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A78561	A tender salutation: or, loving epistle to such, who have a breathing in the innocent life of my friends with whom I walked in the outward observances. Also, for my relations (after the flesh) with all others professing God, and that have any breathings after the truth in the inward parts. Wherein something is declared in the power and light of God, concerning the sure foundation, and the house of God, with the inward glory, government, cloathing, feeding, non-superiority, and safety, that is in Gods habitation. With a word to the weak to establish them, that they faint not at the appearances of outward trouble for their consciences. - Whereunto is annexed a further discovery of God to my soul, concerning the spiritual temple, tabernacle and ark of Gods testimony, being the truth, life, and substance of the temple, tabernacle and ark of the testimony under the legal day. - To be read in the light, which discovers the things that be of God. -	Chandler, Jacob.	1664 (1664)	Wing C1927A; ESTC R227552	24,960	33

was in a Type and shadow this is in truth and in substance Deut. 10.30 that was wrought by mans hands this is wrought by the finger and Spirit of God I say that Legal Ark was a Type Hebr 9.3 4. Exod. 23.33 and Christ Jesus the Ark of the New Covenant is the Antitype of the Tipe the residence of the Legal Ark was in the Temple or Tabernacle not in the outward Court or Sanctuary but within the Curtain or Vail called the Holy of Holies by Gods appointment so is the Gospel-Ark the Ark of the New Covenant it s in the holy place it s within the Vail Col. 1.27 it s not in the outward Court of profession or Sanctuary of observation but within Christ in you the hopes of glory And know you not that Christ is in you except you be reprobates 2 Cor. 13.5 II. In this Legal Ark whose place of residence as before said was in the Temple Deut. 10.4 5. and in the holy of holies in the Temple there was put the two Tables of stone whereon was the Law of the Ten Words or Ten Commandments by which the Jews in their day was to walk what does this figure forth unto us Rom. 8.2 but the Law of the Spirit of life which was in Christ Jesus the Ark of Gods presence which Law is alwayes in the Ark for believers to walk by as God said This is my Son hear him And Friends it s he only that teaches the will of God perfectly and profitably for none teaches to profit like him Hebr. 8.10 Jet 31.33 2 Cor. 3 3. I will write my Law in your hearts and put it into your inward parts said the Lord. It s not now as under the Legal dispensation a written Law without on Tables of stone or by pen and ink but upon the Tables of our hearts by the Spirit of the living God and this Law of the Spirit of life is read and known by all that comes to know it in the Lord Jesus Christ the light the Ark the Covenant and Gospel of God III. In the Legal Ark there was Aarons Rod put which budded in the Ark c. what does this figure forth Ans Heb. 9.4 Gal. 5.22 John 15.8 John 3.21 Isa 26.12 Ezek. 37.1 c. The Spirit of God which buds blossoms and brings forth fruit to the praise and glory of the pure God which pure Spirit is in Christ Jesus the Ark of God without which none can bring forth fruit except they abide in it and that in them working the works of God in them and for them for without this Aarons Rod viz. the Spirit of God what dry sticks dry bones are we bringing forth no fruit to God nor good to our Neighbour so that to me Aarons Rod does figure forth the pure Spirit of life Col. 1.27 29. and the budding is that fruit that is brought forth where it is by its operation and working and this is in the Ark in Christ Jesus who dwells in the Temple that is made without hands Acts 17.24 Chap. 7.48 IV. In the Ark of the Legal Temple there was a golden pot of Manna put c. Now what also does this figure forth I shall declare as God hath inlightned me in it and given my soul to taste hereof which is the sweet fruit and divine manifestations of his precious love to the soul in and through the Spirit it s the precious fruit of the Kingdom of light the true bread that cometh down from heaven John 6.51 the which the soul that eats thereof shall never dye and no soul comes to eat of this Manna but as he overcomes Rev. 1 ●7 and he that overcomes shall eat of this hidden Manna i. e. shall eat of the peaceable fruits and have the divine manifestations and sweet refreshings of the eternal Spirit of truth It was laid up in the golden pot now gold is the purestand finest of all mettals 1 Tim. 3.9 so this Manna I speak of is put into a clean Vessel into a pure and holy heart and the more any soul comes to be clean pure and holy the more they come to enjoy and see God For the pure in heart shall see God Mat. 3.8 Heb. 11.14 and without holinesse none shall see God But I say as they come to be holy and pure so they shall see God and the more the soul comes to see God the more is that soul transformed into the likenesse of God now the more any soul sees God and is like God the more does that soul eat of this hidden Manna i. e. this soul feels a spting of life peace comfort 2 Cor 3.18 joy in the Holy Ghost spring up in him wherein the soul comes to be strengthned fixed and established in God and his soul feeds on this and is refreshed and this is the Manna the meat he eats that the world knows not of and which a carnal flesh in all its outward shew