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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

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

which is in the midst of the garden of God which word was made flesh for mans weaknesse sake on which flesh the living soul feeds and whose blood the living spirit drinks and so is nourished up to eternal life Q. But had Adam this food to feed on and was this to be the food of the Gentiles Jews and Christians in their several dispensations A. God breathed into man the breath of life and man became a living soul and nothing lesse then life it self could satisfie his soul at first nor can to this day Every word of God that cometh fresh out of his mouth is mans food and life And God speaketh often to man shewing him what is good but he cannot relish or feed on this but desireth somewhat else through the error and alienation of his mind And what God speaketh now to man if that be mans life Adam had much more of it before his fall And for the Jews Moses tells them the word was nigh them in their heart and in their mouth and Paul also tels the Christians so So that the word is not far from any man but mens ears are generally stopped against it by the subtilty of the serpent which at first deceived them Q. But did not the Jews seek for eternal life in reading and studying the Scriptures under their dispensation and do not the Christians now seek for life and to feed on life A. Yea they did and do in their own way but they refuse it in Gods way Thus Adam after he had eat of the tree of knowledg would have fed on the tree of life also but he was shut out then and so are Christians now And if ever they will feed on the tree of life they must loose their knowledge they must be made blind and be led to it by a way that they know not Q. This is too misterious for me give me the plain literal knowledg of the Scriptures A. Is not the substance a mystery is not the life there The letter of any dispensation killeth it is the spirit alone that giveth life A man may read the letter of the Scripture diligently and gather a large knowledg therefrom and feed greedily thereon but it is only the dead spirit which so feeds but the soul underneath is lean barren hungry and unsatisfied which when it awakes it will feel Q. But may not the dead spirit ar well imagine mysteries in every thing and feed thereon A. Yea it may and the error here is greater then the former but in waiting in the humilty and fear to have the true eye opened and the true mystery revealed to the humble and honest heart and in receiving of that in the demonstration of the spirit out of the wisdom of the flesh here is no error but the true knowledge which springs from life and brings life Q. How may I come at this mystery A. There is but one key can open it but one hand can turn that key and but one vessel but one heart but one spirit which can receive the knowledge Q. How may I come by that heart A. As thou being touched with the enemy didst let him in and didst not thrust him by with the power of that life which was stronger th●n he and nearer to thee Even so now when thou art touched and drawn by thy friend who is nigh and thereby findest the beginning of vertue entering into thee give up in and by that life and vertue and wait for more and still as thou feelest that following calling and growing upon thee follow on in it and it will lead thee in a wonderful way out of the land of death and darknesse where thy soul hath been a captive into the land of life and perfect liberty Q. But can I do any thing toward my own salvation A. Of thy self thou canst not but in the power of him that worketh both to will and to do thou mayst do a little at first and as that power grows in thee thou wilt be able to will more and to do more even until nothing become too hard for thee And when thou hast conquered all suffered all performed all thou shalt see and be able understandingly to say Thou hast done nothing but the eternal virtue life and power hath wrought all in thee Q. I perceive by what is said that there is a Saviour one which hath virtue life and power in him to save but how may I meet with him A. Yea he that made man pittieth him and is not willing that he should perish in the pit into which he fell but hath appointed one to draw him out and save him Q. Who is this Saviour A. He is the Tree of Life I have spoken of all this while whose leaves have virtue in them to heal the Nations He is the plant of righteousnesse the plant of Gods right hand hast thou ever known such a plant in thee planted there by the right hand of God He is the Resurrection and the Life which raiseth the dead soul and causeth it to live He is the spiritual Manna whereupon the quickned soul feeds Yea his flesh is meat indeed and his blood is drink indeed which he that is raised up in the life feeds on and findeth the living vertue in them which satisfieth and nourisheth up his immortal soul Q. But hath not this Saviour a name What is his name A. It were better for thee to learn his name by feeling his vertue and power in thy heart then by rote Yet if thou canst receive it this is his name The light the light of the World a light to enlighten the Gentiles that he may convert and make them Gods Israel and become their glory And according to his Office he hath enlightned every man that cometh into the world though men neither know the light that cometh from him nor him from whom the light comes and so notwithstanding the light is so near them remain strangers to it and unsaved by it Q. Why dost thou call him the light are there not other names every whit as proper whereby he may as well be known A. Do not thus let up the wise and stumbling part in thee but mind the thing which first puts forth its virtue as light and so is thus first to be known owned and received Yet more particularly if thou hast wherewith consider this reason We call him light because the father of lights hath peculiarly chosen this name for him to make him known to his people in this age by and hath thus made him manifest to us And by thus receiving him under this name we come to know his other names He is the life the righteousnesse the power the wisdom the peace c. but he is all these in the light and in the light we learn and receive them all and they are none of them to be known in spirit but in and by the light Q. How are the other names of Christ known in and by the light

