It was after this manner
that he was made to the primitive Christians, righteousness,
sanctification, justification, and redemption; and if ever you will have
the comfort, kernel, and marrow of the Christian religion, thus you must
come to learn and obtain it.
Now, my friends, by what you have read, you may perceive that God has
visited a poor people among you, with this saving knowledge and
testimony, whom he has upheld and increased to this day, notwithstanding
the fierce opposition they have met withal. Despise not the meanness of
this appearance: it was, and yet is, we know, a day of small things and
of small account with too many; and many hard and ill names are given to
it; but it is of God, it came from him, because it leads to him. This we
know, but we cannot make another to know it, unless he will take the same
way to know it that we took. The world talks of God, but what do they
do? They pray for power, but reject the principle in which it is. If
you would know God, and worship and serve God as you should do, you must
come to the means he has ordained and given for that purpose. Some seek
it in books, some in learned men; but what they look for is in
themselves, (though not of themselves,) but they overlook it.
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