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water_n	fish_n	great_a	sea_n	3,519	5	6.8793	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54425	Beames of eternal brightness, or, Branches of everlasting blessings springing forth of the stock of salvation, to be spread over India and all nations of the earth, to the uniting all mankind as one single and simple body of everlasting love and peace in the original glory and creator of all things / written by a member of truth, John, who is called a Quaker.	J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?	1661 (1661)	Wing P1613; ESTC R2898	32,075	40

Element for if a burning Coal of Fire be cast into Water it becomes quenched by the Water or if a Drop of Water be cast into a great Flame of Fire it consumes to nought in a moment therefore it is not the visible Sun that gives the Fishes their being in the Seas nor yet Man his life upon the Earth but the visible Sun as aforesaid together with the Fishes and all other Creatures was made a servant unto Man unto whom all things unto this day are so continued that he having the service of all things visible yea of the Glory of the Winds which is an invisible Creature attending him with sustentation according to the Providence of the Glorious Eternal Wisdom should with his whole soul seek and feel after his Creator to attain unto the true knowledge of Him therein to worship Him with all Thanksgiving Glory Honour Obedience and Praise who as he made every thing to serve his Body into which his Glorious Wisdom infused a perfect and upright Soul which was the greatest of all Glories that in the beginning were created in how much it had a true resemblance in invisible manner of the Invisible Power and Glory that created it of which none other creature had the like could not expect lesse from Man than that he should worship and serve his Eternal Goodness with every Faculty of that Soul which He put into him But yet I draw nearer to the most certain and true Witness in every Conscience of Mankind to remonstrate a little the Glory of the most Glorious Sun of the Soul shewing how it is a Glory in the most Glorious Part where the external and visible Sun reacheth not to enlighten nor shine about That so in a little measure discerning the Excellency of the One in Glory exceeding the Other you may come to know aright the True Living Eternal Wise and Supream Power which ruleth and reigneth over all things In proceed whereof it is to be apprehended That the Soul and Mind of Man is the most noble part of Man in as much as every Member of the Body is acted as a continual Servant in Obedience to the Motions of the Soul and Mind of Man and also because the Soul is the Immortal Part being not formed of a dead substance as the Body was of the Earth which returneth to Earth but of an inspiring Breath of Life that for ever abides in a quick and feeling state the which Soul being taken out of the Body leaves it as aforesaid to a Conversion unto its first Mould Wherefore seeing the visible Sun only enlightens the Eye of flesh which is the servile part and reacheth no further to shine about a Man than without a Man from which a Garment Shelter or House is able to shade Cannot be the Supream Power and Glory But the Eternal Sun of the Soul shines into the Soul and enlightens the Inward Parts and searcheth the Heart and tryeth every secret Thought and is secret unto all things as having perfect knowledge of all things from which nothing can be hid For let a Man ascend to the Skyes it will reach him and search his dark heart there or if he go down into the Deeps it will follow him and be with him there and when the visible Sun is set and gone down under the Horizon even at Midnight the Light of the Soul can rip up every word and work in the inward secret thoughts of Sin and Evil done and committed by a Man and call the Soul to witness with it which brings a Judgement and Condemnation in the Conscience that smites a Man with Fear and Trembling within himself which the visible Sun in the Firmament cannot do for a Man may commit Beastliness and Murder whilst the visible Sun shines on him which he cannot do in Countenance nay nor without Condemnation of the Light of the Sun of the Soul and therefore the visible Sun must needs appear to be infinitly short of the Glory of the Invisible Light that created all things Again If the visible Sun had created the invisible Soul of Man then must it also search and save it and so be the greater Power and of a Nature doing all things which all may know that it is not so for in its proper nature as a single Creature it doth but serve in the things afore-mentioned not blowing any Wind nor raining any Water nor can it so much as drive back one Cloud of all that the VVind bloweth over it and so shaketh not the Trees nor troubleth the Seas which the storms of Wind do all which are created ruled and governed by the Eternal Power and Sun of the Soul of whom I speak but as a Child and Suckling He being in his Power Wisdom and Glory Infinite and Incomprehensible Yet in His Light I shew