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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29304	Some addition to a former paper, entituled, A short declaration of the purpose and decree of the everlasting counsel of Gods heavenly host concerning His royal seed, to demonstrate the nobleness of its operation, and how God doth manifest it : and is an answer in short to a question as followeth : How God doth manifest this noble and honourable seed in man, in which is the glory of it magnified by its own workings, in all that believe, to their justification, salvation, and to the condemnation of them that resist? / by a lover ot it, and one who waits for its exaltation over all, and hath travelled and suffered for its sake, William Brend.	Brend, William, d. 1676.; Brend, William, d. 1676. Short declaration of the purpose and decree of the everlasting counsel of Gods heavenly host.	1663 (1663)	Wing B4361; ESTC R20114	15,513	22

pure calls and knocks of the Lord there and turn in your minds to it to know what it speaks and be it known unto such it speaks judgement and condemnation to the sinner and reproof and alway calls to turn from sin and from the vanities of the world which lies in wickedness and to turn to the Lord that so from him they may find mercy and plentious redemption and to feel after his Son who is Life and the quickening spirit without which no man can know redemption from sin nor reconciliation with God and so not peace with him Nor none can worship the Lord in truth but as they witness a measure of the Resurrection of the Just and the Just is not witnessed but by that Power that kills the sin and slays the transgression and then that is known which passeth thorow the death and darknes and overcomes him which hath the power of death that is the Devil which is the Life of Jesus Christ the Son and Word of God which Life of Jesus doth arise in the destroying of the death and overcoming of him who is the Power and King of death then Life is known to rule in man by the power of him that raised Jesus from the grave and this quickens the mortal body and then Life rules and it treads down sin and Satan's power under the royal feet of his divine Power and Authority who is God blessed for ever Oh therefore wait and watch to know that which is the weight of God's Power that it may arise over that which lies as a burthen upon the Just Principle of God and that that may be removed and that which is as a weight and burden of and from the Lord that it may be known and believed in and that is it that will take off the weight of sin that presseth down the soul And so waiting in the watchfulness sence of feeling will more and more be witnessed and of discerning to know the one from the other by which discerning as it increaseth in you you will come to know the movings of the pure power of God and the weight of his Law of Commands that you may be obedient unto them that in so doing you may come to eat the good of the Land and also you will come to know the working of the deceitful part and the imaginary part which is not of God and it will work in a Mystery but as thou feelest that which is pure in thee thou wilt also feel a love raised up in thee to it which riseth from its nature and growth then thou wilt watch unto that which is pure that it may stay thy mind then thou wilt know a guide unto thy mind which thou must know infallibly in thy self and this is a stay to fix upon which is sure steadfast certain and infallibly true which is the measure of the gift of God the Light Life and Seed of his eternal Spirit of holiness And this being known and witnessed in thee then thou wilt know a sure certain retiring place to retire unto in all times of need and this in thee and herein wilt thou know the Standard of the Lord set up in thy heart and it is to be sled unto when the enemy doth assault thee and comes in like a flood upon thee as he may do to seek to drown thee and to drive thee from this sure refuge But this is the strong Tower which is the Name of the Lord it being fled unto and this everlasting Rock being built upon the gates of Hell and Death cannot prevail against it And herein comes the glorious Renown of the royal Seed and Off-spring of God to be witnessed which gives and gets the victory over all sin and brings in everlasting righteousness And as all stand in the Light the righteous Power they will witness and feel stirring in them which will beget a true hungring after the everlasting righteousness of God and that by it alone they may be covered and so will wait and watch to have it more and more revealed in them and so to receive it into their hearts and then nothing more desirable unto such then to be covered with the same and the power of it will so inflame your heart with love to it because of the nature of it which will burn up not only your unrighteousness but your righteousness also and so you will come to be acquainted with that which abides for ever and evermore the Life of the Son of God which will make free from the Law of sin and death and then sin shall not have Dominion over them which walk not after the flesh but after the spirit no nor their righteousness they will not glory in at all for now they are not under the Law but under the free Grace of God which believe in the glorious Light of the glorious Gospel of the blessed God and this comes to be multiplied in and upon their hearts and the manyfolds of it comes to be known and read within and herein they come to be established and setled and grounded in the eternal