Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	law_n	sin_n	transgression_n	2,525	5	10.8527	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

consequently not to judge any man in any other way and manner or by any other Precept or Law than in and by that Law which judgeth and saveth themselves in the Inward Parts which still draws to the Similitude and preserves the Soul in the likeness of the Eternal Power and Wisdom that created it So then in case of Rebellious Subjects in a Land that would live in a lawless life of destruction of the King of Glorie's Creation wilfully and presumptuously in Lewdness Beastliness Violations or what other wickedness so ever Kings Pinces Rulers and Judges shall have no need to turn out their Minds from the Law within to search Books or Records of their Lands or Peoples without them to find a Law to judge such Transgressors by for that alienates and adulterates from the pure Similitude seeing the Creator cannot go out of Himself into Books without Him for a Law but keeping to the Inward Law of the Creator that preserves in the Glorious likeness and judging all in it and according to it answereth the same in all and leaves them without Excuse in the sight of the Eternal Searchers of all hearts in which Judgment they hold the Vnity with their Creator and stand justified before Him and by that of Him in all Consciences which answereth the Judgement of it Seeing therefore it is evident that the eternal Judge is but one and his Law but one the Judgement that is of Him in it is the Blessed State but that which is contrary to it is the Cursed State Moreover it may be plainly understood That he who made all Men in his own Eternal Wisdom certainly was and is the Wisest to make a Law for all Men that he created which in His Wisdom is evident He accordingly did decree and hath placed it in the Inwards near unto the most noble part of Man which ruleth all his Members to wit the Soul wherein all Transgression comes first to be conceived before any is ever brought to the birth So then he that altereth from his Law and maketh another Law to judge Men by contrary to that Law which his Creator hath placed near unto the most noble part of all Mankind and even in his own Conscience as well as in the Conscience of an another Creature that very Ruler stands in the Presumption adulterated and separated from his Creator shewing himself as if he had a Wisdom above his Creator to make a Law to judge his creatures by which is a most horrid Rebellion against his Creator and his holy and just Law Awake awake therefore O all ye Kings Princes Rulers and Judges upon the face of the whole Earth and answer your Creator in this true point of Judgement Now if the poor men should make forth their Convincement of the Truth saying We are perswaded of the Glory of the Truth of the Sun of the Soul for we experience it in the inward parts and can set our Seal to the Testimony thereof to be altogether Holy and Pure within us in which sence of the Love of our Creator towards us we are truly willing and desirous to live and walk so as that our Souls may be made worthy of such a glorious Infusion and Inspiration of the Eternal Love and Mercy Quest But what shall we do seeing the Rulers of our Land stand in opposition and we cannot so walk without an absolute peril of severe Imprisonment sharp Tortures loss of earthly Estate or Life it self Answ He that created you is the Eternal Power and Almighty King of Kings who reigneth over all in the Kingdoms of Men and giveth them to whomsoever he pleaseth Stand ye therefore in the Life of his Pleasure which is in that whereunto you are inwardly directed which begetteth and formeth you in the pure and perfect similitude of your Creator and there you will come to see Him to be the everlasting Patience and Eternal Content which is a greater Felicity and Glory for you to know in your selves as being moulded into the same Resemblance and so united to Him in the Power and Life thereof than the enjoyment of outward Liberty possession of Ease in the Flesh Earthly Treasure or Life it self in the body yea a Heavenly Happiness it is infinitly surpassing all that ever can be thought of below the visible Sun the living sence and feeling of which in the Eternal Power makes the Imprisonment of the body a sweet freedom of the Soul the Tortures of the Body the joyful pleasures of the Soul the loss of Earthly Goods the purchase of an Heavenly Treasure and the Death of the Body of Flesh the Everlasting Glorious Life of the Soul Thus for every finite Loss is reaped an infinite Treasure of Gain So then as ye grow into this Life committing all things House Goods Silver Gold Wife and Children Liberty and Life into the good pleasure of the Everlasting Patience and Eternal Content you come to reign as Kings in the glorious Life of the KING of Kings over all Earthly Kings and they see it not nor know it not who persecute you being themselves in the act of Persecution adulterated and alienated from the Life of the Eternal Patience and Content and in enmity to his power of Love and Mercy which is the Cursed State of Darkness So you knowing your Advantage of Treasure and Prerogative of Dominion in the power of Patience and vertue of Content ye may well say in your selves As we live and abide in the fear of our Creator which preserves in the continual possession of his Immortal Rewards and Treasures of all Joys we need not fear Earthly Kings nor Princes nay nor loss of Lives nor any other Creature for here we perceive temporal losse can be no losse unto us but as an Earnest-peny offered and given by us for the price of an Eternal Gain And therefore we will run our Race in the fear of our Maker with joyfulness holding the similitude of his own Holyness that if we are persecuted we will love and pray for our Enemies even as our Creator loved us whilst we were his Enemies and we will bear with them as he bore with us and forgive them as he hath forgiven us Thus will we live and thus will we dye and the Name of our Maker be evermore sanctified hallowed honoured and praised by and in us to the end Amen And ye being entered into this everlasting blessed State you stand as I have said in his good pleasure who reigneth in in the Kingdoms of Men and giveth them to whomsoever he pleaseth and then whosoever turneth against you to persecute you turneth against the pleasure of his Creator And mark the battle the Pot fighteth against the Potter who will therefore break it to pieces in his sore displeasure the Dust fights against its Maker who therefore will blow it away even with the fierce Whirlwind of his utter displeasure and gain himself a Renowned Glory over every rebellious Creature for even now is He arisen in