tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26408970284596538882024-03-07T22:44:27.869-08:00Isaac Pennington DocumentsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2640897028459653888.post-14852984939746628662019-08-26T13:11:00.000-07:002019-08-28T05:44:30.566-07:00Queries concerning the saving nature of the blood of Jesus.<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansPro-Regular;">
<em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Quer</em> 17. Can outward blood cleanſe the Conſcience? ye that are ſpiritual conſider, (Can outward water waſh the <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Soul</em> clean?) Ye that have ever felt the blood of fprinkling from the Lord upon your Conſciences, and your Conſciences cleanſed thereby; did ye ever feel it to be outward? <u>It is one thing what a man apprehends (in the way of notion ) from the Letter concerning the things of God, and another thing what a man feels in <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Spirit</em></u>.</div>
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<em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Quer</em>. 18. Seeing the Apoſte ſpeaks of purifying the Heavenly things themſelves, Ebr. 9. 23. It would ſerouſly be inquired into, and the Lord waited on to know, what nature theſe Sacrifices muſt be of, which cleanſe the Heavenly things? Whether they muſt not of neceſſity be Heavenly? If ſo, then whether was it the fleſh and blood of the Vail, or the fleſh and blood within the, Vail? Whether was it the fleſh and blood of the outward earthly Nature, or the fleſh and blood of the inward ſpiritual Nature? Whether was it the fleſh and blood of the ſecond <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Adams</em>Nature?</div>
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Source: <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">A Question to the Professors of Christianity, Whether they have the True, Loving, Powerful saving Knowledge of Christ or no?</em> by Isaac Penington, pg. 25, London 1667.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2640897028459653888.post-79253877191630760192019-06-28T11:45:00.000-07:002019-06-28T11:46:11.825-07:00The other thing than the measure of Life.But that which pretends to ſet up the meaſure of Life as a Teacher, otherwiſe than God hath appointed, and in oppoſition to the Teaching and Miniſtry which he hath appointed, and to his Gift in thoſe Veſſels, which is as well for the building up and perfecting of the Body, as for the gathering: <u>That is another thing in that Veſſel that doth ſo, than the meaſure of Life; another Spirit, another Nature, another Ear than that, that firſt heard. And though it ſeem to cry up the ſufficiency of the meaſure of Life, and to plead for that (and perhaps the creature thinks it is really ſo: yet that is not the intent of the Spirit in the Veſſel</u>, but to cry up itſelf, and to make its voice go for the Voice of the Meaſure of Life : and ſo ſuch err from the Faith, the Truth, the Spirit, the meaſure of Life, and are in the nature, ſpirit and meaſure of another thing, which is indeed Death, though they ſee it not, but look upon themſelves as gloriouſly living, and abiding in the pure Doctrine and Principle above others. <a href="http://isapenlit.blogspot.com/p/some-queries-concerning-order-and.html#XR7216">View in Source Document</a><br />
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Source: <i>Some Queries Concerning the Order and Government of the Church of Christ</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2640897028459653888.post-1306005371482813852019-06-27T13:34:00.002-07:002019-06-28T11:50:20.369-07:00The Way of Independency<u style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: SourceSansPro-Regular; font-size: 18px;">Yea, and this I very well remember, that when I walked in the way of Independency (as it hath been commonly called) I had more unity with, and more love towards, such as were single-hearted in other ways and practices of worship (whose spirits I had some feeling of in the true simplicity, and in the life) than with divers of such who were very knowing and zealous in that way of Independency, in whom a wrong thing in the mean time had got up, which had caused them to swerve from the life, and from the simplicity</u><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansPro-Regular; font-size: 18px;">. </span><a href="http://isapenlit.blogspot.com/p/the-authority-and-government-which.html#XR1127">View in Source Document</a><br />
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Source: <i>The Authority and Government which Christ Excluded out of his Church</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2640897028459653888.post-20890814595000601022019-06-20T16:51:00.002-07:002019-06-21T07:05:58.657-07:00Exclusion of all Church Government <a href="http://isapenlit.blogspot.com/p/some-misrepresentations-of-me.html#XR4928">View in Source Document</a> Now, this latter part (about church-government) hath been so misrepresented, as if, because the wrong church government was excluded, the exclusion of all church-government was intended by me, there being no notice taken of my owning the true church-government, but only some passages of my disowning the false produced, as if they intended to overturn and deny all church-government, which never was intended by me: for in that very book, which is thus made use of, I did positively affirm the necessity and use of the true church-government, which may more fully appear in that which hereafter follows.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2640897028459653888.post-19120518942516787602019-06-20T16:38:00.000-07:002019-06-22T18:10:22.507-07:00The voice of God in others not to be neglected. Source: <i>Some Misrepresentations of me Concerning Church Government</i>.<br />
