Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	blood_n	body_n	flesh_n	14,336	5	7.2820	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79912	A single eye all light, no darkness; or light and darkness one: In which you have it purely discussed, 1. The original of darkness. 2. What darkness is. 3. Why it is called darkness. As also, what God is within, and what without; how he is said to be one, yet two; when two and not one, yet then one, and not two. Likewise a word from the Lord touching the onely resurrection of the body, in, from, and to the Lord. With a certain parcel of quaeries to be answered from Heaven or Hell, / This revealed in L.C. one of the Universality.	Claxton, Laurence, 1615-1667.	1650 (1650)	Wing C4584; Thomason E614_1; ESTC R206526	14,911	20

indure but enstranges it self from darknesse from whence whoredom has its first original Light is so pure that it will not lodge with two but treads the steps of the Apostle saying Let every man have his own wife when as darknesse is not ashamed to ly with his neighbours wife for in light I declare that whoredom is the fruits of darknesse therefore no companion for light who scornes the society of a whore indeed Light is like Susanna that had rather dy then be desiled with harlots Yea innocent Susanna uncorrupted Light must be accused arraigned and condemned for that her accusers are guilty of Yet fear not Susanna thou shalt be vindicated and thy accusers condemned So that this is my Majesties pleasure to declare again and again that what acts soever is done by thee according as thou esteemest it yea according as thou beleevest it so be it done unto thee that is to say if thou hast committed those acts in Scripture recorded for swearing drunkenness adultery and theft and so acting apprehendest them let me deal plainly with thee to thee it is Sin and for so sinning thy imagination will pursue thee arraign thee and condemne thee for a Swearer an adulterer and a theef When as on the contrary thou art perswaded that those titles in Scripture and thy apprehension recorded for swearing adultery and theft be no such acts with thee but only titles without thee neither dost thou apprehend them any other but pure acts without title then I declare according to thy esteemation so is the act to thee and for so doing thy imagination will not cannot condemne thee but say with the Apostle We know that an Idol is nothing what thou esteemest Idolatry to us is none So that whatsoever I act though it be that act you call swearing adultery and theft yet to me there is no such title but a pure act for there is nothing that I do that is unclean to me no more then it is unclean of it self And yet notwithstanding this my priviledge doth not in the least approbate thee yea thee that apprehendest the title to sweare whore or steal c. because to thee it is unclean therefore not lawfull for thee neither canst thou upon the bare report hereof say Well if it be but as man esteems it then I will esteem it so too Alas friend let me tell thee whatever thy tongue saith yet thy imagination in thee declares sad things against thee in that thou esteemest them acts of sin thy imagination will torment thee for this sin in that thou condemnest thy self thou art tormented in that condemnation with endless misery so that I say Happy is the man that condemns not himself in those things he alloweth of No matter what Scripture Saints or Churches say if that within thee do not condemn thee thou shalt not be condemned for saith the History Out of thine own mouth not anothers will I judge thee Therefore remember that if thou judge not thy self let thy life be what it will yea act what thou canst yet if thou judge not thy self thou shalt not be judged For I came not into the World to condemn but to save the World But if the reproach and slander of Saints and Churches do cause thee to question thy self then art thou ready to say within what they report without I am guilty of what they accuse me So that true is the saying O Adam thy destruction is of thy self But before I conclude touching how darkness is made light sin holiness and so all deformity converted into its own pure nature it was my pleasure to treat somthing concerning the nature of this loss that whether darkness in Scripture recorded and by the creature believed be cast out as distinct from light and so said to be damned in that it is not light not pure but defiled In answer to that the Lord declares that those filthy abominable works of darkness by thee so apprehended shall be destroyed and damned But how or where shall they be damned that is in the sayings of this Text I will make darkness light Oh that this were purely minded then thou wouldst see that sin must not be thrown out but cast within there being in the Vat it is dyed of the same colour of the liquor as Saffron converts milk into its own colour so doth the fountain of light convert sin hell and devil into its own nature and light as it self I will make rough waies smooth Now it is damm'd and ramm'd into its only Center there to dwell eternal in the bosom of its only Father This and only this is the damnation so much terrifying the Creature in its dark apprehension that it shall be robbed and carried it knows not whither cryeth out I am damned I am damned being carried out of its former knowledge now knoweth not where it is therefore lamenting Master Save me I perish perished in its own Apprehension yet saved in the essential Thus much concerning I will lead the blind by a way that they know not and in paths they have not known I will make darkness light crooked things streight c. A Word from the Lord touching Resurrection there being reports not a few that I should deny the Resurrection of that body consisting of Flesh Bloud and Bone 〈…〉 Reason would arraigne me for a mad man 〈◊〉 w●u●d declare me anti-Scripturist in favouring 〈…〉 of Darkness which if rightly understood 〈…〉 the Resurrection of this Body both which 〈…〉 body is made of that is the life perfection and happin●●● of 〈◊〉 body but thy body consisting of flesh and bone i● made 〈…〉 dust of the earth therefore when thy body is reduced ●o its c●●ter then and not till then is thy body alive perfected in its happiness now for thee to raise this body it would declare thee a Tyrant for as it is destructive for the Fowl to live in the water or the Fish in the Firmament so to raise thy body to a local place called Heaven would to thy body become a Hell for as the earth would become a Hell to the Spirit so that place called heaven would become a hell to the Body for after laid in the grave it is buried in its heaven glory and happiness where it shall rot and consume into its own nature for ever and ever Yet not denying but that body quoted in the History shall rise which body hath several denominations as earthly corruptible dishonorable weak vile and natural body all which doth but make one cleer prosp●ct in which you may take a full view of what that body is made of that shall rise whether a visible body consisting of flesh and bone or invisible body consisting of the Sensitive within this body To this end the History speaketh on this wise That we our selves groan within our selves waiting for the redemption to wit our Body So that in light I declare that the corrupt senses must put on incorruption thy mortal apprehension must

