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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

SOME ADDITION TO A FORMER PAPER ENTITULED A SHORT DECLARATION of the Purpose and Decree of the Everlasting COUNSEL of GOD'S 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 Redemption and Glorification and to the Condemnation of them that resist it By a Lover of it and one who waits for its Exaltation over all and hath travelled and suffered for its sake WILLIAM BREND London Printed for R. Wilson 1663. Some ADDITION to a former PAPER Entituled A Short Declaration of the Purpose and Decree of the Everlasting Counsel of God's Heavenly Host c. OH thou Off-spring of God! Who can set forth the glory of thy Conception Birth and Being and the Womb that bears thee and brings thee forth and the Breast that gives thee suck and those Paps from whence thy nourishment comes Thou noble Seed and Plant and Babe of everlasting bliss my soul delights in the glorious beauty of thy exceeding comliness in every part of thy Body which art joyned to so glorious a Head which gives thee thy Being in himself who is over all Principalities and Powers the Triumph over Death Hell and the Graves sitting on the Throne of exceeding Dominion and Authority over all The almighty Power which is the beginning of the Creation of God is the first of thy Conception the Father of all Mercies from the bosom of his eternal Love and Counsel doth this Seed issue forth which is of perfect purity and clearness and uniteth not with any thing of that which defileth For that which defileth riseth out of that part which standeth in the transgression and in that Nature and Being which is not of God but of the Devil the Father of lyes and all false conceptions which stand in the time of the fall from God the seed of the Serpent which was brought forth since the Creation in the disobedience But thou noble Seed of the everlasting God who wert before Creation was or had a being in this Earth whose goings forth have been manifested in time though thou hadst thy Being in God before all time who wert and art the Fathers delight because it was from his own loynes and bosom of his eternal Love Quest How doth God manifest this noble Seed in Man Answ God who is Light doth shine forth by his Son who is the Light of himself in the hearts consciences of men which are in darkness and covered with the shadow of death which death came upon all men for the disobedience sake the Light is manifested to shew unto men that they are so in death and darkness and separated from God who is Light that they lie under his wrath and are in anguish wo and misery without any hope of recovery as from themselves or any power under Heaven And therefore this Light is God's Witness set in Man to reprove judge and condemn smite and check that which disobeys and sins against it and brings the sorrow and anguish upon the sinner as a reward for his iniquity And herein is the free Love of God manifested unto the world that he hath sent his onely begotten Son into the World who is the Light of the world that whosoever believeth in him who is Light in them should not perish nor abide in darkness but shall have the Light of Life Therefore the way to know this noble Seed and how God doth manifest it in man is to know and believe in the Light that shines in the dark hearts of the sons of men and as thou comest to hearken to its reproof and believe in that which shews thee the secrets of thy deceitful heart It will manifest its self in its power to discover unto thee that thou art not ruled by it but by the power of the Devil and the lustful deceits of thy own corrupt heart while thou standest in the unbelief and disobedience to the Light and by the power of the Light of the Son of God thou wilt see and be sensible of the strength power of sin and corruption and as the Light doth arise in thee thou believing of it wilt see unbelief and sin to be exceeding sinful and sin appearing in its nature and kind And this is the first operation of the Light after the mind is turned to it and convinced by it to let thee see thy state and condition that thou art without God and Christ in the world which nothing can discover but the Light nor make thee sensible of but the power of the same which is the measure of this noble Seed which God hath sown And Light is sown to the Righteous and this will bring thee thou following it which convinceth of sin and unrighteousness to receive and love the Light and so in his Light to see Light and to bring all thy deeds to the Light and to hate thy evil deeds and to love the Light that doth make them manifest and so thy heart being made manifest unto thee and thy sins set as in order before thee and the Light rising up in thee in its power judgement and condemnation then thou wilt come to abhor thy self for all thy abominations and this will make thee cry out What shall I do to be saved And to say O miserable man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of sin and death And there will be a hope begotten in thee to make thee in thy self to wait to know the Saviour and Redeemer that comes out of Sion and turns away ungodliness from Jacob. And so thou waiting in the Light which doth work such an effect as is before mentioned then thou wilt feel striving in thee Jacob and Esau the elder and the younger but the elder is to serve the younger Jacob the pure plant and Seed of the Promise the everlasting Covenant of God the Seed of the Woman which is to break the Serpents head And the ruffe seed Esau the seed of the Serpent the seed of God's Curse these will war one against another but the seed of the Covenant and of the Promise is pure clean and just single and upright and wars in righteousness for it is of the righteous God and therefore wars against the subtile seed of the Serpent the cunning hunter shister deceitful unclean profane wild airy flashy empty and is void of the knowledge of God which the pure noble Seed of the Woman the seed of the Covenant of Life cannot have unity with nor own any of its wayes or wild workings but discovers him in all his strong holds of sin and iniquity which rebells against the righteous Law of God who is the onely Lord and Law-giver And that is the cause of the righteous war of the Lord God in

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