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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
body_n	nature_n	soul_n	unite_v	6,882	5	9.6339	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54425	Beames of eternal brightness, or, Branches of everlasting blessings springing forth of the stock of salvation, to be spread over India and all nations of the earth, to the uniting all mankind as one single and simple body of everlasting love and peace in the original glory and creator of all things / written by a member of truth, John, who is called a Quaker.	J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?	1661 (1661)	Wing P1613; ESTC R2898	32,075	40

them and dwelling in it as He abideth and resteth in Himself will come to see themselves swallowed up as in a bottomless and endless Ocean in the same property of his Nature viz. in Everlasting Peace of the Soul felt and enjoyed inwardly which will wrap up all Souls in such a height above disquiet or any thing of that Nature that is adulterated from the Holy Similitude that all will chuse that their Earthly Members may dye that their Souls may for ever possesse the Peace rather than to live in the body of flesh to break the Peace of their particular Souls or the Peace of any of the Souls of the Spiritual Body of Peace to whom in the Eternal Peace they are united which is the immeasurable state of Blessing passing all Understanding 2. Another Property of the Nature of the Holy One is Love perfect Love without Hypocrisie or Envy in Himself All therefore uniting unto the Power of Restoration unto the Glorious Likeness will come to see the Eternal Love feeding and saving his Enemies and the Restored being of the same Similitude of their Maker must in that respect do as their Creator doth love and feed Enemies for they cannot do otherwise being of the Bowels of their Maker And whilst this Spirit loveth Enemies much more must love the united in the Love unto it if it cannot hate not envy Enemies much less the united Friends But all in this Spirit are full partakers of the unspeakable Bowels of Eternal Love to each other which is the immeasurable state of Blessing passing all Understanding 3. Another Property of the Nature of the Holy One is Mercy perfect Mercy without passion of Cruelty in Himself All therefore joyning to the Power of the New Creation will come to see the Power of Mercy which is able to rent all Hearts perceiving it for whilst Man hath turned in Cruelty even unto murder of the sighing and groaning measure of the Light in himself against his Creator who first gave the measure in the bounty of his Everlasting Love that Man by it should be led to be like Him the Giver of it in holy merciful bowels Yet as in Mercy upon Mercy hath now lastly provided Him a Voice to call unto it as a crying Bloodshed upon the Earth and also to awaken his Bloody Soul that shed it drawing his Soul near unto it to reconcile himself with the Soul in and by it though the Soul hath treacherously dealt with him and murtherously fought in Rebellion against him This shews Mercy to Enemies Pitty to Rebels Compassion to Bloody Traytors wherefore as all come to Unite unto the Power of Mercy to be led into the true Image and accordingly in Union with the Eternal Fountain of Mercy not one will be able in it to do a thing contrary to the nature of it But the whole World comes to be as one intire glorious Body of Mercy Pitty and Compassion whereby no Distress Languishing Want or Misery will be found upon the face of the Earth which is the immeasurable state of Blessing passing all Understanding Haply some may say Quest That it is evident that Peace Love and Mercy is the immeasurable state of Blessing passing all understanding and therefore Discord Envy and Cruelty being the three quallities in contrariety must be the woful estate of the Curse yet may desire more largely to know How the Curse came through an opening of the Original Cause and Universal Chain of Discord Envy and Cruelty which is the Cursed State Introd There is but One Original Good as I have plainly manifested who created all things and put into his creature Man that living part that sensibly thinketh which is called the Soul and Mind the which he created in an infinite degree below his immutable holy Essence who can never change from his pure Nature to think in Himself a thought of Evil yet he knoweth the thoughts of Evil in every Man's Heart For though He made it in his likeness pure clean holy innocent and wise yet made it in none other state than that he ought to know that it had a Creator and Maker and by whose Power that made it could only be kept and preserved in the similitude of Him that created it for being put into a body of flesh he gave it a sense of Feeling there as likewise in it a sence of the rest of the Creation as Beasts Fishes Fowls c. to whom this was the substance of the first Comandment given him in his state of Innocency That he should not go in his Mind out from the Power that created him a living Soul into the flesh for knowledge or pleasure for thereby he should adulterate his Soul with the flesh and so both the Soul and the flesh become a Corruption and Curse of Death and in so doing he should go from the Likeness of his Creator who cannot go out of Himself into any creature for knowledge or pleasure But Man's Soul entring into consultation with an aspiring Concupiscence in the feeling of his own flesh yeelded to know and gave himself thereinto and so became as a wedded spouse unto Corruption in that day was his first Evil and the Birth of the first Devil whereby it may be understood that the Eternal Wisdom never derogated from his Glory of Holiness in the Creation so as that any man may say he created a Devil immediately in his hand which could never be as I have formerly shewed more largely by his Eternal Holiness Immutablity and Wisdom but creating all things in themselves mutable even Man's innocent Soul also in it self mutable as well as any other of the Creatures and reserving Immutability onely in himself that Man might know Him as his Maker and so live only in Him as the Immutable One in his Holiness Wisdom Life Glory and Joy but he letting forth his Mind out of the Immutable Power of Wisdom and Preservation became as aforesaid an Evil-doer and then his Thoughts were not like unto the Thoughts of his Maker nor his Knowledge nor Nature like unto that in which he was created but all his Faculties alienated degenerated and separated in the Adulteration from the Likeness Life and immutable Power and Wisdom of his Creator so that being the first actual Evil must needs be the birth of the first Devil seeing the Devil is that Mind that doth evil in every man and therefore nothing could be called an Evil-doer until an Evil was first done and committed which I speak to the end of stopping and putting an end to all blasphemous suppositions and imaginations and of sanctifying the Name of the Holy One in the eyes of all Nations whilst I speak of Him in the Glorious Power of His Wisdom in the Work of his Creation Thus then as followeth in Answer Man's Adulteration from the vertue of the Life of his Maker alienated the Faculties of his Soul and brought upon it horrid Darkness and Confusion which spread over him as an extream and