Truth as it is Jesus though they may meet with many oppositions in the travel of its workings for many and great will be the tryals and temptations in their passing forth of Egypts Land of darkness and out of the shadow of death woe sorrow and perplexity before they come to the Land of Canaan the Land of Rest and Peace and Quietness and Assurance for ever yet in all the tryals and tribulations they meet with in passing out of darkness to walk in the Light believing in it and minding of it the Power of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth which is the Light will be with them that receive the Light the Witness of God placed in them to be their Leader and Guide by his Pillar of Fire by night when it is dark upon them to shew them the way that they should go or by his Cloud by day as it will seem a Cloud to them but light to him who is Light to guide them for they may go too fast and be too hasty therefore he will stop them that they may be subject to him both in their journying and standing still they that can receive it let them that know what I say that so all may be acquainted with the motion of God in all particulars that they may not onely have the Light which all have though they be not guided by it which is the true guide and way to God and everlasting rest but that they may know it assuredly by the true and infallible testimony of it self in them by the daily exercise of it and so the strength they daily feel to be renewed upon them in their hearts and so they will come to know the Life of it to be an everlasting refuge to sly unto in all times of need tryals and temptations and so they come to grow in the strength of the Almighty God who hath

man to bring these strong holds of sin and iniquity under his righteous Seed and that that will not that he shall raign must be slain before him by his righteous sword with two edges And blessed of the Lord God for ever are all such that are entred into this war and that stand faithful in this battel warring with the armour of God which are the several branches or weapons of the seed of Light and Life which are mighty through God to the casting down of strong holds and bringeth every thought into obedience to the Light and this is through believing which purifies the heart and that is the Faith which if it be but as a grain of mustard seed victory over mountains of sin will be witnessed and a hope will be begotten and patience and experience of the working of its power and this will be as the Anchor of the soul sure and stedfast against all the storms and tempests that may arise to drive the soul to shipwrack from its God which is its only strength and so the glory of the Seed of everlasting bliss comes to be known to increase in its battels and wars against all the fruits of the evil and cursed seed of the Serpent and Christ's Ensign comes to be lift up and his Standard comes to be gathered unto and his valiant displaying of his Banner is known with triumph in the victory of so glorious a Captaine of Salvation which saves and redeems out of that vile servitude by which they were kept in by the Devils power which carried them captive at his will unto every sin and noysom lust Oh therefore all come to the Light in each particular Conscience which is the pure gift of God that by it you may see and discern the enemy of God and of your souls deliverance out of that captivity by which he would still keep in bondage the soul and the righteous Seed of the Lord God but in the Light wait and watch to see him in all his wiles and ways of working to keep this Light in obscurity and the vertue of it under that the glory of it might not be known But my dear friends believing in the Light and owning the sufficiency of it Oh it will raise out of all obscurity and it will shine and discover all the darkness and all the ways and works thereof and it will arise in strength and whet its glittering Sword of power to cut down all that stands in the way of it and he will be known to be as a fire to burn up all those briars and thorns chasfe and stubble for the Light of Israel is as a fire and his Holy One as a flame to burn and consume all that stand in the way of it and nothing is to strong for it and though the sins and iniquities be as pricking briars and thorns as chasfe and stubble and all gathered as thick combustible matter to wound prick choke and smother to darken cloud vail and cover this noble Seed and Off-spring of Light by its own power it will arise out of it all and make it all manifest to their utter destruction as there is a waiting in it and so that appearance being felt and believed in the further manifestation of it will arise and so it will be known not onely to discover the darkness and deeds thereof and the opposition the Prince of darkness makes against the Light but set up his judging and condemning power and his full strength to cut off and destroy the Devil and all that stands in the way of his setting up of his Kingdom of Righteousness and Peace in the hearts of men And therefore doth he appear to sit as a refiner of silver and as with fullers sope to purifie and cleanse the hearts and consciences of all those that believe in him who is the Light of the world which in the fallen state and the unbelieving state are defiled by sin and rebellion against the Lord in which state all men are in let their Profession be what it will till they come to believe in the Light the Seed of the everlasting Covenant freely given unto man for him to be guided by it alone which whosoever comes to believe