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cause_n	death_n	law_n	sin_n	5,839	5	5.9889	4	true

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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

his Jealousie and it is his Day to work and none shall let and he which rules against Him he will remove from the Throne for He will set up an Everlasting Dominion and Government and of his own Scepter of Righteousness even from end unto end of the four Winds of the Heavens Seven-fold happy therefore is that Soul that beleives in Him and suffereth for his Righteousness sake And is it not an unspeakable shame to a Ruler to persecute innocent Souls new created Souls in the Glory of the similitude of their Maker Is it not a woful shame to Rulers to persecute them that watch to recompence good for evil and to shew the deeps of the bowels of Love and Mercy to such as heaped upon them extream weights of Oppression and Cruelty Can Rulers answer the bonds of humanity in such acts Nay How then can they answer the power of Sanctity in them For the sake of Edification of all Souls to Three Questions more I am drawn forth in the Light to answer Quest 1 What are the first powerful Operations of the Light in the Soul after Convincement of Sin Answ JUDGMENT CONDEMNATION and DEATH of the Mind of Transgression which must of necessity be for the cause of the Righteousness of the King of Glory unto whom no life in Sin and Corruption can unite for the Soul going into it went out from Him into the Enmity against Him and His Law of Righteousness and no part of that can ever enter into Him because it was never of Him and because He hath infused a righteous Law into the Inward parts of necessity therefore there must be a power of Judgement to execute the Righteousness of the Law in the place that it is put upon that which brake it which Power in Righteousness must absolutely bring Condemnation upon that mind which is the Transgressor in man and the Condemnation must as surely bring Death by the power of the Executor that no part of that Mind may evermore live but the Mind in which no Transgression is which was before Transgression was which must be perfectly wrought before Man can enter again into the first Similitude to unite with the King of Glory So here all may see the Judgement truly set up and executed in the inward parts bringing Death upon the Transgressor produced the benefit of a most Blessed Fruit viz. of Life Peace and Joy and openeth the door of the Fountain of Mercy giving the perfect knowledge thereof which then rejoyceth over Judgment for which cause of Mercy the Eternal Wisdom first instituted the Law and Power of Judgment to come fulfilling Righteousness in the Inward parts which thus appears bringing a Righteous Death upon an Unrighteous Life that by its Death a Righteous may for ever live wherein the Joy and Glory is partaked and inherited So then in the Judgment and Condemnation of that Life unto Death the Power and Glory of Mercy appeareth in the wonderful Wisdom that it might be for ever loved and lived in and the work of Wisdom admired and prized and the Worker of Salvation in the Power and most Excellent Glory of Mercy manifest in Judgement magnified over all everlastingly without end in all that love the Operation and accordingly are partakers of the sweet and happy Fruit of its Salvation in which the Unity with the King of Glory is witnessed Quest 2 Of every frame of Soul or fashion of Mind in Man which is the most certain of holding the Vnion and Fellowship with the King of Glory in Spirit Answ Watchfulness in Fear and Crosse Watch to fear the risings of the Concupisence which the Soul feeleth in the flesh towards the flesh and the World and also now lastly towards the Devil and there enter into that Internal Power which stands in the Crosse to the other Nature which will daily slay every carnal Affection in the first suggestion and appearance and break the Cockatrices Egg before the Serpent is hatched and thus all will come to see that the inward and visible Cross to the inward Mind of the World and the Flesh keeps the Soul clean out of the mind of the World and the Flesh in the mind of the Eternal Spirit Again Watch to fear in every Joy and Enjoyment of every Glorious and Heavenly Gift lest the Joy should slip out of the true measure and a sence of the Glory of the Gift exalt the Heart above the measure of the Light through which it comes and in which the Unity with the King of Glory stands and here all which come to see that Fear keeps every Joy and Enjoyment of Heavenly Gifts perfect to the measure wherein all Perfection is witnessed according to the proportion of all Gifts as they are given and come down from the perfect Giver So then the invisible Cross which keeps clean and Fear that keeps the Soul low and humble to the measure within in the Conscience will alwayes be found the safest frame and fashion of every man's mind to hold the most certain Vnion and Fellowship with the King of Glory as long as they are cloathed with the body of flesh untill it turns to the dust from whence it came and the Soul be from thenceforth cloathed and arrayed with the Glory of the Life of the King of Glory even for ever and evermore Quest Whether Man after being restored unto the Brightness of the first Similitude and entred into Unity with the Incorruptible Glory through death of the degenerated part may not fail from the Glory and enter again into the Degeneration and Curse Answ In the work of Creation it is to be known as formerly mentioned that the Soul of Man simply was not created immutable though clean pure and holy in a state of Innocency for the Eternal Wisdom reserved that Virtue Power and most glorious Property of Immutability in Himself only that He above all things might be known as the Supream Power over all the created things and accordingly feared loved obeyed and lived in which state I have shewed Man went out of and degenerated from and also have opened the direction unto the way and power of Redemption from the fall and losse and Restoration unto the first Similitude of the Holy One which unites with the Incorruptible Glory unto which state it is possible in the Light for all Mankinde to attain yet if they abide not in the immutable Power of Perservation that created their Souls but go from the unchangeable Life into the variable consultation with Flesh and its reason and sensual Wisdom they may return backwards as the Sea Locust and Canker and become as the Swine that was once washed but lo wallows again in the mire and the house may be clean swept yet except there be a Watch still kept seven unclean Spirits may enter that are worse than the former which were driven forth and a Virgin state may be attained unto but unless the Oyl of Wisdom in Watchfulness Diligence and Fear be

and nature they are In order therefore to the true and pure Knowledge of the eternal Sun of the soul it is absolutely necessary for all people to understand That nothing corruptible can see that Glory and Brightness which is incorruptible to discern aright what it is that they may not be alwayes seeking and never come to find and ever learning but never able to come to the true Knowledge seeking in the backward way and learning in a Book of Lyes And next to know that man's station is in sin and corruption in absolute contrariety to the Pure Nature of Incorruption and consequently hath no unity with the Glory of the Incorruptible One nor hath the true knowledge of Him and therefore in worshipping he worshippeth he knows not what which if contrariwise all were united in the Life to the Life and Glory of the Eternal Sun and Power then would they all know that Incorruptible One and accordingly worship in the true Knowledge of Him who is the Eternal Brightness Glory and Power over all things Seeing then that no man knowes aright but he which is redeemed out of Corruption and consequently not worshippeth aright being in Corruption the next thing that is needful to be informed of is Quest How and by what means all men may come to be redeemed out of the state of Corruption thereby to have a true knowledge of and unity in Life with the Incorruptible One and so to worship aright By which assuredly all Nations will come to be of One heart mind and soul seeing the cause of Variations and Divisions may hereby be perceived to stand in the Life and Nature of Corruption Sin and Transgression which if all come to be redeemed out of and united to the Life Power and Glory of the Incorruptible One must infallibly be united to each other being all in Him who is but one in Love Peace pure Life and Nature To which purpose and glorious matter tending to the everlasting Blessing of all Nations and Peoples upon the face of the Earth I as followeth hold forth and shew that plain and easie path of which it was prophesied to the Jews that it should be revealed in which the wayfaring men though fools cannot erre which leadeth out of Transgression into a pure life of Incorruption Of which perfect happy way I speak to every Conscience of man to whom this shall come that it may witness in themselves to this living and pure Path of the glorious Sun of the Soul and Eternal Power of Creation whereby all shall be for ever left without Excuse in the sight of the Eternal Sun who hate and refuse the way and by the Power of the Eternal Sun shall be judged condemned and cast out for ever from the Eternal Life and Glory thereof Introd Man into whom a rational Soul is infused by the Eternal Power who created him which is more than the Beasts or any other creatures have yet is brutish in his understanding and knowledge occasioned through the Law or rather lawlessness of his Lusts which as I have hinted are worse than beast-like daily put in practice both by utterance of words and operation of acts in his Life and Conversation so that although his Creator hath provided him a Law a Way and a Leader by and in which he may come to be redeemed out of that sad and miserable state and condition of his blindness darkness and ignorance of soul and mind in which he is bound and chained by the power of Evil and Corruption which I call the Power of Darkness inasmuch as that spirit is the original and principal cause yet he giving more way unto the Power of Darkness than yeelding unto the other Power which is Light hath lost the true Way and erred from the true Guide and Conducter which is able to lead him into an unity with his glorious Creator who is the Power of Brightness and entered into the Adulteration and now lies wallowing like the Swine in the mire of filth and loathsomness of his own excrement yea rouling himself in the blood and pollution of his unwashed body tumbling upon the ground of noisomness and abominable stink as a helpless wretch without a shelter and without a shade naked and miserable without a garment or skirt of covering without the Bread of Hope or Water of Faith beaten of his Foe without hope of Redemption from his Oppression and bruised of his Enemy without belief of his Restoration unto his first innocent Freedom and thus stands bound unto death in the heavy chaine of captivity and alas poor miserable blind man though this is his lost condition yet he knows not nay nor perceives it not and so layes not his misery to heart which is his double fetters of Iron so though he hath a feigned hope and imagined faith in himself yet being in the Adulteration from the Life of his Creator as his life is sinful so his faith and hope in that corrupt nature is utterly deceivable which can never unite his soul again to his Creator but fraudulently perish it everlastingly in the darkness under which he is held through sin and corruption And though thus hath been the state of man almost from the Creation in the beginning nevertheless it hath pleased the Eternal Wisdom now in these latter dayes as it was prophesied of to the Jews to open a path wherein man may return again unto Himself in that pure and perfect shape and likeness in which he was created by his Glorious Power In order to which Return through the living Way and leading by the true Leader I hold it in estimation of the Eternal Wisdom and Counsel first to shew all the Indians That Man in the beginning was created holy and pure and not in sin and corruption which in this manner they may all plainly understand viz. That whereas the Eternal Power and glorious Sun of the Soul is in Himself pure and incorruptible in Life and Nature could not therefore create a thing corrupted simply so that is to say made in Corruption in his hand without becoming corrupt himself thereby which is impossible that ever that should be Because as his Essence is Eternal from all Eternity so his Nature is immutably and unchangeably pure And again Because He being the Eternal Wisdom who made the Sun in the Firmament of the Heavens a glorious brightness and the Moon and Stars glorious Lights in their places which are visible Creatures to the corruptible eye of Man it would not stand with his Wisdom as unto the retaining of his Glory in Himself to beget an invisible soul in an unclean filthy and polluted state which was the greatest of all Glories which were ever created Wherefore I say for these three Causes of his Purity Immutability and Wisdom ye may perceive that Man was created a pure Soul in the beginning by His pure Power in His pure Glory through His pure Wisdom of which the Jews have the Record written from the