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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54039	The holy truth & people defended, and some of the weapons and strength of the power of darkness broken and scattered, by the light and power of truth in an answer to the chief passages in a letter, written to me, and replyed to by me, before my imprisonment in this place, where I have been a prisoner above a year and a half, without any law broken , or cause given on my part, who only came innocently and peaceably to visit my friends in prison / by me Isaac Pennington ...	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1672 (1672)	Wing P1172; ESTC R23209	36,170	44

committed before For though the Lord visit me with Life quicken me thereby make a change in my heart and state yet it is his Mercy to acccept me and to pass by for his name sake my former debts and trespasses against him Alas the new Covenant is wholly a Covenant of Grace and Mercy and the giving of Christ drawing the mind to him accepting and Justifying in him are works of Grace and Mercy towards this So the Spiritual Israel may well sing this Song in the Land of Holyness and Redemption O praise the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever I can truly set my Seal to this thing that the more Holy and Righteous the Lord maketh me in his Son the more sensible am I of his Love Grace and Mercy in Justifying of me And it is pretious to me to witness Justification and acceptance with him in and through his Son He saith further But this is the Bounty the Freeness the Munificence the Richness of the Grace of God to call things that are not as though they were Answ Take heed of abusing that Scripture God sent Christ to Renew to Redeem to Change to make Holy and Righteous to make people such as the Father might be pleased with accept and Justifie And as Christ maketh them so the Father receiveth and accepteth them as such But God doth distinguish and call things as they are He doth not call an ungodly man an holy man a justified man But when he hath changed him new created him in Christ Jesus took him out of his old stock and planted him into the new then he accounteth and calleth him so and not before It were better for men to wait upon God to understand what his Spirit meant in what he spake then to put formed meanings of their own upon his words He wrests my words charging and reproving me as if I said The Love of God was a bare thing Answ Those were not my words nor did my words so signifie but my words were that it is not by bare Loving or meer Loving or only Loving that God makes a man Righteous which is very true manifest For there is besides his Love in and through that Love the sending of his Son and revealing of his Son drawing to and Transplanting into his Son to make Holy and Righteous in him For Holyness though it may be distinguished yet it cannot be devided from Righteousness nor can a man posibly be Righteous in Gods sight unless he be also Holy in some measure His reflecting words hereupon I pass by though very unjustly and unchristianly cast upon me without any just occasion given him by my words which I desire the Lord may make him sensible of that he may be forgiven it He blameth me for saying we make no finite thing our Righteousness and yet he saith We make the measure of the Spirit which each member of Christ receives our Righteousness Answ A measure hath the same nature with the fulness A measure of the Spirit and Life of the Grace and Truth which comes from Jesus Christ hath the same nature that the fulness ha●h All the Life all the new Creation that comes from him and dwels in him is Righteous and found Righteous where ever it is found Yet I do not remember that we have thus expressed it that that measure is our Righteousness but it is he who is the fulness who is revealed in that measure and it is he who is our Righteousness our Wisdom our Sanctification our Redemption But it is in the holy pure measure of the heavenly gift that he is made thus of God to us not out of it He saith The Lord our Righteousness Redeems us not properly by the Life and Spirit of his Godhead though that was in the work supporting enabling him and carrying him up in that great undertakeing but by the death and sufferings of his manhood Answ This is strange Doctrine to make the manhood the main Redeemer and the Life and Spirit of the Godhead but the supporter and the carrier up of the man in the work of Redemption Whereas it was the Word which Created all which also Redeemed he that left his Glory and made himself of no reputation but came in the form of a servant to do the will It was the Spirit and Life of the Father even the Eternal Son which took up that body appeared in that body offered it up a pure and acceptable Sacrifice to the Father finishing the work therein which the Father gave him to do Joh. 17.4 5. He saith Shall we think to answer the Law by our obedience Answ We do not look upon the Law