Essays about the poor, manufactures, trade, plantations, & immorality and of the excellency and divinity of inward light, demonstrated from the attributes of God and the nature of mans soul, as well as from the testimony of the Holy Scriptures / by John Bellers.

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Title: Essays about the poor, manufactures, trade, plantations, & immorality and of the excellency and divinity of inward light, demonstrated from the attributes of God and the nature of mans soul, as well as from the testimony of the Holy Scriptures / by John Bellers.
Author: Bellers, John, 1654-1725.
Publication: London :: Printed and sold by T. Sowle ...,; 1699.
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Subject terms: Poor -- Employment -- Great Britain.; Spirituality.; Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 17th century.
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Of God's Manifestation in Men.

Isa. 2. 5. O House of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the Light of the Lord.

60. v. 19. The Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting Light, and thy God thy Glory.

1 Cor. 3. 16. Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God; and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you.

17. If any Man defile the Temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the Tem∣ple of God is holy, which Temple ye are.

6. v. 19. What, know you not that your Body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost▪ which is in you, which ye have of God?—

2 Cor. 6 16.—For ye are the Temple of the living God, as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them—

4. v. 6.—For God who commanded the Light to shine out of Darkness, hath shined in our Hearts, to give the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God, in the Face of Jesus Christ. v. 7. But we have this Treasure in earthen Vessels, that the Excellency of the Power may be of God, and not of us.

1 Pet. 2. v. 9.—Who hath called you out of Darkness into his marvellous Light.

Eph. 4. 6. One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Eph. 5. 8. For ye were sometime Darkness, but now are ye Light in the Lord, walk as Children of Light.

1 John 1. v. 7. If we walk in the Light, as he is in the Light, we have Fellowship one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son, cleanseth us from all Sin.

Rom. 1. 19. Because that which may be known of God, is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

Heb. 4. 12. For the Word of God is quick, and powerful; and sharper than any two-edged Sword, piercing, even to the dividing assunder of Soul and Spi∣rit,— and is a Discerner of the Thoughts and Intents of the Heart.

Isa. 57. 15. For thus saith the high and lofty One, that inhabiteth Eternity, whose Name is holy, I dwell in the high and holy Place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble Spirit; to revive the Spirit of the humble, and to revive the Heart of the contrite ones. v. 16. For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wrath: For the Spirit should fail before me, and the Souls which I have made.

Prov. 20. 27. The Spirit of Man is the Candle of the Lord: Searching all the inward Parts of the Belly.

Job. 3••. 8. But there is a Spirit in Man: and the Inspiration of the Almighty: giveth them Understanding.