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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79912	A single eye all light, no darkness; or light and darkness one: In which you have it purely discussed, 1. The original of darkness. 2. What darkness is. 3. Why it is called darkness. As also, what God is within, and what without; how he is said to be one, yet two; when two and not one, yet then one, and not two. Likewise a word from the Lord touching the onely resurrection of the body, in, from, and to the Lord. With a certain parcel of quaeries to be answered from Heaven or Hell, / This revealed in L.C. one of the Universality.	Claxton, Laurence, 1615-1667.	1650 (1650)	Wing C4584; Thomason E614_1; ESTC R206526	14,911	20

indure but enstranges it self from darknesse from whence whoredom has its first original Light is so pure that it will not lodge with two but treads the steps of the Apostle saying Let every man have his own wife when as darknesse is not ashamed to ly with his neighbours wife for in light I declare that whoredom is the fruits of darknesse therefore no companion for light who scornes the society of a whore indeed Light is like Susanna that had rather dy then be desiled with harlots Yea innocent Susanna uncorrupted Light must be accused arraigned and condemned for that her accusers are guilty of Yet fear not Susanna thou shalt be vindicated and thy accusers condemned So that this is my Majesties pleasure to declare again and again that what acts soever is done by thee according as thou esteemest it yea according as thou beleevest it so be it done unto thee that is to say if thou hast committed those acts in Scripture recorded for swearing drunkenness adultery and theft and so acting apprehendest them let me deal plainly with thee to thee it is Sin and for so sinning thy imagination will pursue thee arraign thee and condemne thee for a Swearer an adulterer and a theef When as on the contrary thou art perswaded that those titles in Scripture and thy apprehension recorded for swearing adultery and theft be no such acts with thee but only titles without thee neither dost thou apprehend them any other but pure acts without title then I declare according to thy esteemation so is the act to thee and for so doing thy imagination will not cannot condemne thee but say with the Apostle We know that an Idol is nothing what thou esteemest Idolatry to us is none So that whatsoever I act though it be that act you call swearing adultery and theft yet to me there is no such title but a pure act for there is nothing that I do that is unclean to me no more then it is unclean of it self And yet notwithstanding this my priviledge doth not in the least approbate thee yea thee that apprehendest the title to sweare whore or steal c. because to thee it is unclean therefore not lawfull for thee neither canst thou upon the bare report hereof say Well if it be but as man esteems it then I will esteem it so too Alas friend let me tell thee whatever thy tongue saith yet thy imagination in thee declares sad things against thee in that thou esteemest them acts of sin thy imagination will torment thee for this sin in that thou condemnest thy self thou art tormented in that condemnation with endless misery so that I say Happy is the man that condemns not himself in those things he alloweth of No matter what Scripture Saints or Churches say if that within thee do not condemn thee thou shalt not be condemned for saith the History Out of thine own mouth not anothers will I judge thee Therefore remember that if thou judge not thy self let thy life be what it will yea act what thou canst yet if thou judge not thy self thou shalt not be judged For I came not into the World to condemn but to save the World But if the reproach and slander of Saints and Churches do cause thee to question thy self then art thou ready to say within what they report without I am guilty of what they accuse me So that true is the saying O Adam thy destruction is of thy self But before I conclude touching how darkness is made light sin holiness and so all deformity converted into its own pure nature it was my pleasure to treat somthing concerning the nature of this loss that whether darkness in Scripture recorded and by the creature believed be cast out as distinct from light and so said to be damned in that it is not light not pure but defiled In answer to that the Lord declares that those filthy abominable works of darkness by thee so apprehended shall be destroyed and damned But how or where shall they be damned that is in the sayings of this Text I will make darkness light Oh that this were purely minded then thou wouldst see that sin must not be thrown out but cast within there being in the Vat it is dyed of the same colour of the liquor as Saffron converts milk into its own colour so doth the fountain of light convert sin hell and devil into its own nature and light as it self I will make rough waies smooth Now it is damm'd and ramm'd into its only Center there to dwell eternal in the bosom of its only Father This and only this is the damnation so much terrifying the Creature in its dark apprehension that it shall be robbed and carried it knows not whither cryeth out I am damned I am damned being carried out of its former knowledge now knoweth not where it is therefore lamenting Master Save me I perish perished in its own Apprehension yet saved in the essential Thus much concerning I will lead the blind by a way that they know not and in paths they have not known I will make darkness light crooked things streight c. A Word from the Lord touching Resurrection there being reports not a few that I should deny the Resurrection of that body consisting of Flesh Bloud and Bone 〈…〉 Reason would arraigne me for a mad man 〈◊〉 w●u●d declare me anti-Scripturist in favouring 〈…〉 of Darkness which if rightly understood 〈…〉 the Resurrection of this Body both which 〈…〉 body is made of that is the life perfection and happin●●● of 〈◊〉 body but thy body consisting of flesh and bone i● made 〈…〉 dust of the earth therefore when thy body is reduced ●o its c●●ter then and not till then is thy body alive perfected in its happiness now for thee to raise this body it would declare thee a Tyrant for as it is destructive for the Fowl to live in the water or the Fish in the Firmament so to raise thy body to a local place called Heaven would to thy body become a Hell for as the earth would become a Hell to the Spirit so that place called heaven would become a hell to the Body for after laid in the grave it is buried in its heaven glory and happiness where it shall rot and consume into its own nature for ever and ever Yet not denying but that body quoted in the History shall rise which body hath several denominations as earthly corruptible dishonorable weak vile and natural body all which doth but make one cleer prosp●ct in which you may take a full view of what that body is made of that shall rise whether a visible body consisting of flesh and bone or invisible body consisting of the Sensitive within this body To this end the History speaketh on this wise That we our selves groan within our selves waiting for the redemption to wit our Body So that in light I declare that the corrupt senses must put on incorruption thy mortal apprehension must