cannot feel nor see John 4.32 for its spiritually seen and felt Blessed is he that knows and feels the living vertue and spring of it V. Upon the Legal Ark there was the Mercy-seat c. what does this shew Answ It figures forth unto us that the tender mercies of God is seated on Jesus Christ for God in himself is unknowable unutterable unexpressable unconceivable as having nothing to do with his creatures or his creatures with him but as he hath introduced himself into them through his Son and so the eternal God comes to be known seen felt and heard as he hath and does make forth himself through his Son by his Spirit so that all knowledge and mercy of God comes in upon the revelation of the Son as Christ said John 1.18 Mat. 11.27 None have seen God at any time save the Son and unto whom the Son shall reveal him Neither can we see God in the divine manifestation and discovery in the Spirit of his eternal goodnesse righteousnesse and truth except the Son does reveal him so that in this brief hint it may be seen if the light of God doth inlighten according to the measure of it that its on the Ark of the testimony of God to wit Christ Jesus that mercy is seated for this is the way of all mercy to the whole Creation Friends I give you but a hint of these things though sometimes I see much of these things in the deep VI. Upon the Legal Ark was two Cherubims covering their faces with their wings because of his presence Now as God manifests his living pure presence the flesh is hid and doth disappear and that soul is led by the Spirit and walks after the Spirit and not after the flesh Rom. 8.1 14. Oh when the Lord God in his eternal Spirit of light and holy brightnesse appears according to the measure of its manifestation what a trembling is there in the flesh by reason of his presence and glorious

Now Friends I am not a judging of any of you neither a disswading you though the evil mind in some may think I do insinuate to draw from the use of the Elements but do as the Lord shall direct you and as you see him going before you in all you do and moving you after and leave nothing undone that you are really perswaded in your Consciences to be your duty lest you get a wound to your soul and the Lord should say Who hath required this of you c. But know from the Lord God your life lies not here viz. in these outward observations though never so strictly observed but in God and the communion of Saints lies not here but in Spirit truth and power and therefore be not fierce against your Brethren that are not of your mind or perswasion in the outward observation Friends turn in and stand still from your own wayes and commune with your hearts and make enquiry Do I eat of this bread of life and drink of those pure springs of refreshment Does the Lord lead me into his green and fresh pastures and make me to lie down and repose my soul in eternal kindnesse And do I receive my refreshing from the pure and clear chrystal fountain of living waters Or do I take up in the outward observances and lesse mind this inward feeding this inward drinking of the bread and waters of life Oh Friends this thing is to be well minded and weighed in the truth and equity of God Now there be many a poor soul more a minding the outward observances than the inward vertue and power of the living God as it was in dayes of old so 't is now one cryes in this observation Lo here is Christ and others in that observation Lo there is Christ c. Every perswasion cryes up their own and sayes Come amongst us Christ is here in the observing of this order and others in that order and so are divided amongst themselves and are in confusion in Babylon and knows not where Christ is but what saith the Scripture Believe them not go not forth after them Now Friends Christ is nigh thee in thy heart as Paul did witnesse The righteousnesse that is of fatth saith on this wise Who shall ascond to heaven to fetch Christ down or who shall descend to fetch Christ up but what saith it Christ is nigh then in thy heart Rom. 10.6 7 8. Therefore Friends look not so much at the outward observation for Christ if that be it thou art in good earnest desirous to have as to a looking in for Christ for Christ as before said is within he is nigh in thy heart Christ is the pearl of price that great treasure that is hid in the field of every mans heart and therefore Friends stand still from thy own words works thoughts and carnal reasonings of the fleshly wise part and hearken to the voyce of Christ in thy own particular which cannot be heard but in a still quiet state of the soul freely resigned up to God to be no more any thing in it self but that God might be all in all and above all to its soul And as to the outward which man flesh and carnal wisdom make such a stir about they walk in as they have freedom and seeing the Lord going before them in it and if any thing outward be done otherwise it s but fleshly labour which profits not Oh but how many poor hearts is there that thinks God cannot be enjoyed truly and have communion with truly but it must be injoyed and had in such a way in such a form which I know is the language of men in different forms wayes or perswasions every one binding as it were and limiting the holy God to their perswasion but Friends the Lord is free to work where he please and when he please and on whom he please and this I have heard some say but will not stand unto it but bind up the