in they receive the power and vertue of it and so are acquainted with its operation and the nobleness of its strength life dominion and authority which gives victory over the power of darkness but this glorious victory of the Lamb's power who is the Covenant of Light Truth and Seed which serves the Lord none can understand nor witness while they stand in the disobedience to the Light which shines in the darkness which comprehends it not Therefore if men would understand the manifestation of this noble Seed which is the glory of the whole Creation of God for from that holy Womb where it rests and from whence it came was the pure Creation brought forth which was before corruption was and therefore all the whole Creation must be subject unto it and its pure power and must believe in the least appearance of it now in its restauration of all things as they were in the beginning Therefore there is an absolute necessity of believing in the measure of Light manifested from God in the heart and conscience though they be dark and covered with the shadow of death this Light doth shine upon them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death And it is for this end that they upon and in whom it shines may turn to the Light that by it they may be turned from the darkness and death and so might not abide in death and darkness but might receive the light of Life and so come to be acquainted with its power and vertue that in the Light and Life they may walk abide and dwell and so no more to be of the night of thick darkness but of the pure sun-shine of the clear day by which they come to be known to be the children of the day redeemed by him who is Light unto him all power is given both in heaven and in earth to redeem from the dark state which the whole world lie in that do not nor will not believe in the Light of Christ in their hearts freely given from the Father of Lights which is their condemnation which in its day and time hath shined upon them but they still rejecting of it this Light comes to be put out as to them though never can be as in it self but it shines alwayes bright and clear and to such in whom it is put out it will be known to be a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God who is a consuming fire and everlasting burnings to all that wilfully disobey and reject the Light which shined in them which is a manifestation of the glorious Gospel of the blessed God whose sound is gone forth over all the earth and his word unto the end of the world And if this Gospel be hid

given forth not to satisfie the comprehending part of that which may for a time be satisfied with the truth of words but there is that which cannot be satisfied with the clearest demonstration of the purest words that may be uttered forth by the mouthes of the best of the sons of men which are uttered forth for this end to direct the mind where and upon what to wait and to stir up that which is pure in man that he may come to be satisfied with the Life it self which the Word soundeth forth from the Life and from the living Power so that that which hath been dead may live by it again The Soul which is immortal no mortal thing can satisfie but the immortal Word and living Power of God that alone can satisfie the hungry soul which is satisfied with the Righteousness of God and with nothing else and to that alone I desire to be known and that will reade me in the heart where the Light doth operate and bring into obedience to the same for which end is this and all that comes from the same Spirit in the several demonstrations and manifestations of it unto the sons of men to bring all into the Light and to obey it that in the life and power thereof they may live to the praise and glory of his Grace that Life may be magnified over all and so I have my end A few Words more to Friends which are in the Truth to stand fast therein unto the end that they may feel the Crown and Dominion of the Lambs Power now in this great Day of Tryal Which is as followeth SO all my dear Friends stand fast in the Truth which you have believed in and received for it is a day of tryal and a time of great temptation wherein the enemy is exceeding subtil and crafty and wars in a mystery even the Mystery of iniquity to drive from the hidden wisdom of God the mystery of the powerful workings of Christ in the secret hidden and inward man of the heart renewed by the working of his mighty power But Oh God! thy Throne endures for ever and the scepter of thy Kingdom is an everlasting Scepter of living righteousness And thy foundation is from everlasting and this foundation Stone thou hast laid in Sion thy beloved City and that which is built thereupon is of its own nature and hath its being and standing in that which was before the foundation of the Earth was laid the unmovable power of the Lord God which was before any thing was unto which the changable visible dissolvable moveable power must be subject Yea thy own whole Creation which thou madest which is good as thou madest it and man in it upright and thou madest it all to be subject to thee and to stand in thy counsel and to subject to thy holy will but the subtil Serpent wrought in subtilty to betray the innocent being which God had made he being ignorant of that foundation which was in the very secrets of God's heart and which he had prepared in his own secret counsel for man's restauration back again into a more sure standing than upon any righteousness of man's own and that man might be built upon the foundation that standeth sure and that upon