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A54033 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. Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679. 1678 (1678) Wing P1165; ESTC R28790 7,201 14

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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 The darkness is past and the true light now shineth 1 Joh. 2. 8. Arise shine for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee for behold the darkness shall cover the Earth and gross darkness the people but the Lord shall arise upon thee and his glory shall be seen upon thee Isai 1. 2. When the Lord shall build up Zion he shall appear in his glory Psal 102. 16. indeed he doth so Printed in the Year 1678. The Everlasting Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ and the Blessed effects thereof Testified to from Experience 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. Now the eye of the Mind being opened and the Mind turned from the Darkness within to the Light within and from Satans power to the power of God which is revealed in the Light The Soul in the Light comes to see over the Darkness and Satan who darkned it the things of God and his Kingdom as they are revealed in the Light which makes them manifest As First It sees him who is the Rock the Holy Foundation of God the Holy Foundation of Life in the Soul the living Stone by which all the other living Stones are made alive and they are taught of God to come to him as to a living Stone and so are Built upon him and become Gods Building and new Creation in him 1 Pet. 2. 5. 2 Cor. 5. 17. And here in this Light none can miss of the true coming hearing the voice of the Father and being drawn and taught by him to the Son Joh. 6. 44 45. 2ly Here the true Jews state the state of the inward Jew and the inward Circumcision and the true Worship even the Worship of the Father in Spirit and Truth is known 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. And the Circumcision is not a Fleshly Act but the cutting off of that which is Fleshly from the mind by the Spirit and Power of Christ And the Gospel-worship or the Worship of the Jew Inward is the Worshipping of God in the newness of the Life of his Son 3dly Here is the true Repentance from the dead Nature and Dead Works which no man can attain to of himself but is Gods Gift through his Son whom God hath appointed to be a Prince and a Saviour to give Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins Act. 5. 31. I say here that Repentance is known waited for and received For not to men in the Darkness and loving the Darkness is the true Repentance given but to them that are turned towards the Light to them is Repentance given unto Life Act. 11. 18. compared with chap. 26. 17 18. 4thly Here the true Faith the precious Gift of Faith is received whereby men believe in him who gives Life and receive Life from him And this is the Faith which gives access to God and gives victory over the World and that which is contrary to God The Faith which is given in the Light doth so but the Faith which men have in the Darkness doth not so 5thly Here the Cross of Christ is known which is an inward living Spiritual thing effectually Crucifying that man that takes it up and dayly bears it to all that is earthly and sinful and then the pure Seed and Life of Christ springs up in his Earth over the World and every Worldly thing Gal. 6. 14. 6thly Here the pure love springs in the Heart both to him that begets and to him that is begotten In the Light there is nothing but Love but in the Darkness there is no true Love to be found but the very Love that is found there is of the nature of Enmity It is the Light or Truth that purifieth the Heart to the Love unfeigned 1 Pet. 1. 22. Deut. 30. 6. 7thly Here the Lambs patience and meekness is experienced and the Soul adorned with it The Lamb is the Light of the World and they that are made Lambs by him partake of his sweet and meek Nature learning of him to be meek and lowly in heart and so have that patience and meekness from him which no other can attain to Mat. 11. 29. 8thly In the Light the precious Promises are fulfilled and partook of which make them who partake of them and in whom they are fulfilled partakers of the Divine Nature For the Divine Nature is not partook of in the Darkness but in him who is Light Man who is Darkness cannot partake of the Promises which belong to the Children of Light But when by the operation of Gods power his State and Nature is changed and he is now no more Darkness but light in the Lord then the Promises which were made to the Children of Light he cometh to have a share in Eph. 5. 8. 2 Pet. 1. 4. Lastly In the Light the Holy anointing is received the voice of Christ heard and the new everlasting Covenant even the sure Mercies of David made with the Soul Isa 55. 3. The Law of the new Covenant even the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus writ in the Mind and the holy fear of the New Covenant which cleanseth and keepeth clean put in the heart and the blessed Spirit of the Father given and received which gives to those that receive it power to become Sons of God causing them to walk in his wayes and to keep his Statutes and Judgments and do them O blessed Dispensation of Life and holy Power which the Lord hath caused to break forth among a despised people in these latter dayes O that the Sons of men would hear and understand this precious loving kindness of the Lord and put their trust under the shadow of his wings and know what it is to be satisfied with the fatness of his Spiritual-Gospel-house and to drink of the River of his pleasures and in his Light to see Light Psal 36 7 8. 9. This opened in me this Morning in Love and Compassion towards the Papists My Bowels have often rowled over them and been pained concerning them to see how they are closed and shut up as to the true sense and understanding of things of this Nature O