Lord in his workings as much as they can and calls all into question that the soul injoyes of God if it come not in at their door though it do come in at the door of the sheepfold as I have had experience of and do know of what I speak and much more than this also But Friends the Kingdom of heaven manifests its self not in this or that observation but in righteousnesse in power Spirit and truth and this will be owned by many in words but denied in works and so manifest that they are in Babilon in confusion it s he in what Narion soever whether Jew or Gentile bond or free one or tother that feareth the Lord and worketh righteousness and that has all his works within wrought in and by God within is excepted of him it s not he that observes observations without but he that stands in the power Spirit and truth of God within that is accepted it s not thus much outward observance but this inward obedience That soul that is convinced of this is near the Kingdom near the possession now stand but still from acting in thy will and sink down into God and settle upon the foundation and resign up all to the Lord and stand to his order and cleave to truth with a purpose of heart and a little while viz. the Lords time he that shall come will come and bring thee into the Kingdom into the possession wherein thou shale enjoy all as before said and much more abundantly than I can speak of for I have but a stammering tongue in these matters yet what the eternal God has freely given to me to experience and to spring up in me freely declare I unto you my dear Friends all unto whom this is writ that you might all eat hereof and drink hereof i. e. of that which this points unto and so come to a higher growth in the birth of God though I may be traduced calumniated and persecuted one way or other either in secret smilings or open reproaches by some or other for I see in the light of God and through the revelation of the Spirit that the evil thing in some cannot bear that the power life and truth of God should clearly shine though in words they may speak otherwise that they might go undiscovered but may seek to destroy this holy Child Jesus the birth of God the shinings forth of the light of God by putting upon it some false glosse as delusion false light heresie blasphemie c. as they did by Christ himself and the servants of God in dayes past and so opposing of the seed of God and so as Pharaoh will labour to deal subtilly that it spread no further but I shall leave it and my self to the Lord and wait on him as being given up to his will not fearing what man can do or say knowing that I am a discharging my duty and conscience herein Of the inward adorning and beautifying of Gods House FUrther Friends the Lord my God

brightnesse that is shining in them Mat 17.5 6 7 8. that is seen and felt in the light and life of God Oh what a covering hiding and vailing of the flesh is there as not being able to look upon or behold such brightnesse of his glory Friends these things are true and faithful VII The everlasting God did promise to meet with his people in the Legal day and to commune with them upon the Mercy-seat c. Oh Friends God in old times did speak Heb. 1.1 2. commune and meet with his people in divers manners and at sundry times but now in these last dayes he has and does speak meet and commune with his people in and by his Son Mark 9.7 who sayes This is my Son hear him And it s he that has the mind and message of the Father and shews it his true Disciples He speaks not of himself but what he hears and receives of the Father that he declares John 3.32 John 10.30 1 John 2.23 and here it is that the soul meets and communes with the Father because he hath the Son for the Father and the Son are one and he that hath the Son hath the Father also and he that hath the Father hath the Son also Now as any soul comes to hear the voyce of the Son of God in themselves particularly and comes to obey the voyce of the Son of God in themselves which obedience is life comes to meet with the Father in the tender imbraces of divine love seated in his tender mercies but if the soul rebells and disobeyes his heavenly voyce Isa 63.10 and vexes his holy Spirit then the soul comes not to partake of this heavenly blessing to wit of this heavenly communication and glorious making forth of the eternal presence of the everlasting God but I say if the soul hears and obeyes the voyce of the Son of God as he obeys so he comes to have life and because he lives whose voyce it is they obey they shall live also for said Christ Because I live ye shall live also John 14 19. whose voyce is in the soul calling to be pure as God is pure holy as God is holy and so to live in all manner of holy conversation in the streamings forth of the life within 1 Pet. 1.15 whose voyce calls for a love to all righteousnesse and to a hatred and forsaking of all iniquity though never so secret whose voyce is for inward cleansing inward purifying As be ye pure and clean that bear the Vessels of the Lord. Now if we would be Vessels holding the treasures of heaven in us 2 Cor. 4.7 if we would be Temples of the Holy Ghost houses and habitations of God through the Spirit we must be pure clean and holy for Friends Holinesse becomes the house of the Lord for ever Now this the voyce of Christ the Son of God calls for in us Isal 93.5 and as every soul comes to obey the voyce of the Son in the Spirit of power he