it might stand firm never to be removed from it by all the subtilty and sleights of the enemy nor by none of all the storms and tempest and violent floods and waves of foming Seas that he may raise and may be very ready to go over the Souls But the Decree being set Hither must thou go and no further here must thy proud waves be stayed And therefore now being come to that which was hid in God before the world was the great mystery of God revealed in us which is Christ the great power of God in whom we were chosen before the foundation of the world was laid and we are come to that which shall abide for ever when all things are dissolved which have done their work that was to last the time appointed And when all those spirits that would draw rend from this sure foundation Christ the light everlasting rock those spirits shall weary themselves for very vanity and shall eat the fruit of their own wayes which will be indignation and wrath and shall be serapated from the presence of the God of our Life and we in him shall have the victory in the Lamb's power and authority over all the subtil temptations of the wicked one and we shall sit in the habitation of Peace and Rest above all the habitations of Cruelty and over all deceitful workings of guileful Men in the Dominion that our Captain hath purchased for us which answereth the will of his Father which gave him a ransom for many that our Assurance may stand as it doth upon a more sure Foundation and better Promises than that of the Law of Works that so we might not be shaken nor moved in our minds nor hearts by any slights of the Devil nor Men which lye in wait to deceive They being ignorant of God's righteousness and of his great love towards us that believe and hope in his mercy for ever And in that love life and power of his everlasting righteousness we can see through all the thick darkness of this world and over all the confused commotions and stirs of the many Waters which are People Nations and Languages of Babylon the Mystery of Iniquity And that which doth see through all these is the immortal Seed the power of the infinite God the Light and Spirit of Truth which gives the victory over them all Therefore know it more and more that so in it you may stand and be bold and valiant you spiritual Warriors of and in the Lamb's power and that meddle not with the lower powers of the darkness of this world which lie in wickedness and so act with carnal weapons the will of the Devil which acts in wicked men their wicked ends to accomplish in which stands their strength and outward force of the weapons of war which are carnal but our weapons are spiritual and not carnal which do over come the strongest force of all outward strength of Men and Devils For they war with the arm of flesh against Christ the great power of God we standing fast in the Truth shall see the Spirit of the Lord will blast them all with his Spirit of patience and long-suffering which is the Lambs power which gives the Faith and Victory over all through the operation of Christ which is as I said the great power wisdom and righteousness of God the Father of all things who is ordained a Light and a Lamp for ever to light the Israel of God into that state where there will be no need of the Sun nor Moon for the Lord God and the Lamb will be their Light for ever and evermore Amen 1. HE that i' th' Life and love doth stand Shall surely know Christ's just command And movings of his divine power Guiding his actions every hour 2. That Rule alone doth guide aright And shew the darkness from the light It lights him the assured way That leads him to the perfect day 3. To know the Sun that shines so bright and clear And makes all misty fogs and shadows disappear That Light and Life be known the Standard of the Lord Which doth to all his own comfort and strength afford 4. This is the hand that leads to the most heav'nly rest By which alone all that are led for ever sure are blest The Light which is the Love that from the Life doth spring Shews us the lovely virtue and fruit of ev'ry thing That eye which only can discern and clearly see The God and Guide of man to all etenity 5. Which Life Love so freely doth from him for ever flow His Wisdom and his Righteousness he unto men doth show In them that so his glory might unto its height arise That they may love to magnify his Name in any wise Who is the author of all good unto the sons of men And from his bosom hath his love most freely shew'd to them 6. The Son of everlasting bliss In whom perpetual rest there is Through th'everlasting Covenant Made good to all the penitant 7. Who forsake sin which God desies And periods all their miseries Is Christ the Light by whom we gain Redemption from eternal pain THE END