that although the Soul of Man is so inferiour to Him that the Souls of all Men in the Earth are comprehended of Him as a drop of Water in the Sea and as a Sand in the bottom thereof which every Man may feel within himself in his own particular Soul yet the low and poor Soul of Man reacheth to the heighth yea and far above the height of the prefixed Course and Circle of the visible Sun 's appointed daily Race So then the visible Sun as I have said reaching not within a man to search his Soul nay nor as it 's placed in the Firmament neither by Ray nor light of Ray thereof can enter so much as into divers Artificial places Caves or holes of Darkness made in the Earth through the Invention of the Soul of Man where the more servile part to wit the fleshly body of Man can enter being therefore in its glory so far yea and far more than I stand to mention below the poor Soul that it is infused by a Power into the body of Man Surely infinitly much more must it needs appear to be below the Glory of the Eternal Sun of the Soul and Power of the Creation by which the Soul was first made in His own likeness of Holiness and Innocency and comes again to be renewed into the same Image and Similitude to live in the invisible Glory of his most Glorious Life in the perfect Inheritance Fruition and Possession of his unspeakable Joyes and Pleasures for ever and evermore Now to the Purpose of the Universal and Everlasting Unity I am opened to speak of Three Properties of the Eternal Brightness That as all Men come to the Renovation into the first Similitude of Innocency and Union with their Maker in that Glory as the way is plainly and easily held forth unto all wherein they may so come to unite in their Maker as one sanctified Body for ever may see and sit down in the Joy of their happy Benefit therein 1. One Property of the Nature of the Holy One is Peace perfect Peace without ever having disquiet in himself All Souls therefore uniting to the principle of his Brightness in

of the Spirit of Love and Unity is the Blessed State A few things I have still to shew unto the INDIANS even such of them who have not yet known the eternal glorious Wisdom and Power of Creation who of himself being without beginning of days and end of time made composed and created all things in the beginning of time that as they come to the true knowledge of him may be turned from trusting in or worshipping of any created Glory and only believe and trust in him and come to worship him who is the Creator of every Soul on Earth as likewise every visible Glory that is placed in the Firmament of the Heavens To all therefore that believe that the visible Sun in the Firmament which ruleth the visible day is the Supream Power by which all things are ruled and governed and accordingly do worship it and the Moon that ruleth the external time of the night I have to give you to understand that in the whole Creation of Fishes and Worms which are in the Waters under the Earth together with the Worms that are in the Earth the Plants Trees and other living things that are upon the face thereof with every Glory of the Heavens viz. the Sun Moon Stars Clouds of Rain Hail and Snow Dews Winds Rainbow Lightnings and Thunders and whatsoever else may be sensed by the external Seeing Hearing Feeling Tasting or Smelling of the body of man I say in all these the Eternul most holy Wisdom and glorious Sun of the Soul is hid and vailed from man in his state of Sin and Corruption agreeable to what I have signified touching the contrariety between Corruption and Incorruption Light and Darkness Purity and Beastlinesse the which I passe by for the present drawing to the discovery of a few things in the Light of the Day wherein it may be understood That the visible Sun in the Firmament is not the Supream Power but that it is a Created Glory by the glorious Sun of the Soul which is the Eternal Invisible and Supream Power First from the nature of the visible Sun as it is a simple creature which is hot fiery scorching and burning so that if there were not a Supream Power above it ruling and governing it in a most glorious Power of Wisdom by sending Rain in due season which as a distinct and simple creature is contrary to the nature of the Sun being cold and moist the whole Earth would become dried up and utterly unfruitful by which means every thing upon the face thereof must of necessity die and perish Wherefore in the Light of thee Sun of the Soul you will come to know that the visible Sun in the Firmament was made and created to serve man and consequently not for man to how down and worship it To serve Man thus In one respect as a light to the sight of Mans fleshly or bodily Eye whereby he might travel work and labour in the time of the day for the sustenance of his outward being as the Eternal Power in his Wisdom hath appointed And in another respect tending also to Mans subsistence the Eternal Wisdom hath created it to serve Man yeelding unto the Earth of the strength of its heat after the cold times and rain drawing up from the Earth visible and bodily shapes of