comes to meet and commune with the eternal God in his everlasting mercies Thus Friends ye have a brief description of what God has shew'd unto me though more sometimes by the light of God I see in a great deep for the which there is a desire in me to be found waiting on the everlasting light till he is pleased to bring it forth and duly manifest it Now how by Temple Tabernacle Ark can be meant or understood outward Ordinances as at the beginning was spoke of and for such that are come to this state herein mentioned and have no freedom to subscribe to and walk in I know not but I have a testimony in my soul that the substance comprehends and includes all the shadows and signs and signs are not for them that believe but for them that believe not so that if my soul enjoyes the substance and lives in the possession according to the measure the which I have an inward testimony of let who will question it the which some has done then I have the end of all the shadows and signs Col. 2.16 17. for they all end in Christ who is the truth substance of all light life power Gospel Covenant Word Supper Baptisme Rest c. so that in him my soul reposes and finds rest and in his light can dilcern betwixt the shadow and the substance the form and the power the letter and the Spirit not slighting that without yet esteeming more of that within and walk in that without as I find freedom within and so my soul enjoyes peace Isa 32.17 for its peace God calls unto and the effect of righteousnesse is peace and that is righteous that God works so unto what the righteous God works freedom to therein let 's obey herein none shall be oppressed and his Conscience Lorded over but walk in the freedom and liberty wherewith Christ does make free only Brethren use not your liberty for an occasion to the flesh the which if you do pretend to liberty in Christ and walk carnally you demonstrate that you know not this liberty and freedom by Christ but are in bondage to this day Judge not rashly least you be judged for with what rash judgment ye judge of the same shall you be judged withall Wherefore holy Brethren partakers of the heavenly calling consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession Christ Jesus Who was faithful to him that appointed him as also Moses was faithful in all his house For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses and Moses was faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after But Christ as a Son over his own house whose house are we if we hold fast the considence and the rejoycing of the hope firm unto the end Wherefore as the Holy Ghost saith To day if you will hear his voyce harden not your hearts c. So I sware in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest Because I was grieved with that generation and said They do alway erre in their hearts and they have not known my wayes Wherefore Brethren Take heed least there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God Hebr. 3.1 2 3 5 6 7 10 11 12. Now unto 〈◊〉 him who is able to keep you from falling I commit you and the peace of God that passeth all understanding fill you and God everlasting make you perfect strengthen establish settle you working in you that-which-is-well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory for ever and for ever Amen Near the end of the 4th Month in the Year 1664. Your Brother That waits to see the redemption of the pure seed of God in you all and its enlargement over all the Earth J. C. THE END

A Tender Salutation OR LOVING EPISTLE To such who have a breathing in the innocent life of my Friends with whom I walked in the outward observances ALSO For my Relations after the flesh with all others professing God and that have any breathings after the Truth in the inward parts WHEREIN Something is declared in the power and light of God concerning the sure Foundation and the House of God with the inward Glory Government Cloathing Feeding Non-superiority and Safety that is in Gods habitation WITH A word to the Weak to establish them that they faint not at the appearances of outward Trouble for their Consciences Whereunto is Annexed A Further discovery of God to my Soul concerning the spiritual Temple Tabernacle and Ark of Gods Testimony being the Truth Life and Substance of the Temple Tabernacle and Ark of the Testimony under the Legal day To be read in the light which discovers the things that be of God By Jacob Chandler That which we have seen and heard and felt declare we unto you that you might have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with the Son Jesus Christ 1 Joh. 1.3 If our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolved we have a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens 2 Cor. 5.1 Printed in the Year M.DC.LXIV To all those that love the Lord Jesus in Power and Spirit of my Friends with whom I walked in the outward form As well my professing Relations after the flesh with all else unto whom these presents shall come that have any breathings after the precious Truth and life of God Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplied the everlasting love life and truth of God dwell richly in you c. DEar Friends it has been oft upon me to write unto you of the things appertaining to the Kingdom of God in Spirit and Truth But my flesh with the reasoning part withstood upon some considerations that now I 'le forbear But now after much striving of the Lord