of Moses which was given to the Jew outward to be the dispensation of the new Covenant or to be the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus But those who are in the new Covenant and have Gods Law writ in their hearts and his fear put there which preserveth from departing from him and his Spirit put within them to cause them to walk in his wayes and to keep his Statutes and Judgments and do them and who live in the Spirit and walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit the Righteousness of the Law is fulfilled in these Yet they do not magnifie and cry up their own obedience nor call it their Righteousness but him from whom their obedience comes For in the measure of his Grace and living Truth the Soul is one with him and all that he is and all that he hath done is theirs and it is he himself that is the Righteousness of all that are in him And they that abide in him par●ake of his Righteousness from day to day which floweth in like a stream upon them I wish he could consider in what Spirit it is that he calls the white Stone a Ticket for the Righteousness Doth he know the white Stone with the new name It is no less then the Foundation Stone then the Righteousness it self And what doth he talk of bringing that as a Ticket for the Righteousness He seemeth to pass by some things which I spake in tender love and weightiness of Spirit to him as the Judgment of man in his day but let him take heed least when be comes to appear before God he then find it was the Judgment of Gods Spirit in the Light of his day Which day is inward and Spiritual which believers are to hasten to and which approacheth in every heart as the night spendeth and passeth away And all true Christians and Believers ought to wait for the passing away of the night and the dawning of this day and the arising of the day Star in their hearts He saith Christ is now ready to be revealed Answ I believe he is to be revealed fu●ther and in fuller glory But he is truly already revealed as the Saviour Shepheard and Bishop of the Soul and many are gathered home to their resting place in him which while they were

inwardly revealed yours but as outwardly conceived of We believe with the Faith which is of the natrue of him whom we b●lieve in which Faith is mighty through God and works through all the Powers of Darkness giving victory over them all in Gods way and time ye believe with a Faith which esteems victory and a perfect and entire State wanting nothing as impossible while in this world And as our Root differs so all that grows up in us differs from yours So that indeed all is singular that is in us and all also is singular that is brought forth by us as the Spirit of the Lord who knoweth the difference of things witnesseth Have we so long walked in the Name and Spirit of our God amongst you shewing the singular virtues of his Spirit daily in our faithful Testimony Sufferings Patience and Conversation and do ye still cry What singular thing do ye Just like the Jews who after all Christs mighty Works and demonstrations of his Fathers Virtue and Power outwardly asked for a sign O that your eyes and hearts were opened by the Spirit and power of the Lord for then ye would soon see otherwise in this respect than now ye do And then as for that expression Of audatiously lifting up a Standard against the sealed and experienced Truths of the Gospel that is but an over confident expression through prejudice and mistake of judgment at least for I can truly testify I have never learned since the pure heavenly Light of the Lord Jesus Christ hath shined on my Spirit to deny any one Truth that ever was sealed to me or experienced by me in the dayes of my former profession For whatsoever was then of God hath been restored to me and that onely which was of the flesh pared off And I have ground also to believe that it is so wi●h others in this respect as it hath been with me He speaks As if our difference or talk were about words Nay it is about things For though we own the same Lord Jesus Christ to be the foundation of Life yet after a different manner ye as ye notionally apprehend concerning him we as we experience him to be the precious stone and foundation of Life in us And we testify of Justification and Sanctification as we witness him bestowing it upon us and working it in us But for boasting of Perfection I wonder how he dares speak thus What is their no fear of God before his eyes or in his heart that he dares charge us with that which is so utterly false Where is any of us that did ever boast of Perfection But that Gods Power and Covenant is able to make Perfect and that Gods will is our perfect Sanctification in Soul Body and Spirit Even that we be wholly leavened with the Salt of the Kingdome and become a fit Temple for him this we humbly and reveren●ly testify of and press towards in his holy name and fear And as for that humble sence Of a mans own nothingness d●iveing him out of himself to live and glory