Trees Herbs Corn and all the good Encrease that the Earth in due season doth yeeld Again It is to be understood that the visible Sun hath its Decree and Appointment from a Power above it as it is manifest in its Rising and Falling in sundry Degrees in Winter and Summer and also by its constant course in twenty four hours compassing the Earth as a Circle and so it is evident that it is not its own Ruler and Governour because it is limitted to a course in all Seasons of its Appointment and therefore cannot be the Creator of any thing but must of necessity be as the other Creatures a Created thing because if one thing visible be created by a Power certainly all things visible must be created by the same Power and consequently the visible Sun and Moon also and that Man Beasts Worms and Fowls were created by a Wisdom and Power is very plain appearing by their several kinds and services and also being dead and rotten their very dust sheweth of what they were made in the beginning for whilst their End is seen to be dust their Beginning or Creation must needs be understood to be of Dust also and the same Power that created the Earth and all that in it is also created the Seas and all that in them is which is an Element contrary to the nature of the visible Sun where the visible Sun hath no power of burning nor yet of making Food in the Deeps to grow at the bottoms thereof to feed the Fishes that are therein But the same Eternal Power and Wisdom which filleth all places provideth a sustenance as well for the Fishes in the Deeps and all the Worms of his Workmanship in their Bottoms as He doth for Man Beast Fowls and Creeping-things that live upon the face of the Earth unto which the visible Sun Moon and Stars with the Clouds of Rain Dews and Winds are servants ordained and appointed by the Eternal and infinitly wise Creator of all things visible and invisible So then thus it may be clearly apprehended touching the Work of Creation That none other can possibly be the Creator of all things besides a Power and Eternal Essence which hath something of a Being in all things in the Tranquillity Love and Peace of His own Life in Himself by and in which all things are upheld and preserved in their due and appointed courses for that which Created all things must absolutely be the Life and Preservation of all things by his Continual Presence and undenyably also the death of all things through the withdrawing of his Essence and Presence because as the Creator is but one and his Life but one doubtless therefore it is but his Life alone that doth or can give Life his Presence that gives Being and preserves Life and the withdrawing thereof the fall of all flesh unto Death Whereby it appeareth that his Glorious Wisdom hath hid and concealed Himself from all the children and seed of Corruption in the Decree of the Death of Man's Body by Sickness Poysoning Drowning Burning Strangling Wounding Starving c. for He having created all things could make Man to live Under Waters in Fires not feeling Wounds without Food c. but his Glorious Power and Wisdom will not be tempted because He will be reverenced and greatly feared in all things and in Fear worshipped and served as the Creator of all things Now as for the visible Sun being naturally contrary to the Element of the Rivers and Seas cannot possibly dwell with the Fishes that are in their Waters so as to give them a constanr subsistance of Life the which the meanest capacity may easily perceive being a fiery

mighty Power until which there was no Enmity Envy Discord nor Cruelty known in the Earth but man was at Peace and Unity in his Innocency with the Holy One Therefore the Original Cause of Discord Envy and Cruelty was Transgression and the Chain thereof to this day among Men is the Power of Darkness For the sake therefore of your Redemption I am again pressed in Spirit to remind all with the Power that breaks the cursed Chain of Darkness which is the Light that is able to do it as all draw their minds into it and dwell in it in their inward parts and restore again into that state which was before Transgression was in the perfect Freedom and Liberty from Envy Enmity Discord and Cruelty in the Glory and Brightness of Innocency where the Wisdom comes to be received which keeps and preserves the Peace Love and Mercy in the Everlasting Power and Vertue of Life and here the Earth that once was the Kingdom becomes the Footstool and Heaven becomes the inherited Kingdom for ever which cloatheth the Soul with a Garment ten thousand times ten thousand fold brighter than is the Glory of the visible Sun for the Rayment is the perfect Glory of the Eternal Splendor which wraps it up as with the swadling of the Rainbow of Joys which is the Eternal Fruit and Benefit of the Blessedness of its Change from the nature of Discord Enmity and Cruelty to the Spirit of Peace Love Vnity and Mercy from Corruption to Incorruption from Folly to Wisdom from Darknesse to Light from Condemnation to Iustification from Death to Life Yet furthermore for the opening of the Counsel of the Mystery of