Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	beauty_n	fair_a	love_v	2,781	5	5.8271	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

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

darknesse but sin is darknesse therefore sin is not in God So that yet notwithstanding that I must tell you as before I have related that as all Powers are of God so all acts of what nature soever are produced by this Power yea this Power of God so that all those acts arising from the Power are as Pure as the Power and the Power as Pure as God So from hence it comes there is no act whatsoever that is impure in God or sinful with or before God Yet say you there is a sinful act or acts that are sinful so that if all that is an act be produced by the Power of God then why n●t the act that is sinful arise from the same Power so sinful in and with God As I have said so I say again that those acts or what act soever so far as by thee is esteemed or imagined to be sinfull is not in God nor from God yet still as I said all acts that be are from God yea as pure as God And yet notwithstanding that act or so much of the act that thou apprehendest sin is not in God nor simply in thy self for indeed sin hath its conception only in the imagination therefore so long as the act was in God or nakedly produced by God it was as holy as God but after there is an appearance in thee or apprehension to thee that this act is good and that act is evil then hast thou with Adam eat of the forbidden Tree of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil then hast thou tasted of that fruit which is not in God for saith the Text Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good good but not evil for God is good and good is God therefore it was he made all things good yea that which by you is imagined evil he made good so that thou apprehending that from God which is not in God doth of all his Creatures most abuse God in making God the author of that which is not in God to wit Sin But to the matter in hand Thou hast heard all acts that are had their being and birth from God yea acted by God to be plain those acts by thee called Swearing Drunkenesse Adultery and Theft c. These acts simply as acts were produced by the Power of God yea perfected by the Wisdom of God What said I a Swearer a Drunkard an Adulterer a Theef had these the power and wisdom of God to Swear Drink Whore and Steal O dangerous Tenent O blasphemy of the highest nature what make God the author of Sin so a sinful God! Well Friends although the appearance of God in me be as terrible to you as it were to Moses in the mount yet notwithstanding that what I have seen and heard I do not in the least tremble but rejoyce that I have this opportunity to declare it unto you however it may be received by you To that end consider what I said those acts called Swearing Drunkennesse Adultery and Theft those acts simply as acts not as they are called and by thee imagined Drunkennesse Adultery and Theft that is in and from thy imagination for there is no such act as Drunkennesse Adultery and Theft in God though by his Power and Wisdom thou executest this act and that act yet that appearance by which thou apprehendest and esteemest them to be acts of sin that esteemation was not in God though from God For indeed it is but imagination which is not yea nothing in this infinite being for as I said before so I say again the very title Sin it is only a name without substance hath no being in God nor in the Creature but only by imagination and therefore it is said the imaginations of your hearts are only evil continually It is not the body nor the life but the imagination only and that not at a time or times but continually Herein sin admitting of no form in it self is created a form in the estimation of the Creature so that which is not to God is found to be in a something creature as you have it related One man esteemeth one day above another another esteemeth every day alike what to one is pure to another is impure herein it appeareth but a bare estimation To this end saith Paul I know and am perswaded by the Lord Iesus that there is nothing unclean of it self but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean to him it is unclean So that the extent thereof is in reference to all things as well as meats and drinks let it be what act soever Consider what act soever yea though it be the act of Swearing Drunkennesse Adultery and Theft yet these acts simply yea nakedly as acts are nothing distinct from the act of Prayer and Prayses Why dost thou wonder why art thou angry they are all one in themselves no more holynesse no more puritie in one then the other But once the Creature esteemeth one act Adultery the other honesty the one pure the other impure yet to that man that so esteemeth one act unclean to him it is unclean as saith the History there is nothing unclean of it self but but but to him that esteemeth it unclean yea again and again it is recorded that to the pure all things yea all things are pure but to the defiled all things are defiled yea the Prayer and Prayses of the wicked are defiled as saith the History The Prayers of the wicked are abomination to the Lord. Observe not the act nakedly as the act for we find the Prayer and Prayses of some to be pure though to others impure impure to those acting in relation to the title his apprehension his Conscience in the improvement of them is defiled and condemned for a Swearer a Drunkard an Adulterer and a theef When as a man in purity in light acts the same acts in relation to the act and not the title this man no this man doth not swear whore nor steal so that for want of this light of this single pure eye there appeareth Devil and God Hell and Heaven Sin and holynesse Damnation and Salvation only yea only from the esteemation and dark apprehension of the Creature I will make darknesse light rough ways smooth not half light and half darknesse not part rough and part smooth but as it is said Thou art all fair my Love there is no spot in thee Observe all fair my Love in thee only is beauty and purity without defilement my love my dove is but one thou one not two but only one my love Love is God and God is Love so all pure all light no spot in thee So that consider what act soever is done by thee in light and love is light and lovely though it be that act called Adultery in darknesse it is so but in light honesty in that light loveth it selfe so cannot defile it self for love in light is so pure that a whore it cannot