sets free in the liberty from Sin and unites the Soul to the Original Glory from whence it is descended Wherefore this appears to be the true and undeceivable Hope in which the Soul witnesseth its Purification and the true Faith which gives Victory over Sin which is the Blessed State but all other Faith and Hope in the Life of Corruption under the Power of Darkness is that which deceivably perisheth the Soul and is the Cursed State Yet besides this Declaration of the Power which unto every Rational Intellect may appear plain clear and manifest doubtless thousands who of a truth this day do live in the Light and are directly led and guided by it together with this Witness can experimentally testifie at large that they in substance Truth and very deed have found and constantly do find it redeeming delivering and saving them from all verbal and actual Sin and from all resignations of mind unto Sin in which formerly they were held under a woful Captivity by the predominating Power of Darknesse these therefore are they to whom the true and living Sun of the Soul is truly and rightly known who answerably to the true and living knowledge do worship in the true and living Way and these are all of one mind and soul living joyntly and unanimously in one individual Spirit of Brightness which created all Souls and in this Life are at peace together for ever So here are no Quarrellings nor Wranglings Stirs Brauls Fightings suing nor persecuting one another for the visible created things which in the Worlds nature are corruptible and cursed neither can such a thing be among them because the free Law that is in them leads to the nourishing and cherishing each other as flesh of the same flesh and bone of the same bone being all Members but of one incorruptible body And ye know that no man hateth his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it much more therefore they though many yet being moulded from the corruptible into the incorruptible Spirit of Light and Glory are become but one living in the Unity which is everlasting as Members meetly composed to shew forth the Glory of the Eternal Sun of the Soul in the endless Life of Love Concord and Peace Thus having shewed the Way or Redemption from Sin and sanctifying the Soul unto its Creator which leads unto the true Knowledge in a pure Union with its Creator I would next shew the true and living Worship according to the true Knowledge which I have received from him in the true Way The first step of which as I have before said is To bow down and encline the Mind unto the Light which inwardly enlighteneth the Soul and the next step after bowing down the Mind unto it is To wait in it to know the Mind made subject in all Obedience unto it whereby the perfect work of Sanctification may be thorowly wrought in you that ye may be all made meet Vessels Tabernacles and Temples to receive the Virtue into which make the Sacrifice Service and Worship accepted of the Holy Eternal Power before whom you draw near to offer for except the Sacrificers and Worshipers be of the nature of the Holy Power to whom they sacrifice that their Worships may be performed in the same both the Adorations and the Adorers are but a stink in the pure sence of the holy Life of the Eternal Power and Sun of the Soul and this you may all easily know for if you put Christal Water into a stinking noysom unprepared Vessel the Water immediately corrupteth and partaketh of the stink of the Vessel and being poured forth is unfit then to be put into another clean Vessel lest that Water that was first sweet in its own simple nature should defile the other Vessel thereby and the like is if Excremental Water should be first put into a clean Vessel c. And since it is so much lesse then can Corrupt Sacrifices or Sacrificers have any Acceptance with the Holy One for in such a thing he should be no more Holy but as one that is joyned in unity with the Defiled and Unclean which thing can never be because as I have shewed of his Eternity and Immutability But ye by waiting in the Light in all pure and living Obedience wi●l come as pre-cited unto the true purification and Renovation of the whole Mind and Soul which bears the fleshly Tabernacle or Temple about it Again Waiting in the Light with your Minds turned in all singlness into it in your inward parts being patient in that state and condition of Waiting and standing a while in holy Content in that step of the true Worship of the Eternal Power who spake to the Hebrews saying To obey is better than Sacrifice you will at length in His Glorious good Pleasure come to feel the Rising of His Glorious Power in you which Appearance I call The Dawning of the Everlasting Day for it is to be understood that all the time of the Darknesse is the time of the Night of which Sin and Corruption are the Clouds which bar and bolt men from the Glory of the shining Day yet in that state of the night there is a secret power set to rule which dispensation is called the Light of the Moon that as the visible Moon was created to rule the Night in the visible appearance even so the Invisible Light was put into the Invisible Soul to rule in the time of darkness and ignorance by which power though the whole world stands in a Chaos of Confusions and because of the darkness they know it not yet the World is preserved so as that every man thirsteth not after the blood of his neighbour which if there were not an invisible and secret Power of the Light ruling in the darkness of the Night the whole Earth would outwardly become as an Ocean of Violation and her face be overwhelmed with Blood yea what might I say Murders would reduce all men to the last man and what would he do even Murder himself also under despairation of the former works of his hands But all men now coming to grow in mind and soul out of the Night into the glorious Light of the Sun of the Soul which opens the Everlasting Day through waiting in it will come to feel the rising of the Power unto a greater beauty and splendor whereby they will come to see the Light of the Moon to become as the Light of the Sun which is arisen in the open day and finding the operation of it encreasing in the inward parts breaking them forth either into brokenness and contriteness of heart or the spiritual praise of the Eternal power or forcing them to pour forth Supplications and Prayers unto Him or in his dread to sound the Trumpet of his Voice declaring his Jubilee and acceptable year which is at hand this I still call the rising of the Eternal Sun in his glory and brightness in them and they in this performing the duty required