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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95810	Unpremeditated thoughts of the knowledge of God, whom to know, is life eternal. With some discoveries of the mysteries of creation, in the six days work, and the seventh days rest. : To which is added, a short discourse concerning those two great principles of natural philosophy, matter and motion. / Humbly offered to consideration, by one of the Philadelphia Society, who calls her self Irena.	Institut de recherches européennes sur les noblesses et aristocraties.	1697 (1697)	Wing U92A; ESTC R185871	42,220	173

away In thy Light let me see Light Strengthen my Optick Faculty that I may look within the Vail and behold Thee Thou Sun of Suns the Brightness of the Fathers Glory I can see but little of Thee I can know but little of Thee I cannot Comprehend Thee do thou Comprehend me Surround me with thy Brightness Gather me up into thy Self that Inferiour Lights may be under my feet that I may no longer be governed by their Influences but may be under the immediate Conduct of thy Light World where they need not the Light of the Sun for thy Self is the Light thereof When shall it be said to thy Church Arise and shine for thy Light is come Even so come Lord JESUS come quickly And God said Let there be Lights in the Firmament of the Heaven to separate the Day from the Night and let them be for Signs and for Seasons c. and let them give Light on the Earth And God made two great Lights the greater Light to rule the Day the lesser Light to rule the Night He made also the Stars and God set them in the Firmament to shine upon the Earth and to rule the Night and the Day and separate the Light from the Darkness And God saw that it was good God by his Spirit made the Heavens and by his Spirit he garnished and embellished the Heavens The Firmament was before a beautiful Looking-Glass it was an admirable one indeed when the lovely Forms of Bodies of Light were to be seen in it God said Let there be Lights in the Firmament This was not only to Adorn but for many admirable Uses for Signs and for Seasons They sign and signify out much to the Inhabitants of this lower World they have a Voice to us if we could understand it there is no Tongue nor Language where their Voice is not heard but how few understand the Language They were to give Light on the Earth Light is one of the most comfortable Blessings we have it is one of the good Gifts that comes from the Father of Lights If it were ask'd Hath the Light a Father As Job was ask'd concerning the Rain We might answer It hath a Divine Original For the Firmament is a Mirror as it shews to us the Births and Representations of the upper Light World the Supercelestial Sun and Moon and Stars the seven Spirits of God the seven Golden Lamps shew themselves in their various Lights and put forth their Influences in the visible Heavens from thence they are conveyed down to our lower World and we have our Sun and Moon and Stars in the Earth we have our Sun Centralis as some Philosopher calls it I think Sandivogius Some other Enlightned Person saith There is Heaven above and Heaven beneath know this and be happy I mention this in this place because the Mineral Kingdom hath some share in this Fourth Days Work for when the Lights of the Firmament were made to shine forth being a Reflection from the most glorious Upper Light World they did not rest there so but that they put forth Themselves into a Birth into a Reflection or Mirror in this Lower World but here the Christal is so thick it is hard seeing through it the Fall hath so much mudded this Principle this Lower Earth Besides our Sun and Moon are but the Reflection of a Reflection the Shadow of a Shadow Therefore we must dig deep for this Wisdom as for hid Treasures and we shall see Wisdom hath builded her House so as to lay her seven Pillars deep in the very Foundation in the very Center of all things I was ready to wonder that the Mineral Kingdom was not described as well as the Creation of the Vegetable and Animal in this first Chapter of Genesis till my Eyes were opened to see it did belong to this Fourth Day 's Work And now I see more clearly the deep Significancy of Joseph's Blessing which hath contained in it the Sweetness of Heaven above and the Deep lying beneath the sweet Increase of the Sun and of the Moon Lord after this sight let me no more think any of thy Creatures mean or little let me be always thankful for the least of thy Favours Nothing can be little that comes from Thee thou Being of all Beings Thou hast nothing little to give All thy Works are wonderful in Wisdom hast thou made them all Thy Footsteps are glorious thy Footstool is richly adorned All thy Ways are Pleasantness all thy Paths are Peace I desire to be in Subjection to Thee thou Father of my Spirit that I may live that I may live to praise live to love and to adore thee for ever The lower Sun Moon and Stars that inhabit our Earth are for the use of Man especially a