the light the everlasting Arm the living power is felt and the Anchor being felt it staies the soul in all the tossings troubles storms and tempests it meets with afterwards which are many yea very many 4. Faith through the hope works righteousnesse and teaches the true wisdom and now the benefit of all the former trouble anguish and misery begins to be felt and the work goes on sweetly All unrighteousness is in the darknesse in the unbelief in the false hope faith in the light works out the unrighteousnesse and works in the righteousnesse of God in Christ And it makes truly wise wise in the living power even wise against the evil and to the good which no man can learn elsewhere 5. In the righteousnesse and in the true wisdome which is received in the light there springs up a love and an unity and fellowship with God the Father of lights and with all who are children of the light Being begotten by Christ the light into the nature of the light and brought forth in the Image there is an unity soon felt with God the Father and with those who are born of the same womb and partake of the same nature And here is a willingnesse and power felt in this love to lay down the life even for the least truth of Christs or for the brethren 6. Belief in the light works patience meeknesse gentlenesse tendernesse and long suffering It will bear any thing for God any thing for mens souls sake It will wait quietly and stilly for the carrying on of the work of God in its own soul and for the manifestation of Gods love and mercy to others It will bear the contradiction and reproach of sinners seeking their good even while they are plotting contriving and hatching mischief laying many subtil snares and longing thereby to entrap the innocent 7. It brings peace joy and glory Faith in the light breaks down the wall of darknesse the wall of Partition that which separates from the peace that which causeth the anguish and trouble upon the soul and so brings into peace Christ is the skilful Physitian he cures the disease by removing the cause The unskilful Physitians they heale deceitfully crying peace peace while there is no peace while that which breaks the peace is standing but Christ doth not so but slaies the enmity in the heart by the blood of his crosse so making peace And this is true peace certain peace Now finding the clods of earth removed the enemy the disturber the peace-breaker trodden down the sin taken away the life power present the soul brought into the peace here 's joy unspeakable joy joy which the world cannot see or touch nor the powers of darknesse come neer to interrupt Here 's now no more crying out O wretched man and who shall deliver c. but a rejoycing in him who hath given victory and made the soul a conqueror yea more then a conqueror Wait to feel that thou who art now groaning and oppressed by the mercilesse powers of darknesse And this joy is full of glory which glory increaseth daily more and more by the daily sight and feeling of the living vertue and power in Christ the light whereby the soul is continually transformed and changed more and more out of the corruptible into the incorruptible out of the uncircumcision the shame the reproach into the circumcision the life the glory Q. Doth the light do all this A. Yea in them that turn towards it give up to it and abide in it In them it cleanseth out the thicknesse and darknesse and daily transformeth them into the image purity and perfection of the light And this nothing can do but the light alone Q. What makes men generally so averse from the light A. Their unity with the darknesse which the light is an enemy to discovering and disturbing it Q. But wise men knowing men men who are looked upon as having most light they also are enemies to this light and speak hardly of it A. Was it not alwayes so Did any of the Rulers or wise Scribes and Teachers of the Law believe in him formerly and is it any wonder if such believe not in him now Q. What may be the reason why the wise men formerly have not and now cannot believe in the light A. There are two great reasons for it 1. Because they cannot comprehend it They can comprehend the knowledg which they can gather out of the book of Nature or out of the books of the Law and Prophets or out of the books of the Evangelists and Apostles but they cannot comprehend the light which all these testifie of so that such a kind of knowledg they can receive but the light they cannot for it is not to be comprehended but gathereth into it self and comprehendeth 2. Because it is an utter enemy to them It will not wink at the closest of their evils nor speak peace to them therein Their own gathered knowledg may speak peace to them but this will not Thus the Jews could speak peace to themselves from their Temple Ordinances and Sactifices though they walked in the stubborness and uncircumcision of their hearts resisting the checks and motions of the holy spirit there thus the Christians can speak peace to themselvs from a belief and hope through Christs dying at Jerusalem though they know not him in them and are at a distance and not one with that in their hearts which is of Christ and in his power and authority checks and reproves for sin but the light will not speak peace so but only where the vertue of the living blood is felt cleansing away the sin Q. But there are many professors strict professors who without doubt have once tasted of the living virtue what makes them such enemies to the light for there are none speaks more against it then they A. 1. Because they are fallen from what they once had for if they were in that living principle which once gave them a true taste of life through the Scriptures they could not but know own the light which was the thing which gave them the taste and would have preserved their relish had they known how to turn to it and abide in it 2. The light is a witnesse against all their knowledg and religious practises imitations from the Scripture which they hold practise out of the light in the unrighteousnesse even in that part which is not to know or be the worshipper And can ye blame them that when the light is so great an enemy to them that they also turn head against it How is it possible that having slain and murdered the just one in themselves they should acknowledg and give him his due honour in others Q. But have the strict professors who pretend great things in honour of Christ murthered him in themselves A. Yea verily as really as the Scribes Pharisees and people of the Jews put him to death at Jerusalem for what they do

