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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

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

against its full powerful and unlimited Propagation that through its free and unlimited Operation it may lead all unto the Blessed state of Everlasting Vnion with the Holy Unlimitted One where there is no more Transgression nor Curse Now if any particular King Prince or Ruler should further adde to his perswasion saying This is the Truth and the true and living Way in which only the Holy One can be known and worshipid aright and therefore I am henceforth resolved and resigned in my whole Soul to live walk and worship in the same But whereas I have a Kingdom Province or Territory under my Authority Quest What shall I do to these People to make them be all of this mind Answ Thou having found the true and living way blessed art thou having found it if thou walkest and abidest in it therein to be led from degree to degree day by day more and more into the likeness of Him who anew createth thy Soul within thee for herein thou shalt reap a plentiful harvest of his Wisdom in thy Inward parts which will give thee in the Day of Brightness to see that He draweth all into Himself with the Cords of the Power of Love in his Glorious Wisdom whose Counsel will accordingly instruct thee to retain the perfect similitude of his Glory and therefore shall draw all by the same love of Wisdom into the same Light and Virtue of Love and Wisdom and in none other Power shalt thou work with any man besides that by which thy Maker worketh in thee for else thou wilt degenerate and go utterly from the likeness of thy Creator as the wicked and rebellious Rulers of the Earth do to Envy Imprisoning Persecuting Killing Murdering and spilling of Blood all which stand in the adulteration and separation from and in the cursed enmity to the Life of thy Creator which is Peace Love and Mercy and thus instead of seeking to draw others to Him thou thy self wilt run like a Fugative and Vagabond from Him and bring guilt upon thy own head by shortning the dayes of such as thou dost imprison and persecute to whose Life thou art not able to adde a day and for killing that which thou canst not make alive again And there also the weighty price of Souls will be charged grievously upon thee for which thou canst never make satisfaction and if through thy Cruelty thou shouldst turn any to thy self it is but unto that life which is wholly cursed and therefore keep thee towards all men as thy Creator keeps towards thee loving all men as He loveth enemies and hath greatly loved thee and wait upon thy Creator praying to Him for all men like as a long while He waited upon thee for thus thou growest into His true Similitude and mark the end in His Time he who formed and renewed thy Soul in Himself will do the like to many more of thy Region and Dominion and then as the Soul of thy Maker was rejoyced in thy Return unto Himself so wilt thou have an exceeding Joy in their Return unto Him also for whom thy Soul travelleth and thirsteth in secret fervent desires And as in this Particular so in every Particular Case walk thee as one that is moulded into a new frame like unto the Holy One thy Maker and in so doing thy Fruits will be abundant to His Praise and He will take pleasure to enrich thy Soul with His Everlasting Vertue and Treasure of Wisdom and his Spirit of Power and Glory will rest upon thee Yet in respect of the Universal Publick Service of the Holy One Quest How may it be ordered in relation to Assemblies and Congregations Answ Whereas the Eternal Wisdom of all Power is but one infinit Spirit of Love all that draw into Unity with Him must certainly draw into an infinit Love and Vnity one with another in which state that the Unity may be held in the Joy of Eternal Love the Power of Wisdom sets in this Order first appointing convenient Places for Publick Assemblies and next determining convenient Times wherein the Congregations may be kept not by constraint or violence for as the Love of the Eternal Virtue and Power of Love is free in Himself towards every Soul so requireth He that all Souls should be like Him ready in heart and free in mind to assemble together and not in any other way or manner because neither the Constrainer nor the Constrained retains the perfect similitude of his Love and Freedom but are in the degenerated Will wherein every Sacrifice is abominable And when both Place and Time is appointed for Publick Congregations all that are united in the Eternal Vertue as one Soul and Mind and Members of one Spiritual Body must needs congregate and flow together to the end of nourishing and cherishing their own flesh for waiting together in the one Spirit of Holiness and Eternal Power the Power will arise in and among you and the Word of Life will go forth of the mouths of many on which the whole Body will feed and by it be cherished and nourished unto a Life af Immortal Purity Joy and Glory So that when all have found the experience of this sweetness in the Order of Assemblies as we have found will make them flow even as we fly in the Spirit of Unity unto the Holy Congregations distinated and appointed by the Spirit of Wisdom Again in respect of Government Seeing the Creator of all things is an Infinit Wisdom must absolutely therefore be the Author of Order and not of Confusion Quest By what Laws then shall all Nations be ruled and governed for the preserving all things in meet and pure Order Answ Order and Government is of the Life of Eternal Wisdom Therefore in relation to the Love which keeps in the true Order whereby the true Government comes to be known this may you all understand He that created all Things and Kings I call the KING of Kings and of Glory is the One Almighty Ruler over all his Creation and Workmanship and requireth that all should be subject to his Government whose Law is but one which as I have shewed is written in the inward parts which is the Light of the Sun of the Soul that was before Transgression was and leads into that state where Transgression is not This only is the true Law that is to rule in all inward parts to rule all Minds which rules all Members and the Minds being ruled by it all the Members become subject unto it whereby the whole World of Mankind comes to be drawn into the Likeness of the Life and Power that created them in which state Transgression is not so here the Law is a Saviour and not a Judge which Law thus teacheth to wit Do unto all men as ye would that men should do unto you And again it alwayes teacheth That all Kings Princes Rulers and Iudges should keep to the true similitude like unto their Creator in matter of Judgement by a Law and

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