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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

the Lands whereinto we have been scattered in the cloudy and da●k day And that this is Amalecks spirit in you several sorts of Professors through your dark imagina●ions and conceivings about the Letter which riseth up against us and this Spirit in you feareth not that God who hath appeared and by his own holy Arm of Power hath led and is leading us So that we may take up the complaint of the Prophet in this day Who hath believed our Report and to whom is the Arm of the Lord Revealed For though we speak what we have heard seen and felt of the Life which is Eternal and of the Word which was in the beginning yet ye are so far from the Witness of God in your own hearts that ye cannot receive our Testimony but oppose it with your dead dry notional conceited imaginary knowledge which will stand you in no stead at all when ye come to appear before God Then he proceedeth complaining against us thus Ah Sir In stead of clapping us on the back and ministring to us in our journey you clog our March and fall upon our Rear In stead of serving the Kingdom of Christ which the Church is now in Travel of you deny the first Principles of the Gospel and wholly d●●own the hope of Christs second Appearing and Kingdom knowing or acknowledging as no other Saviour so no oth●r Kingdom but a Principle or a Light in your selves Answ God is Light and in him is no darkness at all And this is the message of the Gospel 1 John 1.5 And Christ who is one with the Father he is one and the same Light with him and we confess we look not for another besides him nor for another Kingdom besides the Kingdom which is revealed in him for the Kingdom which is revealed and manifested in and by him is the Spiritual Eternal Everlasting Kingdom and there is not another We do not say the Fulness or that the full Glory of the Kingdom is now revealed or enjoyed nay we confess we have but the earnest in comparison but a mea ure a proportion but this is the same in nature and kind with the Fulness it self And all that is of Christ of his Spirit of his Nature is saving the least measure of his Grace that appeareth in any heart bringeth Salvation with it the least touch of his Finger hath pure Life and saving Virtue in it Yet this is not distinct nor s●parate from the Fulness and so it is not another though it be not the Fulness But whereas thou complainest of our not ministering to you in your Journey but clogging it Oh that ye knew what your Journey is and whither ye are marching and traveling in that present spirit wherein ye act We acknowledge it Gods great Love and Mercy to us to deliver us from that spirit and from that way of Knowledge Religion and Worship wherein ye still abide And what we have seen and known from the Lord that are we required of him to testifie to you and if your eyes were opened by the Principle of Light from him in the holy Anointing ye would bow to the Testimony But judging of it in a contrary wisdom and spirit ye not only turn from it but fight against it and reproach and slander us for our faithfulness to the Lord and good will to you which the Lord make you sensible of and forgive you that at length ye may know and receive him who is the desire of all Nations in his pure living inward and spiritual appearance And as for denying the first Principles that belongs to your selves for do ye not deny that Light which is the foundation of all and wherein and whereby all the misteries of Gods Kingdome are seen and instead thereof set up a notional comprehensive knowledge of your own conceiving comprehending and gathering from the letter whereas no man can understand the letter but as he comes into the abid●s in the Light This we have experienced in our selves formerly for we were but guessing at and imagining concerning the Letter until and further then we were turned to and our minds gathered into and comprehended in the Light of Gods Spirit And as for disowning the hopes of Christs Kingdom the Lord knoweth that is far from us for we our selves bless him for what of his Kingdom is already appeared and wait and hope for the further and fuller appearance thereof But this we confess another Spirit another Christ another Light another Life another Power another Kingdom besides him who hath already appeared we do not expect For he is our King and Kingdom both and the least proportion of his Life and Spirit received bought with the loss of all and so purchased and possessed is no less then a Pearl of great price and an heavenly Kingdom to him that enjoyeth it He addeth further If Christ be but a Principle then we are no other and onely Principles shall be saved and no Persons Is this your Gospel Answ Christ is the promised Seed to which all the promises are in which Seed all the families of the Earth are Blessed as they are gathered unto and grafted into Him But he is not only the Seed but the seeds-man also who soweth of his Life of his Nature of his Spirit of his heavenly Image in the hearts of the Children of men He giveth a measure of the Grace and Truth unto them the fulness whereof he hath received of his Father Now this measure of the Light Eternal is very pretious and is that wherein he appears and manifests himselfe Yea indeed glorious things are both spoken and witnessed of the Seed of Life of the Seed of the Kingdom of the Grace and Truth which comes by Jesus Christ But we never said that this Seed or Measure of Life is the Fulness it selfe but that which the Fulness imparts to us and brings Salvation home to our doors by And if any man will receive Ch●ist he must receive that from Christ wherein he manifests himselfe There is a difference between the Light which enlighteneth the fulness of Light which giveth the measure of Light the measure of annoynting to us and the measure or proportion which is given the one is Christ himselfe the other is his gift yet his gift is of the same Nature with himselfe and leavens those that receive it and abide in it into the same Nature so that not onely the gift is one with him but we also are one with him in the gift Come be not thus wise after the flesh nor do not strive so in thy wisdome and knowledge out of the Truth to Triumph over the Truth and Truths Testimony in this the day of Gods great Love and glorious Arm of Salvation revealed in the midst of his People which he hath gathered out of Babylon and the dark knowledg thereof into the Light and Kingdom of his own dear Son where he giveth them Eternal Life and of the fruits of the Good and Heavenly