Salvation O all ye Kings Princes Rulers and People every-where throughout the Earth know ye in your selves the Light of the Eternal Sun of Glory to be the bathing and washing Fountain that is able to make the Soul in every Thought even as white as Snow and feel it in your selves as the Refiners Fire which is able to purge you until you be made as pure as the Gold that is seven times tryed and therefore wait in the Operation thereof that you may see its blessed Effect in which Righteousness will run down as Streams and the Knowledge of the Glory of the Eternal Wisdom will cover the Earth as Waters cover the Seas and here you will come to see your selves as the Christal Chanels through which the living Waters of the Fountain of Heaven will be a continual Current the sweet Streams thereof overflowing the blessed Vallies within you and watering every Plant therein making all things fruitful in you and among you fruitful in Truth fruitful in Hope Faith Love Mercy Peace Fear Humility Meekness Patience Content Prayer Praises Thanksgiving Knowledge Wisdom and all Vertue this will be a Beauty in your Faces and a Diadem of Glory upon your Heads in which the Wonderful Counsellor will take pleasure to speak unto you in His Mysterious and Oraculous Language which shall be but one throughout all the Earth and will open an Incorruptible Eye in you even to see the Glory of his Eternal Face which will overcome you with Joyes and ravish you with Eternal Pleasures as a Generation that is carried up out of the Earthly Places Verily I cannot express the Sweetness as my Soul possesseth it within in the Spirit what besides my own state saved in the Eternal Sun of the Soul Oh! my Ravished Mind in the consideration of the Day wherein Nations shall imbrace the Heavens of all Love and plentifully suck the Milk of her Breasts which gives the nourishment of Eternal Life Oh! the Everlasting Consolation which the Children of Brightness shall possess and inherit in the Bosom of the Eternal Glory even for ever and evermore Amen And now Are not the thoughts of this Glorious Salvation Vnity Peace Love Ioy and Pleasure of Life which may in this way be found possessed and enjoyed to the End among all People and Nations upon the face of the Earth and in and with the Glorious Brightness in the Heavens above enough to perswade woo and compel all Souls even with one draught of the Cord of Love to receive and imbrace it as they may sink down into the Deeps and consider in what a good time their dayes are fallen into wherein so glorious a Way is now come to be opened in such plainness clearness nakedness and easiness wherein they may all attain to every tittle of the Benefits yea and a thousand fold more than the tongue of man can mention exceeding all that is before said inserted and written Surely methinks he that would miss a Portion of the pre-cited Blessings and eternal joyous Inheritance for want of looking for it in the True Way being so faithfully spoken unto him as to within him and therefore so easie to be found as not to look without himself to seek and find it must not only confess himself to be a Fool in his own heart but also as a Devil in his continual words and works and seven-fold worthy of Condemnation under the power of Darkness and Death unto its Pit of the burnings of Wo and Torment for ever and ever What therefore might I more say that the Dead might hear and live or that Rocks might rent and become hearts of flesh to perceive and understand for the Word is quick the Voice is piercing and the Life is powerful in and under which I rest in the pure perfect and blessed Peace hereby shewing forth in measure my Spirit and Soul created anew in the Holy Love unto all Nations and Peoples without respect of persons upon the face of the whole Earth wherein I stand clear whether they will hear or forbear By that all Kings Princes and Rulers are in the Light come thus far some may haply make forth their Convincement of the Truth saying It is certainly true and evident that an Universal Peace and Unity Love and Amity cannot be perfectly and purely had held and enjoyed among all Nations besides in the one Principle that unites to the Eternal Power in his own Life and Nature for He only being the Glorious Wisdom that created all things must necessarily be the alone Preserver and Upholder of all things and whatsoever stands united unto Him in the Life abides in the Perfection of the Peace Love and Mercy of the Immutable Spirit of Wisdom and Glory And none other way can there be unto Blessing besides the Light in the Conscience which is given of the Eternal Wisdom for a Way and Leader unto all Souls Quest But what doth this Light end and abolish Answ It endeth all the Wisdom with its effects and fruits which stands in the Adulteration and Separation from the Eternal and unlimited Wisdom of Holiness and Brightness It endeth all Customs Traditions Wayes and Worships and whatsoever may be thought that stand in the degenerate and cursed nature and breaketh all Bryars and Bulwarks of limitation that stand in the Curse as a fence