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' (peak, con cerning this we teltify, as being that which the Father will honour, and wherein he hath and will appear. It is a poor, weak, low thing to confider of, or behold with the eye and underftanding of man; but there is the riches, the glory, the life, the ri'ghteoufnefs, the peace, the joy, the everlafiing power of the kingdom, wit; and to them that receive it in the demonftration of God's Spirit, and in the love of it, it is'the wifdoni 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 tmdera fianding from im, &c. We know the value of that which comes from him, being infirueted 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 fanetuary, w;e.find fl little defpifed light to be elecft and precious, even the foundation-bone, the corner-ftone, and the top-it'one of the building of God. And this we tefiify to men in true ilo'veyand from certain knowledge and expe ricuce which'we have'received frotri'hirn'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.