in Christ alone This we meet with and witness in that Light which this generation of Professors dispiseth But others though they may talk of it can never come truly to witness it but in that Light wherein God bestoweth and preserveth it Well the Professors of this Age who despise the Light shall one day find that what they take themselves to be they are not in Gods sight nor are we before him what we are reproachfully represented by them But we are his workmanship in Christ Jesus created by him unto good works and that it is natural to us to bring forth the fruits of Righteousness and Holyness to our God however men reproach us As for his zeal for my Soul Which he desired me to except It is strange zeal and would tend to my ut●er destruction had it power over me But blessed be my God who hath called me into the Light of his Son and I am satisfied that he will preserve me therin even in that holy Spirit of Life which he hath gathered me into from all deceiveable Spirits of darkness whatsoever in that holy Covenant wherein his strength appeares to me and is revealed in me And O! That he might know what that Spirit is wherin he hath thus appeard against the Lord though under a pretence as if it were for him and bring forth no more the fruits of it For a close I shall add a few words on that Scripture Phil. 3.3 For we are the circumcission which worship God in the Spirit and rejoyce in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh It is a precious thing to witness this Scripture fulllefid in the heart To experience that there which inwardly circumciseth which cutteth off the foreskin of the heart which lieth over it and vaileth till it be cut off by the inward appearance of the Life and Power of the Lord Jesus Christ inwardly revealed Then when this is done I can truly and sensibly say I am a Jew inward How so How can that be proved Why I am inwardly Circumcised I have felt that within which Circumciseth the heart and have born the inward pain and cutting thereof and am Circumcised by it That which stood between me and the Lord is cut off the vail is taken away the stiffeneckedness and unsubjection to God removed the Wall of seperation is inwardly broken down and now I am in true unity of Spirit and comunion with my God even with the Father and the Son in that one holy Spirit wherein they are one Now I can bow before the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and worship him in his own Spirit even in the new and fresh Life thereof day by day Now my rejoycing is in Christ Jesus whom the Father hath sent both outwardly in a body of flesh to fullfil the holy will and do what therein the Father had for him to do and also inwardly in his Spirit and Power into my heart to destroy the works of the Devil there and so to work me out of the enmity and unreconciled state into the love and reconciliation And I cannot but rejoyce both in what he did in his body of flesh for me and in what he doth by his Spirit and Power in me And blessed be the Lord I feel him near his Spirit near his Life near his Power near his pure Vertue n●ar his holy Wisdome near his Righteousness near his Redemption near For he is my Rock and my Strength and my Salvation day by day And I have no confidence in the flesh in what I am in what I can do after the flesh but my confidence is in him who hath weakened me who hath stripped me who hath impoverished me who hath brought me to nothing in my self that I might be all in him and that I might find him all unto me He is my Peace he is my Life he is my Righteousness he is my Holiness he is the Image

Land He addeth I firmly believe and so have all the Saints that have gone before that Christ is a Person and his Spirit is a living Principle in the hearts of all the faithful but it is not the Spirit or Principle in us that did redeem us but the man Christ Jesus Ans If he mean by the man Christ Jesus The second Adam the quickening Spirit the heavenly Man the Lord from heaven he who is one with the Father the Word which was in the beginning which created all things I grant him to be the Redeemer for it was he who laid down his glory wherewith he was glorified before the World was and made himselfe of no reputation but took upon him the form of a servant and came as a servant in the fashion of a man to do the will But if he distinguish Christ from this Word and Spirit and make the Mans Nature the Saviour and the God-head only assistant to him as he seemed to word it before and as these his words seems to imply that I utterly deny For so testifieth the Scripture I am the Lord and besides me there is no Saviour I am a just God and a Saviour c. So that Christ is the Saviour as he is one with God It was Gods Arm and Power revealed in him that effects Salvation Yea if I may so speak his obedience was of vallue as it came from the Spirit and it was the offering it up through the Eternal Spirit that made it so acceptable to God So that we must not attribute Redemption