God of Power by his Spirit in my Soul I am overcome with the overcomings of the love of God to write unto you And this I find springing up in me to exhort you in tender bowels of love to look at the power light life and truth of God within in every one of ye in particular for Friends it s not the outward profession that will stand you in stead in the day of Tryal and in the day when all Secrets shall be made manifest nor approve you to God without the power and truth of God within And therefore Friends in the bowels of tender compassions let the evil minded think never so otherwise I am moved as before said to exhort you to look to your standing that you turn inward and see what foundation you are built on for Friends that which is not built on a good foundation will come to nothing if the foundation be rotten and corrupt you know whatsoever is built thereon suffers losse Therefore let every soul take heed how he build thereon for every mans works must be try'd Now if you build on the truth and power of God you build on a sure foundation but if you build on some other foundation viz. some outward observation of external performances outward gifts parts humane wisdom or the sayings of men though they may be good men c. Be it known unto you that its a false foundation its deceivable and the whole building will fall great and lamentable will be the fall thereof There is but one foundation for every poor soul that would be saved to build on and another foundation can no man lay than that which is already laid and that is Jesus Christ the power of God the wisdom and truth of God This is that ground and pillar of truth that saves to the utmost all that come unto it and build on it Therefore Friends mind whether you have built on this foundation whether the truth power and Spirit of God be the thing that you mind the foundation that you build on How to come to the foundation and build thereon and how to know in the light of God when the soul has built on the sure foundation THere must be a digging deep to build on this foundation it s not so easie as many Professors think of thou must dig down into thy innermost parts into the secrets of thy soul deep yea very deep into humility must thou sink and resign up freely and must be content to be nothing in thy will wisdom understanding c. Oh soul before thou canst find the foundation the Rock to build on and in the deep thou maist find it for 't is hid from the carnal wise man by all his wisdom he cannot search it out and all his notional knowledge though he may speak much of the foundation is too short to fathom it And now Friends if you are built on this foundation this Rock then you are immovable and cannot be shaken away from the confidence that you have springing up from hence and you are sure and stedfast and you walk in the pure fear of the Lord and you are of tender bowels and full of compassion to all the Lords little ones and you are of a meek spirit and lowly in heart and you are of tender compassion to all the Creation of God you are weak with the weak and bear a dear sympathy with the afflicted precious sons and daughters of Sion let them be under what name and notion soever if thou seest they are built on the power life and truth of God by which they breath after the everlasting well-springs of life the fountain of eternal love thou hast a principle in thee if thou art upon the sure foundation that is stirred up with an endearednesse to such a breathing soul after the pure life of God for my Friends if we have built on a good foundation then 't is certain we have a good building if we have a good Root we have a good Tree and if a good Tree there must be good fruit Now Friends by this you may come to know whether you are built upon the power life and truth of God or what foundation you are built on Let me lay it farther before you NOW if we have a good foundation we have a good building a good house and there is good order and government in this house and good dyet good meat and drink and choice cloathing and blessed safety and no Lordly or Majestick superiority over one another in this house or family that is built on the power and life of God with other good things Now that soul that hath built upon Christ the truth and power of God hath a good building a good house and it s none other but the house of God the Temple of God and God hath said I 'le dwell with you and walk in you and be your God c. And this every Saint is in particular the habitation

of God through the Spirit this house is erected by the finger and power of Jehovah Tzebaot the Lord of Hoast The inward pure Government and shining glory and requirings in the house or habitation of God in the Spirit AND farther Friends this house of God has good government for its the Lord Jesus that rules and governs in this house and no other has right to govern but himself for it s his own and hath bought it and purchased it not with corruptible things as silver and gold but with incorruptible even with his own precious blood Friends when Christ is born in the soul of any whether Jew or Gentile bond or free the government is put upon his shoulder and to that end is this Son given and the Child born viz. that the government may be upon his shoulder that he might rule and govern and raign in the soul in his own house and he will raign in righreousnesse and governs with pure Laws of light and freedom not with Laws of darknesse