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 Pennington When Ephraim spoke trembling he exalted himself in Israel but when he offended in Baal he died And now they sin more and more c. Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew c. Hos 13.1 2 3. Yea his spring shall become drie and his fountain shall be dried up ver 15. We have all been as sheep going astray but blessed be the everlasting Arm which hath gathered any of us to the Shepherd and Bishop of our souls O come to the fold O scattered Sheep come to the fold Wander no longer from mountain to hill but remember your resting place the ol● resting place of Israel even the m●untain of the Lords house where Israe● may lie d●wn and feed in peace and no ravenous beast can disturb O house of Jacob let whoredome wine and new wine no longer stea● away your hearts but come let us walk in the light of the Lord. LONDON Printed in the Year 1665. The PREFACE MY people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the Fountain of living waters and hewed them out Cisterns broken Cisterns that can hold no water This was ever and anon the complaint of the Lord concerning Israel from the beginning to the end The Lord did delight to beget nourish and bring up that people for himself but they were almost continually revolting from him and rebelling against him He did mighty things for them but they still forgot him He redeemed them by his outstretched Arm he fed them he defended them but they knew him not Isa 1.3 but decked themselves with the ornaments which they had from him and then lift up the heel against him Ezek. 16.7 c. Deut. 32.15 In plain terms they got what knowledge they could from him into their own vessels and then they could set up for themselves live of themselves without fresh bublings up of life from the spring from whence their knowledg came the Priests said not Where is the Lord but could handle the Law and teach the knowledge of it without him and the Prophets could prophesie by another Spirit Jer. 2.8 And thus the Lord God of life lived not in them but they lived upon such things as once came from the life but being separated from the spring were dead and nourished but the dead part in them the part estranged from God And thus though their professions were great and they multiplied prayers and sacrifices and fasts and drew nigh to God with their lips yet their hearts were far from him They had forsaken the Fountain they drank not of the waters of the spring of the rock that followed them but they drank of the waters of their own Cisterns They set up that knowledge of the Law for their light which they had hewed out with the tools of their own understanding without that spirit that wrote it This was Israels error of old they drank very zealously of the waters of the Law but they drank it not from he spring but out of the Cisterns which themselves had hewed And as it was thus with Israel of old so hath it been with Israel since The Christian Israel hath been alwaies back-sliding alwaies forgetting the Lord still getting what they could from him to live of themselves but refusing to live on h m getting what knowledge they could from the Scriptures without him getting what they could from their exercises and experiences but neglecting the sp●ing of their life And so this Israel also dies this Israel likewise withers and becomes a scorn to the beathen for though they speak great words of their God yet they themselves are but as the heathen uncircumcised like them unacquainted with the vertue power of life like them alwaies striving against sin in that which cannot conquer and so they also are slaves under their lusts and corruptions like the heathen and know not the truth which makes free indeed Exceeding great hath been the apostacy of this age Mighty was the appearance of God inwardly in his peoples Spirits mighty was the appearance of God outwardly in the Nation many waies and great hopes there was of a thorow reformation But how suddenly was the pure Spirit of the Lord forgotten and departed from and his work overturned both within and without inwardly in his peoples spirits and outwardly in the Nation whose revolting was but a type of the inward And how hath the Spirit of the Lord mourned after his people often reproving them for their back-slidings but they have been as Israel of old like the deaf Adder justifying themselves and complaining against the witnesses of God as Israel did against his Prophets who from the Lord testifie against them And it cannot be otherwise for the dead waters in Israels hewen Cisterns will never agree with the waters of the living Fountain but will withstand their testimony How shall the charmer charm wisely enough to make apostate Israel hearken to his voice I have not back slidden saith one in one form I have not back-slidden saith another in another form I am not back-slidden saith one in one notion I am not back slidden saith another in another notion I am believing hoping and waiting in what the Lord hath already revealed and following on to know him This hath been thy manner from thy youth that thou obedst not my word but still hast been justifying thy self as if thou hadst obeyed And yet your back-slidings are written upon your foreheads as with the point of a Diamond for who among you retains his freshnesse an evident demonstration that ye are departed from the spring and hold your knowledge experiences and h pes in the dead part and your chiefest prop of comfort is the remembrance of what ye once had Ah poor barren dead souls is this your best support Return return enter into the house of mourning and let the living lay it to heart A Lamentation with a call to mourning and Lamentation c. O Israel the royal seed the plant of renown the living off-spring of eternity O daughter of Sion who didst once shine with