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<a href="http://isapenlit.blogspot.com/p/some-misrepresentations-of-me.html#XR6924">View in Source Document</a> "Yet in none of these dispensations was any testimony from God to be despised; but his voice to be heard in the prophets, in Christ, and in the apostles. <u>And though men are blessedly and gloriously turned, and to be turned to the light within, in these our days; yet they are not thereby taught to neglect or despise the voice of God, in any whom he sends and speaks by, and pretend it is contrary to their light; but to lie low before the Lord, that in the true humility and holy fear, they may know the voice of the Shepherd, both in their own hearts, and in whomsoever he pleaseth to speak</u>. <u>For the great Almighty God is not limited, but he may speak in and through whom he pleaseth</u>. He may speak to me from the anointing in my own heart, and the holy anointing may please to speak to me through others; and so far as I am of God, and sensible of his appearance, I cannot despise the voice of the anointing in my own heart, or through others. Yea, truth teacheth that modesty, temperance, humility, tenderness, and sobriety, that I dare not despise the voice that pretends to the anointg in any, until I have made trial of it. Yea, John Pennyman’s voice and testimony I durst not condemn, until the Lord my God, in the unerring light and pure springing life, manifested unto me that it was not of him, but of the transforming enemy, who had bewitched and deceived him by his strong delusions (he forsaking the rock, which would have been his strength), to receive and believe a lie instead of the truth."<br />
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<a name='more'></a>"Oh, blessed be the Lord for the building up such a church, and speaking to us through his church! And happy are they that hear her voice, and so keep to their own, as to know the voice of their own in the church, and are not through temptation prejudiced against it. For it is the Lord’s gathering, and the Lord is with it; and the people who have been gathered by the Lord, and are daily taught by him, keep with him. And though some may depart from us, and, through error of judgment, testify against us, yet truth abides, and the Lord’s people abide with the truth, and his building goeth on, and the holy government of his Son increaseth in it, and the Lord appears more and more inwardly in his glory, as the hearts of his people are made capable to receive it from him. And in all the goings out of any, and apostasies that have been in any, through hearkening to a wrong spirit, they that have heard and reverenced the voice and testimony of the church, and God’s chosen and blessed ministry, which he hath raised among us, have still been preserved; and they that have gone therefrom been betrayed. And it is my faith, this church of God’s gathering shall still be preserved, and grow in the holy dominion and authority of God’s blessed Spirit; and that all her enemies shall be found liars unto her, and she shall tread upon their high places, and shall grow and prosper the more by all opposition; the everlasting arm and wisdom of the Almighty being with her, to preserve, prosper, and bless her, so be it. Amen."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2640897028459653888.post-53975892130503943662019-06-20T15:28:00.001-07:002019-06-26T22:27:08.118-07:00It is antichrist that so vainly pretends to set up Christ, or his light, or Spirit, or power, as to deny those that are sent of him, and minister in his name. <a href="http://isapenlit.blogspot.com/p/somewhat-related-to-church-government.html#XR5926">View in Source Document</a><br />
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Source: <i>Somewhat Relating to Church Government</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2640897028459653888.post-64563628257988560762019-06-20T13:47:00.002-07:002019-06-27T13:30:16.465-07:00Grow above the Church“Now, if any, in Lucifer’s nature, will hearken to that spirit which despiseth God’s church, and rend from it, and think to grow above it, and expect this growth in their high motions and comprehensions about things, in that exalted mind, should be owned by the church, they will be mistaken: for the true Spirit, which knows all things, and guides the church, will not guide the church to own any such spirit or growth; but to judge and condemn it in its greatest spreading and exaltation. <a href="http://isapenlit.blogspot.com/p/somewhat-related-to-church-government.html#XR1903">View in Source Document</a><br />
