will truly open words things and Spirits but he that opens without this key is a Thief and a Robber and shall restore in the day of Gods Judgment all that he hath stollen and woe to him who when he is stripped of what he hath stollen is found naked The Scriptures were generally given forth to the people of God part to the Jews part to the Christians He that is born of the life hath right unto them and can read and understand them in the Spirit which dwels in the life But he that is not born of the Spirit is but an intruder and doth but steal other mens light and other mens conditions and experiences into his carnal understanding for which they were never intended but only to be read and seen in that light which wrote them And all these carnal apprehensions of his with all the faith hope love knowledge exercises c. which he hath gained into his Spirit hereby with all his prayers tears and fasts and other limitations will become loss to him for he must be stripped of them all and become so much the more naked when God recovers his Scriptures from mans dark Spirit which hath torn them and exceedingly prophaned them with his conceivings guessings and imaginings and restores them again to his people The Prophets and Apostles who wrote Scripture first had the life in them and he who understands their words must first have the life in him He that understands words of life must first have life in himselfe And the life from which the word came is the measurer of the words and not the words of the life And when the Scripture is interpreted by the life and Spirit which penned it there is then no more jangling and contending about it for all this is out of the life from and in that Spirit nature and mind where the lust the enmity the contention is and not the unity the love the peace But this is it which undoeth all the dead spirit of man reads Scripture and from that wisdome which is in the death not knowing the mind of the Spirit gives meanings and from believing and practising the things there spoken of which death may do as well as speak of the fame gathers an hope that all shall be well at last for Christs sake though it feel not the purification the cleansing the circumcision which cuts off the body of sin and death here for it is not to be cut off hereafter and so gives an entrance into the everlasting Kingdom where the King of righteousnesse is seen known and worshiped in spirit The Fundamental Principle of the Gospel This then is the message which we have heard of him and declare unto you That God is light and in him is no darkness at all 1 Joh. 1.5 This was the message which Christ gave his Apostles to make way into mens hearts by This is the first thing that is proper for the mind to receive which lyes in the darknesse namely that there is no darknesse in God nothing but light Darknesse is excluded from him and the mind that lies in darknesse cannot have union or fellowship with him Therefore he that will be one with God and partake of his life must come out of the darknesse which hath no place with God into the light where God is and in which he dwels The work of the Son is to reveal the Father and to draw to the Father He reveals him as light as the spring of light as the fountain of light and he draws to him as light When he gives to his Apostles the standing message whereby they were to make him known to the world and whereby men were to come into fellowship and acquaintance with him this is it That God is light and in him is no darkness at all Christ Jesus the Son of God he is the image of his substance the exact image of this light the light of the world who is to light the world unto this substance So that as God the Father is to be known as light so Christ the Son also is to be known as light He is the only begotten of the Father of lights the alone image wherein the eternal substance is revealed and made known And he that receives this image receives the substance and he that receives not this Image receives not the substance Now there is a breath or spirit from this substance in this Image which draws to this Image thus the Father draws to the Son and the Image again draws to the substance thus the Son draws to the Father And so hearkning to this breath the mind and soul is led out of the darknesse into the Image of light which is the Son and by the Image into the substance and here 's the fellowship which the Gospel invites to Joyning to this breath being transformed by this breath living in this breath walking in this holy inspiration there 's an unity with the Father and the Son who themselves dwell in th●● breath from whom this breath comes in whom this breath is and in whom all are who are one with this breath This breath purgeth out the dark breath the dark air the dark power the mistery of death and darknesse and fils with the breath of light with the breath of life with the living power with the holy pure mistery Now as the Father is light and the Son light so this breath this spirit which proceeds from them both is light also And as the Father who is light can alone be revealed by the Son who is light so the Son who is light can alone be revealed by the spirit who is light He then who hears this message that God is light and feeleth himself darknesse and in darknesse and is willing to be drawn out of the darknesse into fellowship with God who is light This is requisite for him to know namely how he may be drawn out who it is that draws and which are the drawings that he may not resist or neglect them waiting for another thing and so misse of the true and only passage unto life Wherefore observe this heedfully None can draw to the Father but the Son none can draw to the Son but the Father and both these alone draw by the spirit The Father