wise Man who knows their Original Nature and Use and when he intends to improve them for the health of his Body or benefit of his Estate he makes them to shine in his Firmament and they are to him for Signs and Seasons by which to govern his Work they are to enlighten his Earth to make it fruitful to bring forth their own bright Forms till his véry Earth is throughout enlightned and comes to be it self a bright shining Sun This Fourth Day 's Work is figured out in Man who is the Little World in the Frame of his outward Body as is said in the 12th of the Ecclesiastes Whilst the Sun is not dark nor the Light nor the Moon nor the Stars The Fall of Man Eclipsed the Lights and laid them liable to Darkness It entied into the very Soul and Spirit and darkned the Light there But when the Spirit of the Lord comes to work the New Birth the New Creation this Fourth Day 's Work comes to be known in the Soul O who can express the glorious Splendor if it When the Lord himself comes to be a Sun and a Shield When the Sun of Righteousness doth arise with Healing in his Wings The Dawning of this Day the Morning Redness the Sun Rising Who can express the unutterable Sweetness and Strength that is felt in the happy Soul that is thus shined upon But to have this Sun shine brighter and brighter to the perfect Day to increase into the Light of seven Days O may a poor low humble Soul that feels a little Refreshment from the Beams of this Sun lie prostrate till it feels that it is throughout penetrated and filled till it is cloathed with the Sun and hath the Moon under its Feet that it may go forth in the power of this Sun as a Giant refreshed with Wine and as a strong Man to run a Race O my Soul lie low prostrate thy self at the Feet of thy JESVS in silence wait his pleasure stir not up thy Beloved till he please He hath sometimes visited a Soul with such Favours as hath made it sing silent Waiting I do find A Treasure opens in my Mind Turn in my Soul turn in and see The fulness of

Number when we come to know in our own Souls the sweet Rest to rest from our Labours as God did from his when we die in the Lord and rest from our Labours and our Works do follow us He that can understand let him understand This 30th of July the sweet Teachings abide upon me and I must follow my Guide who now shews me something of the Six Days work in opening the First Chapter of Genesis to me thus In the beginning In principio in the beginning or first Manifestation of this Principle Elohim the Mighty God of Power Created made out of Nothing some say I know not what Nothing their Imaginations frame to them but I am sure when about Seventeen or Eighteen years of Age I look'd into their Expositions Annotations Commentaries all I could find no other account was given but made out of Nothing which left me not at all satisfied but the Lord is pleased to open to me one Scripture by another The things that are made are not made of things that do appear they are made of Nothing that does appear but of Something that doth not appear viz. of that which is invisible In the beginning God made created produced the Heavens and the Earth the substance of which both were formed but the Earth was then without Form and Darkness was upon the Face of the Deep Some represent this Chaos methinks but oddly calling it rude Chaos where all things lay they say confused I will not cavil about Words but this gives a strange Representation of this Principle out of which such a beautiful and orderly World was produced Now to me this very Chaos hath a Beauty in it I cannot but say O beautiful Darkness O holy Night The Mother of all things In this dark Chariot doth the Omnipotent Creator the Great Jehovah ride forth magnificently and when the Vail was drawn away the Light appear'd And God said Let there be Light and there was Light This Light was before hid in the Darkness till it it was manifested at the Command of God the Light was mingled with the Darkness in the Chaos and innumerable other seeming Contrarieties but not confused none of God's Creatures can be so for God is a God of Order not of Confusion his Works are performed with the swift motion agility powerful operation of a most glorious Spirit and also as a wise Architect with order weight and sure proportionates all things and made the lower Orders of things answer to their Patterns in the Heavenly A man doth not make any thing but what hath some sort of spiritual existence in his Mind before it can be produc'd into Out-working with his hands Infinitely transcendently more hath all things substantially really a being in the Eternal Idea's in the Divine Mind Man hath power over the Creatures to change and alter the Substance but he hath not power to make the substance not the least part of it but God produceth the substance form and all from himself The Light of this Creation is a Reflexion of the Supercelestial Light And God saw the Light that it was good and God divided the Light from the Darkness and God called the Light Day and the