Divine essays, or, Considerations about several things in religion of very deep and weighty concernment both in reference to the state of the present times, as also of the truth itself : with a lamenting and pleading postscript / by Isaac Penington (Junior) Esq.

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Divine essays, or, Considerations about several things in religion of very deep and weighty concernment both in reference to the state of the present times, as also of the truth itself : with a lamenting and pleading postscript / by Isaac Penington (Junior) Esq.

Author

Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.

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London :: Printed by John Macock for Giles Calvert ...,

1654.

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Society of Friends -- Doctrines.

Society of Friends -- Apologetic works.

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Contents

• title page
• The Contents.
• The Preface.
• Divine Essayes.
  • I. Of Knowledge in Generall.
  • II. Of Scripture-Knowledge.
  • III. Of Radical or Original Knowledg.
  • IV. Of the Word, the Spirit and Faith under each Admi∣nistration, both that of the Law, and that of the Gospel, with an hint at their further tendency.
    • 1. Of the Word.
    • 2. Of the Spirit.
    • 3. Of Faith.
  • V. Some few Observations touching the Principles of the Ranters.
  • VI. Of the Various false New-births and the true one, which are distinguished by their root and nature.
  • VII. Of the true Nature and Vertue of the King∣dom of GOD.
  • VIII. Of the weakness, uncertainty and invalidity of the Flesh, in reference to the things of God.
  • IX. Of the Certainty of Christ in his knowledge concerning the things of God, and particularly of his well-grounded te∣stimony concerning the way to life, and consequently of the certainty of the knowledg and testimony of his seed, in their generations, they being of the same nature and Life with him.
  • X. Of the Liberty of the Kingdom, which was outward and shadowy in that dispensation of the Gospel by Christ and his Apostles, but inward and substantial in the true seed, both before, then, and after that dispensation, yea and for ever: which Liberty, although it be very large, yet is limited by the Law of its own Life and Nature.
  • XI. Of the low Ebb, which the Lord Christ was brought to, by his Death and Sufferings.
  • XII. Of the low Estate, which the Seed of Christ are re∣duced unto, by their Death and Sufferings.
  • XIII. The Course and End of Man.
  • XIV. The happy End of the holy Nature and Course of the Seed of Life, which the Spirit of Life, through all the various dark paths of sin, death and misery, most faithfully guideth it unto: or, The sweet and happy End of the Righteous.
• A lamenting and pleading Postscript.
• ERRATA.
• Some Books extant of this Authors, to be had at Mr Giles Calvert's Shop at the black spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls.