Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	darkness_n	light_n	shine_v	1,422	5	9.5903	5	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

beginning in the Hebrew Tongue shewing at large Man's Creation in Innocency the Law that was given him in that state and likewise how he erred from the Law and thereby became a subject of the Power of Darkness droven from the Eternal Glory into the Curse whereby the whole Creation became a Curse unto him which at first also were blessed of the Pure Eternal Brightness unto Him for saith the Record When He had made all things speaking of the Eternal Power He saw that they were good and blessed them whence you may all understand as Man remains in the state of Corruption all the Creation which he accounts his Good Blessing and Happiness are assuredly unto him as his Curse his Evil and Bond of his Wo and Misery In knowledge of which you may all come to savour and relish the blessedness of my Salvation of you all now forwarding you in all willingness of the Spirit of Truth to the Way and the Conducter which is able to guide and lead you all in the same true Way out of Sin and save and redeem you from Corruption which was the cause of the Curse into the Holiness Purity and Incorruption that all your Kings Princes Rulers People Cattle and all created things may become every-where blessed they unto you and you unto them that the Glory may be with and in all as it was in the beginning even henceforth and for ever and for evermore Amen Answ In which Illustration of the way of Redemption from Sin and Curse that it brought I discover the first step of Order and Principle to the True Worship which is to bow down To bow down in Heart Mind and Soul to that Light of the glorious eternal Sun which is given into your Souls for a Law a Guide and a Leader Turn all your minds unto the Light in your Consciences which discovereth in all your secret thoughts the things that are evil sinful and beastly and not of the nature of the Holy and Glorious One and when-ever you find in your secret thoughts the power of Corruption and Darkness tempting to draw you resignedly and resolvedly into verbal or actual Sin and Transgression which is contrary to the Law and way of the holy and incorruptible measure of the Light of your Immortal Souls Take ye that Light for the guide of your minds and in so doing you will come to feel a War of the two Powers in you that as the Power of Corruption and Darkness which is of the flesh fleshly doth tempt you shewing you the Delights Profits and Pleasures of that Evil unto which it tempteth you the Power of the Light which is of the Spirit spiritually will stand up against it representing unto you the Evil of the thing the Cursedness of the thing and the end of the Evil which causeth a Separation from the true Life of Glory and Salvation So here standing in the Power of the true Guide it winneth the Soul and begetteth it into a greater Love and Affection with the Incorruptible Life and Glory than with the Abomination and Evil which causeth Everlasting Darkness Ignorance and Seperation from the Glory which endureth to all Eternity Thus Man enclining himself drawing his mind more and more from out of all that which cursed is into the Light and Power of Salvation within him comes to be delivered from all Evil For to this every mans Conscience shall affirmatively answer me That in the Light of the Soul that cometh from the Glorious Eternal Sun never was any Sin or Evil committed but out of it and contrary to it every act of Transgression hath been done and wrought by all men wherefore if all men take that for the true Way which is not of the nature of Darkness and the same for the true Guide and Conducter which is not of the nature of Sin but in its nature contrary to all Sin giving up their Souls alwayes to be led in it and guided by it this must needs lead all from and out of all things which are sinful and corruptible into its proper Life and Nature by its vertuous Power operating in the inward parts for except it could save and deliver from all Sin then it could not appear to be a Vertue of the Eternal Creator or else that the Power of Darkness hath gotten such a Supremacy that it 's become greater than the Power of Light that created all things which can never be that it should so come to passe because the Power of Light is Eternal even from Eternity to Eternity but the Power of Darkness came in in time and therefore of necessity must also have an end in time and so appears to be infinitly the lesser power and seeing its end must come I hereby direct all Souls unto the Way and Power by which it is to be brought to an end to know the End thereof within themselves even in every mans particular Soul And the Power that is to end it must be a Power that is in nature opposit unto it else it must alwayes be strengthened and never come to be ended Now the Power that is opposit in Nature Vertue and Operation unto Darkness is the Light which as aforesaid convinceth in the inward parts of all Evil yet a little to illustrate its deliverance of the Soul from all Evil in this lowly and uncovered manner I shew That the Light in the Conscience convinceth of the crime of cursing words the which being loved owned and delighted in the Convincement delivers from the Evil that it convinceth of through begetting a shamefulness and hatred in the Soul against the Crime and a pure love unto the vertue of the Thing that is found in nature quality and property in opposition to the Crime from which the Soul is delivered and here in the sence of this Deliverance in measure from Sin ariseth a little hope of Redemption which placeth a grain or seed of Trust and Confidence in the ground of this Deliverance from one Sin which though the Faith in that state be but like a grain of Mustard Seed yet mark the end of that Faith for in a pure Belief through the experience that the Soul hath found in the Light strengtheneth it self in an holy Love and Enclination to follow the pure Motions of it in all things in which Faith working by Love it comes to find the perfect Effect that as the Light was obeyed in the least appearance which accordingly delivered from the least Sin the same being obeyed loved and followed in every appearance whereas it is pure perfect powerful and of the nature of the Immutable Creature cannot alter from its Nature Property and Vertue of saving and delivering from all Sin So then this is the End of that grain of Faith which is sown in the Light it removes from the Oppressed Soul the Rocks and Mountains of Sin and Corruption under which it is pressed down and breaks the Chains of Transgression wherein it is bound in captivity and