and bondage The pure and everlasting God layes not hard service upon his children and servants he imposes no heavy task upon his family but what is in the pure freedom of the Spirit his requirings are according to the growth of his children and servants were it not there would be disorder instead of order but no no my Friends there is nothing but pure order in the house of God The ever-blessed God rules governs and orders all in pure love pure light pure fear taught by himself and not by the precepts of men pure righteousnesse pure truth and all inward Now to see a Saint walk and acting without from these pure Laws of God within oh what a great shine and glory does it cast upon all it does oh then if so great a shine without how great is that glory within it being all glorious it being that more excellent glory it being the brightnesse of the Fathers glory Oh Friends my soul admires this glory Friends sink down from all your selfnesse and somethingnesse and come into this most excellent glory and lie with my soul still from self-acting before this glorious God that this glory may passe besore us i. e. that it might more and more manifest its self unto us that we may come to be transformed from glory to glory by the pure Spirit of the living God Now Friends to see an house in such an order under such a government is to see it in a comely order to see it all fait and to have no spot in it Of the heavenly bread and waters of life that is provided eat and drank of in the family and house of God in the Spirit of the living God THere is not only Rule in this house but there is plentiful spiritual provision made for the whole family of God and duly administred by the hand of living power and vertue whereby it gives living spiritual nourishment for growth to encrease with the encrease of God the eternal pure God gives it the bread of life and the waters of life to eat of and to drink of and the soul being in a living state eats and drinks thereof and is refreshed and cryes out evermore Father give me of this bread of life and these waters of life Oh my soul though the e●ternal grace of God have an internal or inward caste hereof and it cryes and breaths in the pure fear and Spirit of God after more and I find it s not that I might eat and drink hereof alone but that all might come in the fear of the living God to eat and drink hereof also with my soul that we might rejoyce together in the Spirit and that we might sing a Hymn and spiritual Song singing and making melody in out hearts to the living and pure fountain of life giving pure and spiritual thanks alwayes to God in the name i. e. power and Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ Oh Friends every soul that is surely fixed on this foundation of God which alwayes stands sure have a measure of this heavenly food viz. of this bread of life and waters of life dealt forth unto him according to his growth and appetite that his soul hath Now we ought and it s our duty to be thankful with or for such a measure that we have and to eat and drink to the glory of God Friends if it hold true in the outward much more for the inward But Friends inlarge your appetite open your mouth wide and the Lord will fill it Labour for a greater hunger and thirst after this true bread and water of life and you shall be filled satisfied and refreshed Oh Friends thirst not hunger not so much after the outward observance which is a spending your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfies not and your strength and time for that which perishes But labour to feed more of this true bread that cometh down from God out of heaven the which whosoever eats of is blessed and to drink of those waters that runs by the Throne of God whose streams make glad the heart of the City the habitation the house of God here Friends does my soul come to experience what is meant by eating of the fruit of the Tree of life that John declared of Rev. 11.7 And here I come to understand know feel and to eat of the hidden Manna that is spoke of in Rev. 11.17 its Manna that is hid from the wise and prudent of this world but revealed to them that fear and love the pure God in Spirit and truth and such eats thereof to their souls nourishing and refreshing Here my soul comes truly to eat of the flesh and to drink of the blood of the Lord Jesus and so comes to have life in it for this is meat or nourishment indeed and this is drink or refreshment indeed I may eat long enough of the elementary things before my soul is nourished and refreshed in the eternal life but if my soul eats and drinks of this spiritual food then my soul comes to have life and refreshment as my soul knows right well through the Spirit Now in eating and drinking of the true bread and water of life we come to have communion with the body and with the blood of Christ for this communion is in the Spirit and not in the letter whose praise is of God and not of men for men are carnal and this is spiritual But this I know will seem strange to a formal person but let it its true and faithful yea and our communion as Saints is in the Spirit in eating this spiritual bread and wine of the Kingdom of God and not in the outward visible elementary things in the pure Spirit is our pure communion and our living communion in and by the living Spirit Here I come to know what it is to eat of the Supper of the Lord amd to drink of the new Wine in the Fathers Kingdom