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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	jesus_n	light_n	shine_v	5,880	5	9.7269	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66687	The new law of righteousnes budding forth, in restoring the whole creation from the bondage of the curse. Or A glimpse of the new heaven, and new earth, wherein dwels righteousnes. Giving an alarm to silence all that preach or speak from hear-say, or imagination. By Gerrard Winstanley	Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.	1649 (1649)	Wing W3049; ESTC R219016	82,328	133

rise up to kill and destroy light but in the end the flesh destroyes it self Let the power of humility and Righteousnesse appear to a proud unrighteous covetous man and shew him his evil as in these dayes it doth he swels presently and rises up to make war to maintain himself to be an Angel of light and pride being dispersed into divers bodies cannot yield one to another to preserve one another but rise up to destroy each other in the light of the Sun The Sun shines and the dunghill casts up his stinking smell The Lord he shines and proud flesh kils one another flesh kils but it self And truly I must tell you That all these wars and killing one another are but the rising up of the curse destroying Armies of men are but the curse the burden which the Creation groans under For in the beginning all was very good and the Creation at first was made to preserve it self and this rising up to destroy the Creation is the curse And the Spirit of the Father that dwels in any humane body that is killed doth run into the Ocean of life and purifies the Creation from the curse But did not God send the Chaldeans and Sabeans to punish Job Yes the god Devil did but not the God or Righteousnesse For the Devil desired a libertie to try Iob and the righteous power Reason gave him leave onely told him he should not touch his life and then the Devil sends these enemies and burns his house and kils his children give but libertie to the curse and he doth much mischief Who was it that the god Devil did afflict Not an enemy to the King of Righteousnesse but a body in whom he dwelt Yea the Father did but suffer himself to be persecuted by the Devil in that humane body Iob That at last that power of darknesse which is the Accuser of the Brethren and the bondage of the Creation might be made manifest in the light of the Sun and so be cast out justly Now the end of all is this that unrighteous flesh that thinks himself an Angel of light and the onely power may be proved to be a Devil and so be cast out of the Creation and perish That Jacob the King of Righteousnesse the blessing of peace might arise up and reign for ever in the Creation when all enemies are subdued under his feet There is a time appointed of the righteous Judge that all flesh shall see it self in its own colours and when the flesh doth see it self in his own beastly shapes he will appear so deformed so piteous a confused Chaos of miserie and shame that the sight thereof shall be a great torment to himself Therefore take notice of this you proud envious covetous bitter-spirited and unrighteous men and women this self-satisfying glory in which you live and seem to have rest shall become your hell-torment when you are made to see your unrighteous treacherous self as you must when the Judge sits upon the Throne You that are now ashamed to own the righteous spirit and fear to offend men lest they should either reproch you or injure you And so will do any thing tho●gh unrighteous to preserve the good words of devilish men you shall then see you are not men not Saints but Devils and cursed enemies even the Serpents power that must be burned CHAP. XII ALl these declare the half hours silence that is to be in Heaven for all mouths are to be stopped by the power of Reasons Law shining within the heart And this abundance of talk that is amongst people by Arguments by disputes by declaring expositions upon others word and writing by long discourse called preaching shall all cease Some shal not be able to speak they shal be struck silent wit shame by seeing themselves in a losse and in confusion Neither shal they dare to speak til they know by experience within themselves what to speak but wait with a quiet silence upon the Lord til he break forth within their hearts and give them words and power to speak And this shal be a mark of a covetous proud and close Hypocrite to be ful of words preaching by arguments and expositions putting a meaning upon other mens words and writings telling stories by hear-say of what they have read and heard from men as the fashion is now in publique work For none shal dare to speak unlesse it be those that are sealed to destruction but what they understand in pure experience every one speaking his own words not another mans as the Preachers do to make a trade of it for he that speaks from tradition and imagination and makes a trade of his preaching to others to get a living by is a child of the curse and covetousnesse is his Lord Men must leave off teaching one another and the eies of all shal look upwards to the Father to be taught of him And at this time silence shal be a mans rest and libertie it is the gathering time the souls receiving time it is the forerunner of pure language None shal be offended at this but the covetous and proud Serpent and he wil vex and fret if the people wil not heare him preach and think he hath much wrong done him if he be slighted Wel Judas thou must be slighted thy preaching stinks before the Father and he wil draw his people out of thy confusion and leave thee naked and bare and thy shame shall be made manifest to the whole Creation for indeed thou art the curse While a man is buying his head in studying what hath been done in Moses time in the Prophets time in the Apostles and in the Son of mans time called Jesus the Anointed and doth not wait to find light and power of righteousnesse to arise up within his heart This man is a pireous barren creature though he have all the learning of Arts and Sciences under the Sun for the knowledge of Arts is but to speak methodically of what hath been and conjecture what shal be both which are uncertain to the Speaker But he that speaks from the original light within can truly say I know what I say and I know whom I worship This silence shal be both particular in every son and daughter and general in the practice of all before their eies and lo●king upwards and waiting for teaching from the great and only Teacher Christ the great Prophet for truly the time is come that all flesh shal be made silent and leave off multiplying of words without knowledge before the Lord both in p●eaching and praying And your Preachers shal be all the objects of the Creation through wich the Father wil convey himself into you and manifest himself before you these shal be your outward Preachers And the same word of power speaking in and to your hearts causing your hearts to open to his voyce shall be your Teacher within And that mouth that stands up to teach others and doth not

