The Works Of The Long Mournful And Sorely Distressed Isaac Penington Whom The Lord In His Tender Mercy At Length Visited And Relieved By The Minist

Author : Isaac Penington
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333429195
Total Pages : 562 pages
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Download or read book The Works of the Long-Mournful and Sorely-Distressed Isaac Penington, Whom the Lord, in His Tender Mercy, at Length Visited and Relieved by the Ministry of That Despised People Call'd Quakers, Vol. 4 written by Isaac Penington and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of the Long-Mournful and Sorely-Distressed Isaac Penington, Whom the Lord, in His Tender Mercy, at Length Visited and Relieved by the Ministry of That Despised People Call'd Quakers, Vol. 4: And in the Springings of That Light, Life, and Holy Power in Him, Which They Had Truly and Faithfully Testified Of, and Directed His Mind To, Were These Things Written Now there is fomewhat revealed of God, of his own nature, power, and Spirit, wherein we have met with him. To this we invite, of this we fpeak, con cerning this we teltify, as being that which the Father will honour, and wherein he huh and will appear. It is a poor, weak, low thing to confider of, or behold with the eye and underl'tanding of man; but there is the riches, the glory, the life, the righteoufnefs, the peace, the joy, the everlafling power of the kingdom 111 it; and to them that receive it in the demonliration of God's Spirit, and in the love of it, it is the wifdom of God and his power to the redemption and falvation of their fouls. Indeed of all the wife builders (out of the true fenfe and power) it is rejected at this day, as it always was old; but to us who are called of, God, taught by him, who have received an Under fianding from im, &c. We know the value of that which comes from him, being infirue'ted by him not to judge according to the a pearance, but t the righteous judgment; an in the righteous JU ment; in the balance of the fane'tuary, we find little defpifed light to be elect and precious, even the; foundation-rom, the comer-none, and the top-{tone of the building (if God. And this we tefiify to men in true 'lgve, and from certain knowledge and expe ricuce whichiwe have'received fror'rfhim'that is true, and hold in him that is true. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."