put on immortality that whereas before thou wast alive to five and dead to one now thou shalt be dead to five and alive to one that lovely pure one who beholds nothing but purity wheresoever it goeth and whatsoever it doth all is sweet and lovely let it be under what title soever thou art risen from title to act from act to power from power to his name and that only one name pure and undefiled so that now thou art of purer eys than to behold any iniquity so that Devil is God Hell is Heaven Sin Holiness Damnation Salvation this and only this is the first Resurrection Yet here is no lodging no safe inhabiting in that thou art yet on the borders of Aegypt only with Moses on Mount Hermon only verbally not practically so short of the second Resurrection which is the life and power what thou saw for till thou be delivered of that thou wast risen to thou canst not say Death where is thy sting Grave where is thy victory Wonder not at me for without Act without Birth no powerful deliverance not only the Talkers but the Doers not only your Spirit but your Body must be a living and acceptable Sacrifice therefore till acted that so called Sin thou art not delivered from the power of sin but ready upon all Alarums to tremble and fear the reproach of thy body Therefore my beloved ones that supposeth your service is perfect Freedom by having onely light into anothers life know this that if light without life thy service will be perfect bondage and therefore it is when a creature is drawn forth to act in anothers life insteed of tryumphing over sin he will be conquered in sin so that I say till flesh be made Spirit and Spirit flesh so not two but one thou art in perfect bondage for without vail I declare that whosoever doth attempt to act from flesh in flesh to flesh hath is and will commit Adultry but to bring this to a period for my part till I acted that so called sin I could not predominate over sin so that now whatsoever I act is not in relation to the Title to the Flesh but that Eternity in me So that with me all Creatures are but one creature and this in my form the Representative of the whole Creation So that see what I can act what I will all is but one most sweet and lovely Therefore my deer ones consider that without act no life without life no perfection and without perfection no eternal peace and freedom indeed in power which is the everlasting Majesty ruling conquering and damning all into its self without end for ever The ensuing Queries What that God is so often recorded in Scripture and by the Creature beleeved First Whether he admit of a Corporeal Sustance to wit flesh blood and bones and if so as by some of the Creation is beleeved then the Question will be Where his habitation hath been is and will be to the end of the world I say if God admit of a corporal substance whether then any other but a local plaee caen contain that substance or that he can be omnipresent in all places and with all Creatures at one time in that substance c Secondly Whether God admit of any other but a Spirit so invisible and if so as by others of his Creation beleeved the Query is then where its Region hath been is and will be I say if God admit of no Corporal substance form nor image but only a spirit whether then any other but an invisible habitation an infinite boundlesse region can contain an invisible infinite boundlesse Spirit Thirdly If God be a Spirit then whether a Spirit can be confined from any thing and if confined then must we observe these two things 1. What he is confined from or confined in 2. What it is that doth confine God Fourthly If God be a Spirit and cannot be confined then whether God be not infinite and omni-present in all places and in all things as well Hell as Heaven Devil as Angel Sin as Holinesse Darknesse as Light Fifthly If God be infinite in all things then whether all things are not finite in God That if God be subject to nothing then whether all things be not subjected to God so as to do nothing without God nor against God but in the performance of the will of God as well Esau as Jacob Pharoah as Moses Pilat as Christ yea Sin Devil or any other instrument whatsoever Sixtly Whether a creature living in God so as to know God as he is known of God be not infinite with and in God and so all things finite unto him as unto God subject unto him as unto God whether Devil Hell Sin Death or any other thing whatsoever Seventhly If God be in all things then in all men the wicked as the godly wherein then is the state of the wicked worse then the godly yea if God be in both why have they not both one title but one wicked another godly Eighthly If God be in all things then in all Creatures that hath life whatsoever so that wherein is man better than these or hath any preheminence above these yet if he have by whom is it given and the reason of so being given Ninthly If God be in all the wicked as the godly why is not the wicked saved with the godly but if not saved what is that in the wicked more then the godly that is damned with the place where and the nature of that damnation Tenthly If God be in all why are not all things one in God and if they be all comprehended as one in God how commeth it they are two distinct from God yea so titled from the Scripture now if Scripture were indicted by God the Question wil be why it speaks not of things as they are in God but relates two distinct titles two opposites the one for God the other against God and whether that Scripture so contradictory be not the original or instrumental cause by which the Creation becomes blinded divided yea destroyed in worshiping that for God which in the Original is no God I say the Query will be whether the contradiction in the Scripture be not the contradictions in the Creation and that so long as there is this Scripture there will be Religions not Religious forms not Spirit war not Peace envy not Love the teachings of men not the teaching of God yea in conclusion there will be gods and not God no not that God that is all in all Alpha and Omega the God yesterday and to day and for ever FINIS