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A54072	To the Jews natural, and to the Jews spiritual with a few words ro [sic] England my native country, &c. : some sensible, weighty queries, concerning some things very sweet and necessary to be experienced in the truly-Christian state : whereunto is added a postscript, containing some queries on Isa. 50, 10, 11 ... / by Isaac Penington.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1677 (1677)	Wing P1214; ESTC R36966	28,679	73

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

to be filled with his Blessings to have my Cup overflow and that others ●ay be helped refreshed and gladed therewith and by the sweet Taste thereof led to wait for the opening of the same Root and Fountain of Life in themselves to yield living Sap and send forth living Streams in them Day by Day Somewhat in the Love of God to the Jews Natural or seed of Abraham after the Flesh O the Glory of your state outward who were the people whom God once chose and loved and manifested his Power and Presence among above all People Whose Land was the Glory of all Lands to which God brought you out of Egypt by an out-stretched Arm through a dreadful VVilderness wherein ye were tempted tried and exercised and the succeeding Generation fitted to enter into O what Laws and statutes and righteous Judgments did God give you such as no Nation besides had VVhat a Temple had ye to appear before God in and the Ark of the Covenant and holy Priests Kings and Prophets And how nigh was God to you to be enquired of by you and how ready to hear your Prayers in all that you called upon him for The eternal God was thy Refuge and underneath were the everlasting Arms the Lord was thy Rock and thou wast built upon him and he did thrust out the Enemy before thee and did say Destroy And when the Arm of the Lord did destroy them before thee thou didst dwell in safety alone and the Lord was a Fountain of living waters to thee and his Heavens did drop down Fatness upon thee Happy wast thou O Israel who was like unto thee O People saved by the Lord the Shield of thy help and who was the Sword of thy Excellency And thine Enemies were sound Lyars unto thee and thou didst tread upon their high places And it might have been still so with thee hadst thou not been unmindful of the Rock that begat thee and forgotten God that formed thee For thy Glory should not have been taken from thee but swallowed up in a higher Glory wherein thou mightest have had the first and chiefest share hadst thou not by thy almost constant Rebellion and Unbelief provoked the Lord against thee not only often to afflict but at last utterly to cast thee off from being a People and chose a people in thy stead who should bring forth better Fruits to the Lord of the Vine-yard then thou in thy Day hadst done Yet when thy state was thus glorious it was not a state of the truly-substantial lasting glory but a shadowy state or representative thereof Thy day of glory was not the day of the Messiah the day of everlasting Light inwardly wherein the Lord alone is exalted inwardly in the Hearts of all in whom he b●eaks down all that is contrary to the Light of his Day Thy Day was but the day of the outward shadows of the heavenly substance but when that day the day of the inward substance and glory shined thy shadows or shadowy state was to fly away and to be swallowed up in the pure substance and spiritual Kingdom of the Messiah Thy birth from Abraham after the Flesh was not the birth which was to inherit the Promise in the Kingdom of the Messiah but there is a birth inwatdly born of the Spirit born after Abraham in his Faith who travels inwardly as Abraham did outwardly and seek an inward Country City whose builder and maker is God To these the spiritual Kingdom and Promises belong Thy circumcision was but the circumcision outward the circumcision of the Flesh it was not the circumcision of the Heart That i● the circumcision of the inward Jew which indeed the Scripture call'd for from you because there was somewhat near you which wold have so circumcised you had ye hearkned and given up to it but ye as a people were not so circumcised but were a stiffnecked people as Moses and the Prophets were still complaining of you uncircumcised in Heart and Ears resisting God's Spirit both in your own Hearts and in the Prophets until the Lord was provoked to take away both Vision and Prophet from you The Aegypt in which your Fathers were in bondage and Pharaoh who oppressed them was but the Aegypt outward and Pharaoh outward There is an inward Aegypt wherein the spiritual seed the inward man the soul is in Bondage and there is a spiritual Pharaoh that oppresseth the spiritual seed in spiritual Aegypt And there is a stretching out the Arm of the Almighty inwardly to break the strength of the inward Pharaoh to pierce Leviathan the crooked Serpent and to deliver the soul from under his captivity The Wilderness also your Fathers were led through was but the outward Wilderness where they were tempted tried by the Lord many wayes that he might do them good in the latter end But the inward Israel after they are led out of the inward Egypt are tried in the inward wilderness where they are judged after the flesh and that wasted in them which is not to enter into inherit the good land where they are tried in the furnace of affliction their filth purged away by the spirit of judgment burning that the righteous nation which hath received the holy inward law keeps the Truth may enter into the good land city and kingdom of the Messiah and inherit the blessed promises of life and salvaton there Moses your great Prophet was a Type of the great lasting standing Prophet whom God would raise up like unto Moses who was to give his inward law as Moses did the outward and to lead all the spiritual Israel as Moses did the outward Israel and his Word was to be heard stand in all things whatsoever he shall say unto his People and whosoever will not hear and obey this Prophet shall be cut off from among the holy spiritual and inwardly living People Joshuah who succeeded Moses led but into he figurative Rest he was but a Figure of him that inwardly leads into the inwad and spiritual Rest which the true Jews which are inwardly created and formed by God and made a willing People in the day of his Power enter into The Pillar of Cloud and Pillar of Fire in the Wilderness were but Figures of the spiritual Pillar of Cloud and Fire by which the spiritual Israel are led and defended in the glorious gospel-day of God's spirit and power read Isa ch 4 which speaketh of the gospel-day and the Pillar of Cloud and Fire to be created therein and of the defence which is to be on all the inward and spiritual glory The Land of Canaan the outward good Land an● Kingdom of Israel was but a Figure of the inward Land and Kingdom of the inward Israel in the dayes of the Messiah This is the Land of Judah in which the Song is sung because of the inward strong City where God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks which the righteous nation which keepeth the Truth

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