The axe laid to the root of the old corrupt-tree, and the spirit of deceit struck at in its nature from whence all the error from the life, among both papists and Protestants hath arisen, and by which it is nourished and fed at this day, in a distinction between the faith which is of man, and the faith which is of God ... / by ... Isaac Penington the younger.

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The axe laid to the root of the old corrupt-tree, and the spirit of deceit struck at in its nature from whence all the error from the life, among both papists and Protestants hath arisen, and by which it is nourished and fed at this day, in a distinction between the faith which is of man, and the faith which is of God ... / by ... Isaac Penington the younger.

Author

Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.

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London :: Printed and are to be sold by Lodowick Lloyd ...,

1659.

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Society of Friends -- Doctrines.

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"The axe laid to the root of the old corrupt-tree, and the spirit of deceit struck at in its nature from whence all the error from the life, among both papists and Protestants hath arisen, and by which it is nourished and fed at this day, in a distinction between the faith which is of man, and the faith which is of God ... / by ... Isaac Penington the younger." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54024.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• THE PREFACE
• A Distinction between the faith which is of man, and the faith which is of GOD: One whereof is the Faith of Sion, the other the Faith of Babilon; the one laying hold on Christ, as he is revealed the King of life in Si∣on, the other layes hold on an Historicall rela∣tion of Christ, the fame whereof hath sounded in Babilon.
• SOME Assertions concerning faith, its nature, rise, &c. with its receiving of Christ, and what fol∣lows thereupon, namely, a growing in his living vertue, with a knowledge of the true, living, un∣erring rule, and an obedience to it in the life.
  • Assertion I.
  • II.
  • III.
  • IV.
  • V.
  • VI.
  • VII.
  • VIII.
  • IX.
  • X.
  • XI.
• A Necessary warning, and of very great impor∣tance to all that call themselves Christians, and hope for a share in the book of life, and the esca∣ping the damnation of hell, which is their porti∣on whose names are written in the booke of death, and blotted by God out of the book of life, though they hope to find them written there. Here and consider.
• A Brief History of the state of the Church since the dayes of the Apostles, with the living seal to it, which he that hath eternall life abiding, in him, can read and witnes; but that wisdom zeal and devotion which is in the death, cannot.
• AN Exhortation, relating to the workings of the mistery of Iniquity; and the mistery of godlinesse in this present age.