A. Letting in the light which convinceth of and warreth against sin the life stirs and is felt and the life leads to the word which was in the beginning and gives the feeling of that also And in the word the righteousnesse the peace the wisdom the power the love is felt and he is made all these to those who are led into and kept in the light And when the powers of darknesse appear with mighty dread and there is no strength to withstand them this lifts up a standard against them and calms all the tempests and cures all the wounds and diseases of the soul anointing it with the everlasting oil so that now I can sensibly and with clear understanding call it my Saviour the Captain of my salvation my Christ or anointed my Husband my King my Lord my God Q. Where doth this light shine A. In the darknesse at first but when it hath vanquished expelled and dispersed the darknesse it shines out of it Q. What is that darkness wherein the light shines A. Man mans heart mans conscience mans spirit This is the world which Christ the Sun of righteousnesse is the light of in every part whereof he causeth the rayes or beams of his light to shine at his pleasure though in no part the darknesse can comprehend the least shining of his light Q. How then can it ever be converted thereby A. The darknesse is not to be converted Every man in this state is reprobated and the wrath abideth on him So that the darknesse is rejected and man in the darknesse but man touched by the light made sensible of it and following it in the life and power which it begets is drawn out of the horrible pit and saved Q How may I do to find the light in the midst of the da●kness of my heart which is so great and this seed so small A. By its discovering and warring against the darknesse There is somewhat which discovereth both the open and secret iniquity of the corrupt heart following it under all its coverings of zeal holinesse and all manner of voluntary humility and self righteousnesse with which the true light ●●ver had unity and sometimes may cause secret misgivings that all is not well but there may be a flaw found in this covering and in the end it may prove too narrow for the soul This which thus warreth against the darknesse to bring people off from all false foundations to the true and living foundation this is the light and thus thou maist find it at some time or other at work in thy heart if thou mind it Q. Having found the light how may I come to feel the saving vertue and power of it A. By believing in it For the vertue and power springs up in the heart that believes in it Q. How can I believe in it am not I dead A. There is a creating a quickning power in the light which begets a little life and that can answer the voice of the living power Q. Yea If I could finde any such thing begotten in me then I might be drawn to assent that that though never so small might believe but surely my dead heart never can A. Hast thou never found a true honest breathing towards God hast thou never found sin not an imaginary but a real burthen This was from life there was somewhat begotten of God in thee which felt this It was not flesh blood in thee but somwhat from above And if this had known the spring of its life and not been deceived from it by the subtilty it would have fed upon and have grown up in the vertue and power of the spring from whence its life came Q. Why then by this all men have power to believe A. In the light which shines in all and visits all there is the power and this power strives with the creature to work it self into the creature and where there hath been the least breathing after life there hath been a taste of the power for this came from it But the great deceiver of souls lifts up mens mind in the imagination to look for some great appearance of power and so they slight and overlook the day of small things and neglect receiving the beginnings of that which in the issue would be the thing they look for Waiting in that which is low and little in the heart the power enters the seed grows the Kingdom is felt and daily more and more revealed in the power And this is the true way and door to the thing take heed of climbing over it Q. What is it to believe in the light A. To receive its testimony either concerning good or evil and so either to turn towards or from in the will and power which the light begets in the heart Q. How will this save me A. By this means that in thee which destroys thee and separates thee from the living God is daily wrought out and the heart daily changed into the Image of him who is light and brought into unity and fellowship with the light possessing of it and being possessed by it and this is Salvation Q. We thought salvation had been a thing to be bestowed hereafter after the death of the body but if it be thus then salvation is wrought out here A. So it is even in all that are saved for there is no working of it out hereafter but here it is wrought out with fear and trembling and the believer who is truly in unity with the life daily changed from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord. Q. But shew more particularly how Faith or believing in the light worketh out the Salvation A. First it causeth a fear and trembling to seize upon the sinner The Lord God Almighty by the rising of his light in the heart causeth the powers of darknesse to shake the earth to tremble the hills and mountains to melt and the goodly fruit-Trees to cast their fruit And then the plant of the Lord springs up out of the dry and barren ground which by the dews and showers from above thrives grows and spreads till it fills Gods earth 2. In this fear and trembling the work of true repentantance and conversion is begun and carried on There is a turning of the Soul from the darknesse to the light from the dark power to the power of light from the spirit of deceit to the Spirit of truth from all false appearances and imaginations about holiness to that which the eternal light manifesteth to be truly so And now is a time of mourning of deep mourning while the separtion is working while the enemies strength is not broken and subdued and while the heart is now and then feeling it self still hankering after its old lovers 3. In the belief of the light and in the fear placed in the heart there springs up an hope a living hope in the living principle which hath manifested it self and begun to work For the Soul truly turning to