originally to him as a man but as he came from God and brings the honor all back to the Spring and Fountain from whence he had all that God may be all in all and the very Kingdom of Christ may endure and abide for ever in the Root of Life from whence it came And so he is not a Foundation or the Corner-stone distinct from God He as the Foundation was and is the Rock of Ages the Spiritual Rock both before and since he took upon him the body prepared for him It is the Spirit the Life which was revealed in that Man by which he did his Fathers will which was and is the Foundation whereupon all the living Stones are built There is a Foundation of Death and that 's the wicked Spirit There is a Foundation of Life and that 's the holy Spirit by which Christ himselfe was led and guided in that his appearance in the flesh which descended upon him and he was annoynted with and all his are to be annoynted with and live in the same Spirit And he that knows Christ in this Spirit he hath the true and abiding knowledg of him and no otherwise And though the names Messiah Jesus Christ Saviour Annoynted c. were given to him as in the flesh or as man they most properly and originally belong to him with respect to the Divine Life and Birth in him as the sent one And only Begotten Proceeding from the Father the Brightness of his Glory c. for he as the Eternal Son of God was the Spiritual Rock before he took upon him that Body which was prepared for him which expresly was called the Body of Jesus and which he called This Temple and distinctly he being called Jesus Christ come in the flesh which every Spirit that confesseth not is not of God but is that Spirit of Antichrist 1. Joh. 4.3 He speaketh of sitting on the Throne of David Ans It is a great matter to know that Throne which Davids Throne signified and Christ sitting thereon His Kingdom his Throne are not of this outward worldly nature but inward and spiritual and his Throne is in his Kingdom and Temple where he reigns and is worshiped He that knoweth Sathan disthroned and cast out knoweth also Christ come in and sitting on his Throne O that men did give over their dreaming about the heavenly Glory and come thither in the leadings of Gods Spirit where it is revealed Was that Scripture written in vain concerning the glorious state of the Gospel But we all with open face beholding as in a Glass the glory of the Lord are changed into the same Image from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord 2 Cor. 3.18 He putteth up a prayer for us That the Lord would awaken us and make us do our first works and return to our first Love Answ Ah poor man how is he blinded not discerning how the Lord hath don this for us and much more but it is he himselfe that hath lost his first love and doth not do his first works but is found short of that tenderness quickness and savour that once was in him O that he might see it and return to him whose quickening virtue restores and heales He concludeth with the words of the Prophet Jer. Chap. 13. ver 15 16 17. Hear ye and give ear be not proud for the Lord hath spoken Give glory to the Lord your God before he cause darkness and before your feet stumble upon the dark Mountains and while ye look for Light he turn it into the shaddow of death and make it gross darkness But if ye will not hear it my Soul shall weep in secret places for your pride and mine Eyes shall weep sore and run down with Tears because the Lords Flock is carried away Captive Answ How doth this man mistake in his sight and applycation of Scriptures Seeing and applying in a wrong Spirit It is true the Lord hath spoken but he himselfe and many such as he is have not given eare And what is the reason but because they are exalted above the pure Principle of Life in their own hearts And are not such proud Hath not he brought forth these weapons the e false charges and reasonings in this paper against the heritage of God in the pride of his heart As for us the Lord God hath humbled us and taught us who have learned and dayly learn of him in the humility and in humility and fear do we give forth our testimony though also in the Authority and Majesty of our Masters Name whose Name stands over and is exalted above every Name and his Mountain and gathering is in the pure Authority and Power of his Spirit above all other Mountains and gatherings whatsoever And as for Gods causing darkness let him and such as he is look to it for God doth not nor will cause darkness to them whom he hath gathered into the Light of his Spirit but saith to them Arise shine for thy Light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee O City and dwelling place of the living God But those that know not or turn against his appearance and cry up former dispensations of the same Life and Power but reproacheth and blasphemeth the present on them doth he cause the gross darkness to fall and cover them And this which he thretneth us with is already fallen upon himselfe for his feet are