man Therefore be patient look up for teaching in this dividing of time when the Law of Righteousnesse arises up and makes himself more manifest he will reconcile all make every one to be of one heart and one minde and no other power must be the restorer but this King of Righteousnesse and Peace for this is he that makes men doe as they would be done unto And then envie and bitternes dies Now search the Scriptnres you that stand up to be Teachers that say I deny the Scriptures and let them judge me whether I deny them or no but one thing you shall finde to your shame that those Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles which you seeme to preserve with such love and zealous tendernesse shall cast the first stone at you to stone you out of your Pulpits for you doe not professe those Scriptures in love to them but in zealous covetousnesse to uphold your trade For now when Christ begins to arise up in sons and daughters whereby the Scriptures are honoured and proved true Prophecies Promises Visions and Revelations you deny their testimony and cry out Visions and Revelations are ceased and so you will ever have people to be hearing you speak the declaration because you live by it but if any receive the power from on high you cry out upon it It is self-conceit errour and blasphemy Well he is at worke that will discover your shame Wickednes shall slay the wicked though no mans hand be upon him CHAP. II. THere are three more discoveries of Christ to make the mystery of the Spirit shine in its excellency As Frst The great world wherein are variety of creatures as Sunne Moon Stars Earth Grasse Plants Cattle Fish Fowl and Man the Lord over the lower Creatures all sweetly conjoyned to preserve each other is no other but Christ spread forth in the Creation and so upholding the Creation by hi● own wisdome and power for he is the maker the preserver and restoring Spirit Therefore his name is called I and I am The Lord and besides me there is no Saviour But this is Christ very remote for though he rule in the whole Creation yet no single creature could discern o● spie him out he is in every one and yet that single one knew him not And therefore this one Almighty power began to make forth himself in visible descriptions before the creature● causing every creature to hold forth the light and power that is in them that so the mighty Creatour may at length be known in the clear sighted experience of one single creature man by seeing hearing tasting smelling feeling This one power of Righteousnesse as he rests in the Creation that man may be the mouth that shall make a clear discovery of Christ to others from the testimony that is in himself for hee is to see Christ within himself before hee can see him in other creatures And therefore Secondly The Sripture in their severall declaration types prophecies visions voyces revelations actings of men in patient doing and suffering in righteousnesse is no other but Christ in the letter lying under the experimentall words of those Pen-men setting forth the one Almighty in his severall actings and his severall conditions wherein he hath appeared to the view of the whole Creation but seen and known only by the one creature man in whom hee is purposed to dwell bodily But still here is a large distance between Christ and the bulk of man kinde for though some few particular ones have seen him and could declare him yet others are ignorant of him So that the universalitie of man-kinde may see these two discriptions of Christ that is in the Creation and in the Scriptures both without themselves And when any attains to see Christ in these outward discoveries it is full of sweet delight but this settles no true peace for that delight that is fetching in from things at a distance from us may be lost againe and return into its proper seat againe As the pleasant beames is of the Sun which refreshes the outward man may be lost for when the Clouds come between the beames returne into the Sun again which is their proper seat and men loseth the refreshing warmth and hear And therefore Thirdly Christ or the spreading power of light is drawing the knowledge of himself as he lies in all things into the clear experience of man into whole man yea into every brench of man-kinde and he the Sonne of Righteousnesse will not only shine into but fix hinself in every one So that perfect man shall be no other but God manifest in flesh for every manifestation of this power in any creature shall be seen known rejoyced in and be declared of by man The light and heat and Spirit of the Sunne shall be declared by the Sonne of Righteousnesse in man The sweet compliance of love in one creature towards another as the clouds to wa●er the earth the earth to send forth the fruits to preserve the living creatures that feeds thereupon shall be declared by that living power Love and Righteousnesse that is seated in man towards any creature So that though this one Almighty power be spread in the whole Creation yet it will appear to have his chief residence in man that in by and through man that one spirit may rule and govern the works of his own hands in Righteousnesse Every declaration of Christ in the Scriptures shal be seen and known in the clear experience of every sonne and daughter when this mystery is finished for Christ who indeed is the anointing shall fill all and all shall be the fulnesse of the anointing So that whatsoever a condition a man is in it is one or other condition that the childe Jesus was in growing upwards towards man-hood there is child hood youth and old●age in the anointing For the wisdome and power of truth that was poured upon the head of the Son of man grows upwards towards perfection in sons and daughters Even as wee see any tree corn or cattell grows up in the eye of man by degrees for as these creatures doe not attaine to perfectson on a sudden neither doth the spirit of Righteousnesse rise up on a sudden perfection but by degrees And therefore He that beleeves makes not hast The hastie flesh would have all content on a sudden but the spirit is moderate and rises up patiently its powerfull and quick and yet slow its slow but yet sure it will sit down in peace in a man though it run thorow many thorns and briars first Yea I say whatsoever condition you are in Christ or the anointing being in you appears in that condition in you If you be in a condition of poverty so was Christ the Son of man he had not whereon to lay his head If you be hated for Rigteousnesse sake so was he nay it is the anointing in you that is hated If angry proud