To All That Would Know The Way To The Kingdom
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{Page 18} To all who denies the teachings of God in Spirit, and would keep people in the teachings of men from the Letter, ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
What and where that New Jerusalem is, which came down from Heaven, in which there is no night, neither needs it light of Sun, Moon, or candle, but the Lord God is the light thereof: and into which shall in no wise enter any thing that defileth, worketh abomination, or maketh a lye, but whose names are written in the Lambs Book of Life?1
What and where that Sion is to which all Nations shall flow, where the lord shall teach of his waies, and from whence the Law of God and his word shall go forth; after which they shall learn war no more, but shall say, Come let us walk in the light of the Lord.2
What and Where that Covenant is wherein the Lord will write his Law in peoples hearts, and put it in their inward parts: and they shall no more teach every one their neighbor and brother; saying Know the Lord, for all shall know him from the least to the greatest: and whether any may expect to come into that Covenant in these daies?3
What and where that unction and anointing is, by which the Saints knew all things, and needed not that any should teach them, but as that anointing taught them of all things which was true, and in it was no lye: and whether it be of the same effect in these daies?
What {Page 19} and where that comforter is, which doth reprove the world of sin, of righteousness and of Judgement, and doth guide into all Truths, and shews things to come, and shews the things of Christ, and glorifies him: and whether that comforter may be expected in these daies?4
Whether any of the Saints of God may expect, and wait to receive his word from his own mouth immediately, as all the Messengers of God did in all ages: or there must be no word now but the Letter taken out of Books, and which hath been formerly spoken to others?5
Whether any may wait for that promise fulfilling in these daies, That all the children of God shall be taught of God; and whether that teaching be sufficient to salvation without any human help or learning from man?6
What and where that word is that people shall hear behind them, saying This is the way walk in it, when they turn to the right or to the left, and what that teacher in the midst of them is, which shall be no more in corners: and whether any may expect that word and Teacher in these daies?7
What that word of faith is, which needs none to say, who shall ascend up into Heaven, or into the depth, to fetch Christ from above or below, but which was nigh in the heart, which the Apostles preached to them which had it in their hearts: and whether the same word be not in the hearts of people now, though they mind it not?8
What that voice of Christ is which his sheep knows and how they come to know it from all other voices, and which all that hear it, will no more hear the voice of a stranger, hireling, or thief, but by that voice are brought to follow Christ alone; And whether Christs sheep bear the same voice now, and know it from all false voices?9
What that way in the wilderness is, which is called the way to all holiness, which the unclean shall not pass over, but it shall be for the wayfaring men, and fools shall not err therein: in which way the redeemed shall walk, and the ransomed of the Lord shall come up to Sion; And whether any may find that way who are strangers and fools in these daies?10
What the Ministration of spirit is which is given {Page 20} to every one to profit withall; and whether there can be any profiting without it: and whether it be not of it self an infallible guide in the waies of God, according to its manifestation?11
What and where that worship of God in spirit and truth is, which God alone seeketh to be worshipped in; and whether any can worship in Spirit, but he who is born of the spirit; and whether he that is born of the Spirit needs any guide in that spiritual worship but that spirit of which he is born, according to its measure and whether such worshippers have not been and are now different from all other worships, and therefore hated by them as in all ages?
What and where that is which enlightens every one that comes into the world, and is the condemnation of all that lives in darkness, because of their evil deeds: and whether there be any other condemnation but this light to all who believe not in it, but hate it?
What the Law of the spirit of life is, which after Pauls warfare did set him free from the Law of sin and death; which formerly had led him captive into the Law of sin, and made him wretched; and whether any now in these daies may look to be set free by the Law of the Spirit of life from the said wretched condition, who find themselves in it?
What that grace of God is which bringeth salvation and hath appeared to all men, and teacheth the Saints to deny all ungodliness and worldly lust, and whether it would not teach all the same, if they did not turn it into lasciviousness and they need no other teacher?
To All That Would Know The Way To The Kingdom
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