Naked truth, or, Truth nakedly manifesting itself in several particulars for the removing of hinderances out of the way of the simple-hearted, that they may come to true knowledge, life, liberty, peace and joy in the Lord, through the vertue and power of his precious truth, revealed and working in them : given forth by way of question and answer : whereunto are added, some experiences, with some Scriptures very sweet, and necessary to be experienced in the Gospel-state : as also, a few words concerning the true Christ, and a few words in the bowels of tender love and good will to my native country / by a long mourner and traveller after, but as length an happy experiencer of the truth, as it is in Jesus, Isaac Pennington.

II. Concerning the Illuminating Spirit, and Sanctifying Spirit.

Quest. Whether the Illuminating and Sancti∣fying Spirit be one and the same Spirit or no? Because it is affirmed by some (and written by one to me as a sound distinction of Divines, which distinction, he saith, he hath a mind I should learn) that there is a Spirit of Sanctification, and that is peculiar to the Godly; and there is a Spirit illuminating, and that is oft vouchsafed to the wicked, as it was to Balaam.

Answ. The Spirit which illuminateth and the Spirit which sanctifieth, is one and the same Spirit: and the illumination of the Spirit is in order unto Sanctification. The same Light

which discovereth the Darkness, also chaseth away the Darkness, as it is received and subject∣ed to, and purifieth the mind: for the Light hath not only a property of enlightening, but also of cleansing and sanctifying. And the rea∣son why Men are not changed, justified and sanctified in and by the Light, is because they love it not, and bring not their hearts and deeds to it, and so it is their reprover and condemner, and not their Justifier and Sanctifier. But the same Spirit, Light and Life, which Enlighten∣eth, also Sanctifieth; and there is not another.