Memoirs of the Life of Isaac Penington Author:Isaac Penington General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1831 Original Publisher: T. Kite Subjects: Quakers History / General Religion / Christianity / Quaker Religion / Christianity / Denominations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. W... more »hen you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: (d) Some Experiences which it hath pleased the Lord to give me concerning his way, his truth, his church, and people, against whom the gates of hell cannot prevail. In this review most of the tenets of the Society of Friends have been occasionally displayed. The postscript of the piece last mentioned relates to a subject which has often occasioned a sneer, and sets that subject in a clear light. On this account, and because it abounds with unbounded philanthropy, the reader will not probably be displeased to see here. " 1 do not say that I as a man am infallible, or that any of us as men are infallible; but God's light, God's grace, God's truth, God's Spirit, God's wisdom and power, is infallible; and so far as we partake of that, are gathered into and abide in that, we partake of that which is infallible. And Oh ! let not men rest in, or be contented with, that knowledge which is fallible, but press after unity and fellowship with the Lord in his infallible Spirit; there being no true union nor fellowship with Him in any thing that is fallible." " Oh! that Protestants, Papists, Jews, Turks, Indians, did all know and own this light, that there might be an end of the darkness and misery, wherewith mankind hath been so long overwhelmed; and happiness, both in particular nations and in the whole world, might be experienced in the stead thereof. For men's erring from the light and Spirit of God hath been the cause of all their misery; and their returning to the li...« less