standing when the Lord drew his sword upon me and smote me in the very inmost of my soul by which stroke lying still a while under it my eyes came to be opened and then I saw the blindnesse of that eye which was able to see so far and the narrownesse of that heart and spirit which was so large and vast in comprehending and my Soul bowed down to the Lord to slay this to starve this to make a fool of this yea my desire was to present sence as great after the death of this as after the enjoyment of life in the Lord. And now this hath opened a fresh spring of sorrow in me a mourning over the just one which hath been slain by me O how cruelly how often have I murthered that which came to give me life how often have I sought to have my own understanding my own comprehension my own will and affections in Religion live and the righteous pure immortal principle die though I did not then call it my own as other men do not now but took it to be of God and to be the thing that was to live for I also was deceived and thought the Bastard which was a false conception was to inherit not knowing him to be the Bastard but taking him for the right heir And my soul is exceedingly enlarged in me towards those who at this day lie under the power of the same deceit who have slain the Lord of life as well as I and in whom the contrary nature lives under a covering who cannot possibly see that this which now lives in them is not the heir until the same eye be opened in them The life that was stirring at the beginning of the trouble of these Nations was very precious it did unite to God it did unite to one another it kindled an universal sence of the captivity of the bondage of the great oppression of Israel and a joynt cry went up to God for deliverance And God heard the cry and arose to deliver and did begin to break the yoke both outwardly in the Nation and inwardly in peoples spirits But then the tempter did also set himself at work again to intangle Israel For this end he brings forth likenesses of that which Israel desired and was seeking after He brings forth several forms of worship to allure some with several sorts of notions to allure others with several fresh appearances of life of love of liberty to tempt the people of God aside from following that spirit which rose up to deliver Thus comes he forth and prevails he divides in Jacob and scatters in Israel drawing one part to this form another part towards that form one to this Notion another to that Notion one to this inward Image another to that spiritual Idol and all from the life all from the power all from the Saviour all from the deliverer and so the work stops It stops in the Nation and it stops in peoples spirits and men generally wheele about and center again and apply themselves to make Images like the Images they had destroyed and so the Captivity returns Israel is turned back into his bonds and the Spirit which oppressed him before again crusheth him and rules over him And so great hath the breach been upon Israel that the Spirit of the world is become hardened and thinks there 's an end of this work of God and now they may venture again to settle both Church and State upon the old Principles of that wisdom which the Lord was shaking And now where is the people whom the Lord was redeeming where is the praying people the panting people the mourning people the people that could have travelled from sea to sea to have had the will of God revealed are they not run into the earth is not the spirit of the earth come over them are they not dividing the spoils The inward Jew the renewed nature is sunk lost made a prey of the Gentile the Heathenish Spirit hath risen up and seated it self in a form of worship or in some high Notions of knowledge on which that Spirit which knows not the Tree of life loves to feed Some are stark dead no sence at all in them but life quite swallowed up of death Others perhaps are still pressing towards the Kingdom but in the wrong nature in that which shall never obtain and they may there meet with some enjoyments but not enjoyments from or of the true thing but of the likenesse which the enemy hath painted to deceive them with and they may also wait and hope that the Kingdom will come and yet be out of that which knows its coming and can alone prepare the heart for its appearance Yea some are got so high that they are even in the Throne They have the love the life the liberty the joy the peace of the Kingdom as they imagine They can reign as Kings without us without that nature and principle wherein our life lies But these mighty ones these Princes the Lord will pull from their seat and raise up the humble the meek the low in heart the beggar from the dunghil and give to him the Throne of his glory Now this my life in love saith to you all as the proper and only way of your recovery and redemption come to that which can judge you Sion is to be redeemed with judgement and her converts with righteousnesse If Sion be redeemed if the seed be again raised that Spirit which hath got up above it and keepeth it down must be judged and brought under by judgement How was Israel of old to be recovered from her idolatries and whoredoms but by owning and coming to that light in the Prophets which manifested and judged it Ye also have worshiped Idols ye also have run a whoring from the Lord and have been inflamed with Idols under every green Tree Every new Idol every fresh appearance every lively likeness hath tempted you aside from the living God When one way of worship hath been dry and barren ye have left that when some notions of things have appeared empty and shallow ye have been weary of them but the next new Idol under the next green Tree hath drawn you aside into the bed of whoredom where ye have lost true fellowship with the true God of life and have been betrayed of the seed of life which he began to quicken and raise from the dead Now come to that which judgeth the Idol the Idol-maker the whorish Spirit which tempteth aside from the true husband and that Spirit which is liable to be Tempted and let these be cut down by the judgment and then the true seed of life will spring and flourish again There is no other way be not deceived That must be awakened in you which can judge you and must bring forth its judgment in you unto Victory if life in you ever rise and get the dominion over death And that Spirit which now rules in you and keeps the life