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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	believe_v	holy_a	scripture_n	6,955	5	5.9774	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49873	The wonders of God's creation manifested, in the variety of eight vvorlds as they were made known experimentally to the author J. Lead.	Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.	1695 (1695)	Wing L792; ESTC R216656	27,087	97

as from the outward Mortal Eye that doth speculate the Objects and Things of this World conspiring with the outward Ear which heareth and receiveth them so Thoughts do arise and multiply according to Temporal Matters and Concerns of that kind so likewise as these Spirits do proceed immediately from the Fountain Source of all Spirits they seeing and beholding their Original Being can do no other but contemplate and delight themselves in what the Eye of God doth see in them and his Ear doth hear in them having no Organical Speech but such only as is by pure Thought whence they do generate according to what they see and hear in that Globe of Eternity which filleth them with exulting Joy Now be it known that when by the Holy Ghost the time shall be expired for their descending into Corporeal Beings here or elsewhere in upper Mansions their Eye shall become our Eye their Ear ours so that we seeing and hearing in them to whom do stand open all Invisible Kingdoms and Worlds with the great Varieties of Glories in these shall have Thoughts of a right kind to spring in our Minds according to and agreeable with the Objects presented in as much as it quite turneth the Stream making that which was formerly Downward and Earthy now to become Upward and Heavenly O Blessed Time and Day when this Still Eternity shall thus open and be made manifest in Corporeities The which is given me to know will surely be And it hath been revealed that when these Spirits shall descend into Nature a Transfiguration so continually impressing will be upon the Mind for an incessant Generating of high and holy Cogitations that are no less than the very Nature and Quality of these simplified Spirits themselves as we being admitted hereby to look always into the Orb of Light and Love and to fix there steddily the Eye of the Mind Glorification may be brought down upon the Visible Elementary Body while remaining here at certain Seasons and Times of a more intimate Union and Commixture with these Powers of the manner aforesaid that so as occasion may be Mortality may be hid or swallowed up in Immortality to make good that saying We shall not all Die but be Changed from Glory to Glory by the bright influencing namely of these Spirits through the Father of Spirits § 22. Q But it may be here Queried Is not the Holy Ghost assigned for this great Change and Work of Renovation And where do we read in Scripture of such a Globe or World having such Spirits to inhabit in it Ans. It is true the Holy Ghost is sufficient as being so deputed and promised by the Lord CHRIST for the perfecting of the Regeneration or New Creation But what if it be the all-wise designation and pleasure of God and his Eternal Wisdom to separate such pure Spirits from his own Fountain-source thereby to effect the counsel of his Will relating to his Lapsed Creation and to put a new face of Glory upon what is so deformed and vile through the variety of his operating Spirits and Powers immediately proceeding from himself They are hence most meet to open the Depths that lye deeper than Nature and Creature being brought forth before any Elements were in existence for procreation of the Inhabitants of the several Worlds all of which are to give place to that Superstructure and Building which will be GOD himself quite throughout his whole Creation For although Seven Thousand Years may be expired in the Miseries and Temptations of an Elementary Life in this Outward and other Invisible Regions yet what are these to a God who is an Eternal Circle which can never end In the which Circle of a boundless Eternity the Infinite and All-powerful God hath much more to do in all Worlds than what hath been declared in Scripture or yet by any other ways made known finding all Prophesies and Revelations in Scripture Records do extend no further than to the Limits of the Seventh Thousand Years Sabbath What betwixt this Age and that great Jubilee will be successively produced both in this our Visible and in those Invisible Worlds that I have mentioned cannot now be particularized But in short there will be for certain most strange and wonderful Alterations throughout the whole Globe of Eternity for higher Admiration than is yet conspicuous For GOD is so full of an infinite Store that he must bring forth himself in a perpetual variety of Wonders Let none therefore presume to set bounds to the Wisdom and Power of the Immense Being to shut him up to this or that Measure or Degree Age or Time who always moveth in Eternal Liberty for the revealing and making known the Counsel of his Will and doth not pin up or confine the worthy Inquirers and Seekers of his Mind from fathoming the Treasures of his Wisdom Which are so manifold as they are still to be renewed in every Generation according as I my self have experienced in my Age of time as the Volumes of my Writings do give witness to proving that Revelation hath no cessation but that it is daily Renewed in Vessels or Instruments rightly qualified to receive it Otherwise I could never have known what is here written neither have been able to give any account of the several Worlds Regions or Centres had they not been shewn to me Therefore this is much preffed upon me not knowing but that it may be the last Testimony that I have to leave behind me in this nature to declare unto such as would know the Mind and Secrets of GOD That a special Charge is given from the High Court of Eternity that you do not stint your selves up to any foregoing Dispensation or Revelation no not to the Scripture Record it self which though truly Weighty and worthy to be received believed in and comformed unto yet is not to be taken up in and rested upon as if there were nothing more to be revealed for the Benefit and Instruction of Mankind Since the same Spirit that did Heretofore inspire the Holy Men of God to record them is Now in this last Day more abundantly shed forth to multiply Volumes of Scripture For whatsoever is purely dictated by the Holy Ghost may be called by that Name and so it was before Christ's appearing in Flesh by the Patriarchs and Prophets which was then succeeded by a Newer Ministration the former being fulfilled in Him This He promised should excel all that went before for a more plentiful sowing of the sacred Unction in the holy Ground of pure Hearts The Sower hereof is according to his Promises gone forth but where Stony Thorny and Unbelieving Ground is it cannot enter so as to take root which hath hitherto for a long time caused a great Scarcity and Famine of the Spirit with all its fruitfulness But now the Day of the Spirit is arising and its bright Sun will no more set but multiply to its Seven-fold Light § 22. 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