A SINGLE EYE All Light no Darkness or Light and Darkness One In which you have it purely Discussed 1. The Original of Darkness 2. What Darkness is 3. Why it is called Darkness As also What God is Within and what Without how he is said to be One yet Two when Two and not One yet then One and not Two Likewise A Word from the Lord touching the onely Resurrection of the Body In From and To the LORD With a certain parcel of Quaeries to be answered from Heaven or Hell This Revealed in L. C. one of the UNIVERSALITY Imprinted at LONDON in the Yeer that the POWERS of Heaven and Earth Was Is and Shall be Shaken yea Damned till they be no more for EVER BEhold the King of glory now is come T'reduce God and Devil to their Doom For both of them are servants unto Me That lives and rules in perfect Majesty Though called God yet that is not my Name True I be both yet am I not the same Therefore a wonder am I to you all So that to titul'd Gods ye pray and call Oh then my Creature let me speak to thee Thy Worship and thy God shall dy truly Why dote ye Worldlings up and down being hurl'd As he is so are we even in this World And so are all things perfect just and good Yea all are sav'd by 's Cross his wounds and blood Where else is heaven but in our present peace From him or hell but when that this doth cease Fie then for shame look not above the Skies For God or Heaven for here your Treasure lies Even in these Forms Eternal Will will reigne Through him are all things onely One not Twain Sure he 's the Fountain from which every thing Both good and ill so term'd appears to spring Vnto this Single Eye though Adams two Cannot perceive to Such to All Adieu HAving experience that his Majesty the Being and Operation of all things appeareth in and to the Creature under a two-fold Form or Visage by which that becometh real with the Creature which is but a shadow with this Infinite Being So that from hence it ariseth the Creature supposeth God to be that which is not and that not to be which is God Therefore hath his Majesty divulged his pleasure that thereby he may take occasion to unfold himself in and to the Creature under such a prospect that the Creature may know God as he is known of God that so from the clear appearance of God the Creature may behold purely what God is which as yet is manifest the Creation in this Nation inhabiteth in no other Region then the Woman of Samaria And therefore it is the cry of his Majesty is not fulfilled and obeyed but by Churches Saints and Devils opposed and contemned So that rare it is to find the Creature that is awaked out of his deep sleep that hath shaked off the covering so that he can from the clear Appearance of God say the vail is taken away and that he believeth the Truth as it is in his Majesty In answer to this I have travelled from one end of England to another and as yet could find very few that could define unto me the Object of their Worship or give me a Character what that God is so much professed by them yet notwithstanding I could come into no City Town nor Village but there I heard the name God under one Form or another worshipped that for God which I had experience was no God So that in the period of my Pilgrimage I concluded there was gods many and lords many although to me but one God Therefore at my return I was carried out by God to hold forth to the Creature the God yesterday to day and for ever To that end in the perusal of his Majesties pleasure you may take notice what is intended or rather in the ensuing Treatise recorded having for the present but only presented to you a Map in which you may take a full view what that God is thou pretends to Worship whether he be Infinite or Finite whether he be subject to passion and affection whether he behold the actions of the creature as the Creature esteem them and whether he can be changed by thy prayers so as to expiate a judgement or produce a deliverance yea whether he be all and in all or but all in part that is to say whether one act be good another evil one light another darkness and if so reason from Scripture declareth God is passionate God is affectionate and if either then changeable But by forms and spiritual God like forms he is professed and so worshipped as a God that beholds evil and good so passionate with the one and affectionate with the other so that in conclusion they imagine him as themselves not infinite but finite therefore it is one Act in God is conceived two in themselves to wit one Act Adultry another Honesty when if Reason were admitted and thereby Scripture interpreted then should they observe in that Act they call Honesty to be Adultry and that Act so called Adultry to have as much honesty as the other for with God they are but one and that one Act holy just and good as God This to me by Reason is confirmed and by Scripture declared That to the pure all things are pure So that for my part I know nothing unclean to me no more then it is of it self and therefore what Act soever I do is acted by that Majesty in me as in the ensuing Treatise will appear what Acts they are the nature of Acting them and in the period how I esteem them So that I weigh not how I am judged in that I judge not my self So to conclude the censures of Scripture Churches Saints and Devils are no more to me than the cuting off of a Dogs neck Vale. ISAIAH 42. 16. I will make Darkness Light hefore them THe God of gods hath cast me on this Subject to the end he may take occasion to unfold himself what he is in himself and how he maketh out himself in his Appearance to the creature To that end be pleased to peruse the precedent verses and you will find what occasioned these terms in this Text In brief you may behold the Original thereof arise from the present state of the Gentiles they being then as it were Prisoners and in the state of darkness So that in reference to their bondage Christ called the Son of God was promised to redeem them from the Region of Darkness that notwithstanding they had worshipped that for God which was no god yet now is the time come now is the day that God will plunder them of their Idols that God will enlighten their dark understandings as in my Text God will make darkness light before them Notwithstanding it may be supposed by some that the connexion hereof doth only concern the Gentiles yet let me tell thee I find that God is not so limitted in his pen