Darkness he called Night and the Evening and the Morning were the first Day When the Light was separated from the Darkness and brought forth into a distinct Existence this was the end of the First Day 's Work There is a Philosophical Work which is an Excellent Figure of this First Days Work When an enlightned Man a wise Man takes some part of the Creation of the Substance or Matter and causeth it to pass into Death and Putrifaction it comes to be like the Chaos of which it was once a part it goes into a state of Darkness and Blackness but the wise Man is not frighted at this sight but knows this doth necessarily precede the Light and that it doth include the Light and if he continues his Operation he knows he shall certainly see a bright white Light appear and there will be a separation between this Light and Darkness which is an end of his first Days Work This also is a Figure of the New Creation which God works in bringing Man to himself out of the fallen state which is done by bringing Man to a state of Dying he must be brought to a state of Contrition Crucifixion a spiritual Dying with Christ Dying to Sin Dying to Self now this is a state of Darkness and of the Shadow of Death indeed But the Spirit of God moves upon these dark Waters upon this Deep and causeth the Light to appear he illuminates the Man causeth the Light to shine out of Obsecurity for this Light is in the Darkness though the Darkness comprehendeth it not Now this Enlightning this separation of the Light from the Darkness is the First Day 's Work of the Spirit of God in the Minds of Men. Thus there is an Excellent Agreement and Harmony in all the Works and Ways of God Let none think it strange that I make use of Natural and Artificial things to explain Divine Our Lord Jesus made use not only of Natural Productions but of Artificial Employments as Metaphors he mentions the Sower of Seed the Vine-Dresser the Woman's hiding her Leaven in three Measures of Meal till all is leavened This last Parable hath an excellent Significancy in it of things Divine Natural and Philosophical or Artificial but it is now as it was then to some it is given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom to others it is not given But there are some now who think so high of themselves that it is below them to look into the Creatures notwithstanding the Great and Mighty Jehovah did condescend to make them and doth preserve them every moment and takes such care that the meanest of them falls not to the ground without the Will of our heavenly Father I am now to say something of the Second Day 's Work of Creation And God said Let there be a Firmament in the midst of the Waters and let it divide the Waters from the Waters and God made the Firmament and divided the Waters which were under the Firmament from the Waters which were above the Firmament and it was so and God called the Firmament Heaven And the Evening and the Morning were the Second Day After the Light was separated from the Darkness in the First Day 's Work the Second Day the Light was Rarified and Expanded it was extended or spread forth to a wonderful Circumference and so it became the Firmament which God called Heaven It is said The Lord stretched out the Heavens as a Curtain as a Tent to dwell in Thus as a wise Builder a curious Architect the Lord covers the top of the Structure before he finisheth the curious In works The Chaos was a Watry Substance an Unctuous Humidity the Principle of the Water was predominant therefore the Scripture here calls it Water saying The Spirit of God

when old things shall pass away and all things become new And one admirable part of this Work is the bringing forth the New Heaven in us the New Firmament wherein is Light Serenity Calmness the Fire being tempered with the meek Waters of Quietness so that the wrathful property of the Fire is changed into a sweet peaceful Light but this Light Centre cannot be opened in us but by our blessed JESUS who hath the Key of David who opens and no Man shuts and shuts and no Man opens O! 't is our blessed JESUS who opens his own Light in us by his Spirit he causeth his glorious Light to shine out of the Darkness and to arise and to enlarge it self till our whole Body is full of Light There is a certain sign given to know whether the whole Body is full of Light If thy Eye is single our dear Lord tells us our whole Body is full of Light The single Eye is when we fix our Eye upon the Light on the Good first in God himself and in all the Creatures where it is scattered up and down but all from the same Root Now God himself beholds the Evil and the Good but he dwells in the Light So tho' we may see the Evil we must shut our Eye to it and open it to the Good thus stedfastly beholding the Light we shall be transformed into its Likeness However every thing is beautiful in its Season The Evening as well as the Morning is the Second Day And God said again Let the Waters under the Heaven be gathered together into one place and let the dry Land appear and