Element for if a burning Coal of Fire be cast into Water it becomes quenched by the Water or if a Drop of Water be cast into a great Flame of Fire it consumes to nought in a moment therefore it is not the visible Sun that gives the Fishes their being in the Seas nor yet Man his life upon the Earth but the visible Sun as aforesaid together with the Fishes and all other Creatures was made a servant unto Man unto whom all things unto this day are so continued that he having the service of all things visible yea of the Glory of the Winds which is an invisible Creature attending him with sustentation according to the Providence of the Glorious Eternal Wisdom should with his whole soul seek and feel after his Creator to attain unto the true knowledge of Him therein to worship Him with all Thanksgiving Glory Honour Obedience and Praise who as he made every thing to serve his Body into which his Glorious Wisdom infused a perfect and upright Soul which was the greatest of all Glories that in the beginning were created in how much it had a true resemblance in invisible manner of the Invisible Power and Glory that created it of which none other creature had the like could not expect lesse from Man than that he should worship and serve his Eternal Goodness with every Faculty of that Soul which He put into him But yet I draw nearer to the most certain and true Witness in every Conscience of Mankind to remonstrate a little the Glory of the most Glorious Sun of the Soul shewing how it is a Glory in the most Glorious Part where the external and visible Sun reacheth not to enlighten nor shine about That so in a little measure discerning the Excellency of the One in Glory exceeding the Other you may come to know aright the True Living Eternal Wise and Supream Power which ruleth and reigneth over all things In proceed whereof it is to be apprehended That the Soul and Mind of Man is the most noble part of Man in as much as every Member of the Body is acted as a continual Servant in Obedience to the Motions of the Soul and Mind of Man and also because the Soul is the Immortal Part being not formed of a dead substance as the Body was of the Earth which returneth to Earth but of an inspiring Breath of Life that for ever abides in a quick and feeling state the which Soul being taken out of the Body leaves it as aforesaid to a Conversion unto its first Mould Wherefore seeing the visible Sun only enlightens the Eye of flesh which is the servile part and reacheth no further to shine about a Man than without a Man from which a Garment Shelter or House is able to shade Cannot be the Supream Power and Glory But the Eternal Sun of the Soul shines into the Soul and enlightens the Inward Parts and searcheth the Heart and tryeth every secret Thought and is secret unto all things as having perfect knowledge of all things from which nothing can be hid For let a Man ascend to the Skyes it will reach him and search his dark heart there or if he go down into the Deeps it will follow him and be with him there and when the visible Sun is set and gone down under the Horizon even at Midnight the Light of the Soul can rip up every word and work in the inward secret thoughts of Sin and Evil done and committed by a Man and call the Soul to witness with it which brings a Judgement and Condemnation in the Conscience that smites a Man with Fear and Trembling within himself which the visible Sun in the Firmament cannot do for a Man may commit Beastliness and Murder whilst the visible Sun shines on him which he cannot do in Countenance nay nor without Condemnation of the Light of the Sun of the Soul and therefore the visible Sun must needs appear to be infinitly short of the Glory of the Invisible Light that created all things Again If the visible Sun had created the invisible Soul of Man then must it also search and save it and so be the greater Power and of a Nature doing all things which all may know that it is not so for in its proper nature as a single Creature it doth but serve in the things afore-mentioned not blowing any Wind nor raining any Water nor can it so much as drive back one Cloud of all that the VVind bloweth over it and so shaketh not the Trees nor troubleth the Seas which the storms of Wind do all which are created ruled and governed by the Eternal Power and Sun of the Soul of whom I speak but as a Child and Suckling He being in his Power Wisdom and Glory Infinite and Incomprehensible Yet in His Light I shew that although the Soul of Man is so inferiour to Him that the Souls of all Men in the Earth are comprehended of Him as a drop of Water in the Sea and as a Sand in the bottom thereof which every Man may feel within himself in his own particular Soul yet the low and poor Soul of Man reacheth to the heighth yea and far above the height of the prefixed Course and Circle of the visible Sun 's appointed daily Race So then the visible Sun as I have said reaching not within a man to search his Soul nay nor as it 's placed in the Firmament neither by Ray nor light of Ray thereof can enter so much as into divers Artificial places Caves or holes of Darkness made in the Earth through the Invention of the Soul of Man where the more servile part to wit the fleshly body of Man can enter being therefore in its glory so far yea and far more than I stand to mention below the poor Soul that it is infused by a Power into the body of Man Surely infinitly much more must it needs appear to be below the Glory of the Eternal Sun of the Soul and Power of the Creation by which the Soul was first made in His own likeness of Holiness and Innocency and comes again to be renewed into the same Image and Similitude to live in the invisible Glory of his most Glorious Life in the perfect Inheritance Fruition and Possession of his unspeakable Joyes and Pleasures for ever and evermore Now to the Purpose of the Universal and Everlasting Unity I am opened to speak of Three Properties of the Eternal Brightness That as all Men come to the Renovation into the first Similitude of Innocency and Union with their Maker in that Glory as the way is plainly and easily held forth unto all wherein they may so come to unite in their Maker as one sanctified Body for ever may see and sit down in the Joy of their happy Benefit therein 1. One Property of the Nature of the Holy One is Peace perfect Peace without ever having disquiet in himself All Souls therefore uniting to the principle of his Brightness in