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Source: <i>Somewhat Relating to Church Government</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2640897028459653888.post-40430706623002360442019-06-20T10:30:00.000-07:002019-06-26T22:12:06.548-07:00Out of the Spirit of life of the church ..."But if he intend the growth of any departing from the church, or out of the Spirit of life of the church, who hath her life from the Head, and is in unity with the Head, that growth we cannot but deny, finding it by constant trial and experience to be a growth in notion and comprehension, out of the feeling life and power." <a href="http://isapenlit.blogspot.com/p/somewhat-related-to-church-government.html#XR1408">View in Source Document</a><br />
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"Now, this kind of growth I do not desire ever to know; the Lord also preserve others out of it, and open their ears to hear the voice of Christ, and of his church, that they may be preserved out of it! For had this been hearkened and kept to, things had been better with many, as to their inward state, and true peace with the Lord, than they have been."<br />
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Source: <i>Somewhat Relating to Church Government</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2640897028459653888.post-42430697432836774392019-06-20T08:49:00.000-07:002019-06-22T08:36:22.170-07:00The Life itself sufficient in itself to teach.“Did not the Apoſtles preach up the Meaſure of Life, the Grace of God in their day, Chriſt within, the Word of Faith nigh in the mouth and heart, the Anointing within, its ſufficiency to teach all things, &c. and yet did they ſo preach it, as to overthrow the Miniſtry, or their Gifts or Service, either towards them that were without or them that were within? Had they not power over them in the Lord?” <a href="http://isapenlit.blogspot.com/p/some-queries-concerning-order-and.html#XR4550">View in Source Document</a><br />
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Source: <i>Some Queries Concerning the Order and Government of the Church if Christ.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2640897028459653888.post-43677067273237366372019-06-20T08:27:00.002-07:002019-06-23T06:28:38.465-07:00The the Life itself in itself as complete Teacher."… that which pretends to ſet up the meaſure of Life as a Teacher, otherwiſe than God hath appointed, and in oppoſition to the Teaching and Miniſtry which he hath appointed, and to his Gift in thoſe Veſſels, which is as well for the building up and perfecting of the Body, as for the gathering: That is another thing in that Veſſel that doth ſo, than the meaſure of Life; another Spirit, another Nature, another Ear than that, that firſt heard. And though it ſeem to cry up the ſufficiency of the meaſure of Life, and to plead for that (and perhaps the creature thinks it is really ſo: yet that is not the intent of the Spirit in the Veſſel, but to cry up itſelf, and to make its voice go for the Voice of the Meaſure of Life : and ſo ſuch err from the Faith, the Truth, the Spirit, the meaſure of Life, and are in the nature, ſpirit and meaſure of another thing, which is indeed Death, though they ſee it not, but look upon themſelves as gloriouſly living, and abiding in the pure Doctrine and Principle above others." <a href="http://isapenlit.blogspot.com/p/some-queries-concerning-order-and.html#XR7216">View in Source Document</a><br />
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Source: <i>Some Queries Concerning the Order and Government of the Church if Christ.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2640897028459653888.post-27011083133481803162019-06-20T06:00:00.002-07:002019-06-20T06:00:36.627-07:00The Sufficiency of the Life itself in itself"The ſufficiency of the Grace of God, turned to and waited upon, there is nothing in my heart either to undervalue myſelf, or to teach others ſo to do : Nor, when God did appoint a Miniſtry to gather and build up his Church, do I believe he did intend therein to undervalue the ſufficiency of his Grace: Yea, I Verily believe, that the Grace of God turned and hearkened to, and followed by any Soul in the darkeſt part of the Earth, hath ſufficiency in it to ſave, and will ſave that Soul, though there be none outwardly to miniſter to it or help it. Yet this I alſo believe, That as there is a ſufficiency in every meaſure of life, to the Work God hath appointed for that meaſure: ſo there is a greater ſufficiency the growth and fuller proportion of Life; and the leſſer, the weaker, the poor, the afflicted, the babes are to be helped by the ſtronger, eſpecially in their darkneſſes, afflićtions, temptations, &c. And fo the greater and ſtronger in the Life, Spirit and Power of the Lord, is a ſtrength and bleſfing to the weaker, which the weaker making uſe of in the guidance of the Spirit of the Lord (in the ſence and benefit of the ſweet help and relief which often the Lord pleaſeth to give forth there by) will find juſt cauſe and be often drawn to bleſſe the Name of the Lord for." <a href="http://isapenlit.blogspot.com/p/some-queries-concerning-order-and.html#XR4634">View Source Document</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0