it was so Then God said Let the Earth bring forth the Bud of the Herb that seedeth Seed the fruitful Tree that beareth Fruit c. and it was so And God saw that it was good And the Evening and the Morning were the Third Day In this Third Day 's Work there was a gathering together of vast quantities of Waters that made the Seas those mighty Oceans where the Wonders of God are seen by those who go down into the Deep in Ships Surely the Waters were at first the greatest part of this Globe of the lower World They yet remain very great tho' more Ground hath been gain'd since the first Creation as is plain in many parts of the World There remains in the Sea such a quantity of the Oleous Light or fiery part of the Chaos as ripens them and sometimes gains advantage and a little dries them up and lessens their Quantity This Substance when it is agirated makes the Sea boil like a Pot it often appears like Fire And who know the Nature of Salt especially Sea-Salt will know that this is so and they will know the meaning of that word Every Sacrifice shall be seasoned with Fire and salted with Salt which are equivalent terms Now in the separation of the Elements when the Light was carried upwards and much Water with it and the Waters were gathered together in this Globe the dry Land appeared the Light and Waters being separated from it the Earth appear'd but a Caput Mortuum a Dead Earth till the Prolifick Virtue was call'd forth by the Word of God and then it appeared that Heaven had not left the Earth without first imprinting alovely Image upon it There was left in it so much Life and Heat as quickned it to bring forth innumerable Vegetable Substances of various Size Shape Colour Fruits and Herbs and Flowers with great Variety of Taste and Fragrancy of Smell all to shew forth the Bounty and Magnificence of our Great Creator How freely did the Teeming Earth in this Virgin-state of Purity bring forth the various beautiful Forms of Vegetable Substances before it was Clogg'd and Burthen'd with the Curse The Earth we tread on as Contemptible as we are apt to think of it notwithstanding the Disadvantage it hath by the Fall of Man which brought the Curse upon it there is that Lustre Beauty Excellency in it that if the same Spirit that made it please to open our Eyes to see we shall behold with wonder Sure such Wisdom is worth our seeking and praying for which we have great Enconragement to do when we read of the great Wisdom of Solomon who knew the Nature of all Vegetables from the Tall Cedar to the Low but Sweet Hyssop The residue of the Spirit is with the Lord but for these things he will be sought unto and they that seek shall find a measure of Wisdom if not so great But we must dig deep for it as for hid Treasures and be thankful for a little It is a great blessing to have the Scriptures and any degree of the Spirit of God to open them to us in shewing to us the Wonders of God in the Creatures particularly in the gathering together of the Waters and setting bounds to their proud Waves saying Hither to and no further in causing the dry Land to appear and at the Command of God to appear with an admirable Verdure a beautiful Cloathing which was the end of the Third Day 's Work And the Evening and the Morning were the Third Day The Philosopher's Third Day 's Work is a Separation of the Elements that his Dry Ground appears with a Vegetative Life in it which if he pleases will spring up in his Glass There is in his Ground Beautiful Colours Pleasant Scents and his Earth while in this state may not be Unprofitable or Unfruitful but may be made to bring forth Increase in not Unprofitable Fruits nor is his Verdure unpleasant to behold This is a short Account of the Philosopher's Third Day 's Work A better Hand may supply the shortness and imperfection of it The Third Day 's Work as it is wrought Internally in bringing forth the Fruits of the Spirit is excellently described in the Scripture There is the good Ground spoken of that brings forth Fruit abundantly some fifty some sixty and some an hundred fold It is a blessed thing to have the good Ground in us the Ground that stands out of Dying out of Repentance tho' it was once covered with the Waters it is not now laying again this Foundation of Repentance but they go on to bring forth other good Fruits that they may be rooted and grounded in Love that they may take Root downwards and bring forth Fruit upwards Fruits of Righteousness Fruits of Renown that they may be as Trees planted by the Rivers of Waters bringing forth Fruit in due season How short are many Christians of this Work How then shall we attain to the Seventh Day the Sabbath of Rest However the Work of this Day is very good And the Evening and the Morning is the Third Day Now the Fourth Day 's Admirable Brightness appears before me with such Splendor as is ready to dazle my weak sight wonderful Brightness hinders our sight as much almost as Darkness O glorious Sun of Righteousness arise in my Soul Enlighten my Darkness Let the Shadows flee