begot them by his Word and Power and begun a good work in them by his Light which hath turned them from the darkness they believing in it by which he will perfect it unto the end and will carry it on to his glory for ever and then they shall know evidently that he hath wrought a change in them and hath made and is making their hearts pliable to his holy will and pleasure and hath performed and is a performing his free promise in them in making them to be willing in this the day of his power manifest in them in the beauty of holiness and so holiness becomes a delight unto them as formerly they took delight and pleasure in sin and iniquity they now abbhor it and as they took pleasure in unrighteousness now they delight to do righteously and love God's own righteousness and to walk humbly with the God of their salvation and so they wait upon him to feel his pure power to break their hearts and melt them in his presence that they may always witness soft hearts tender broken and contrite and so they feel his Love which is their Life shed abroad in their hearts and this they minding of it will keep them always in a suitable frame to do and suffer the will of God and to stand and abide in his counsel And who ever thou art that art come so far let thy tryals be what they will and though they may come thick upon thee as a dark cloud and as a mighty Storm and Tempest and as an overflowing Sea and Floud thou feeling thy mind retired in the innocent state inward to feel the Power that opens thy heart and thou feeling the springs of Life stirring in thee and bubling forth into every part with its refreshing vertue of the noble and righteous Seed of eternal Life to rise up in thee therein is thy refuge and stay and safe harbor and then thou art safe as in the Arms of God and this is the Law which the Isles are to wait for and the Arm on which they are to trust and that is his eternal and everlasting Power to be renewed upon them day by day and his Love and Life raised in them and this preserves above and a top of the storms and tempests and the thick cloud will scatter and the clearness of the Son of Righteousness doth arise above all obscurity in them to the great and exceeding refreshing and comfort of their hearts with the Lamb's Power which gives the victory and the dominion over all the many tribulations and so they come to be acquainted with that in which their preservation stands which is the refuge of all the faithful servants of the living God which are acquainted with his exceeding strength to stand by them in all times of need yea in sharp temptations and sore trials and many tribulations that doth and will assault them both within and without on the right hand and on the left He that can understand may read me A word to the Wise is sufficient But it is that their Faith Hope and Patience may be tried and that they may grow in the Experience For Tribulation worketh Patience and Patience Experience and Experience Hope and Hope maketh not ashamed in the Day of the Lord which they wait and hope for which will bring them forth as gold and that they may have knowledge of the same not onely to have that which stands by them in a time of need which all men have less or more though they know it not but them that stand fast in the time of trial to have the certain knowledge by the experiment of the workings of his divine power that their Faith and Hope may stand in God and not in the best of the sons of men And therefore it must be tried by the contrary opposition yea and by something like it self and the Almighty Jehovah knows his own work which he hath wrought in every part thereof from the beginning of it and how he doth and will carry it on but this Stone is a tried stone sure and pretious therefore he will have every one that are built thereupon come to the knowledge of it in themselves that so they may stand in the strength of it in the measure received from God that they may stand faithful not onely to have Faith but to have the knowledge of it by the tryal of it that they may know the increase of it and to be full of Faith and of the knowledge of his pure Spirit that so they may walk in the Spirit and then there will not be a fulfilling the lusts of the flesh but a mortifying the deeds of the flesh by the Spirit and so the Spirit of God is the leader And as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God And if Sons then Heirs and Joynt-Heirs with Christ the everlasting Seed and Covenant of God in and with man And so they know their Heir-ship by the Spirit of the Son in them by which they call God Father and so they come daily to receive the Gift of the Father which is Eternal Life manifested in the Son Christ in them which is the Hope of Glory And hereby they come to the knowledge of the Lamb's Power and Seed of God's renown the blessed Root and Off-spring of David the bright and morning Star the Glory of the Saints and faithful Children of the Most High God of Heaven and Earth which is the Power that every knee must bow unto and every tongue confess to the glory of God the Father of all mercies who from the bosom of his own Love hath manifested this so great a kindness and his wonderful power which doth translate from the Kingdom of Satan into the Kingdom of his dear Son the Light of the world and Seed of the everlasting Covenant of Life In him are all the Promises Yea and Amen Much more might be said concerning the Royalty Power and Authority Dominion and Victory of the Renowned Seed and Noble Off-spring of the Lord God Almighty but it may be summoned up in this The Eternal Arm of the Lord God's Power is manifested to destroy Sin and Satan's Power in man and to bring man into obedience of the pure Power of the Lord God again by which he was created and from which he fell the Word which made all things that is near in the heart and mouth which searcheth the heart and tryes the reins and divides between the precious and the vile and cuts off the vile and preserves the precious that it may serve him for ever in the Beauty of his own Holiness without which no man shall see the Lord who is Light and Life for ever and evermore He that will understand what 's before mentioned must reade within with the Light in the Conscience which must give the knowledge of it for from the experience of the working of the Light Life and Power of God are these few lines