first nature not knowing the word of God but only the letter, ye crucify the just and yet get up into the just's place, quenching the light within you. Now I witness it by the same word as ever was. They draw people unto the letter and tell them it is the word and to hearken to them who speak their vain imaginations of it. So they bear rule by their means over the poor people, which the Lord was ever against. For God is free and will have his people so and his gospel is a free gospel and his mercies are free and his grace is free. His gospel is free to every creature and his grace is free to every creature. His grace is not the letter, his gospel is not the letter, his glad tidings is not the letter, for many poor troubled souls may be under death and condemnation and have the letter and these teachers of the letter, and there lie wounded but no peace. So all people consider and see if you can witness your souls raised out of death and you brought into the everlasting covenant. So who can witness their souls brought out of death are come into the beginning, but thou that hast nothing but the letter and art spending thy money and thy labour and not satisfied, thou art following the greedy dumb dog which can never have enough. (C. J., I., pp. 72-75, condensed.) Jangling about the Scriptures. None upon the earth comes to witness the spirit of wisdom and of understanding and a sound mind, but who first comes down to the witness of God in him, the spirit of God which gave forth the scriptures, with which he comes to have unity with God and scriptures and one another with which spirit they worship him and all evil doers and transgressors upon the earth go from the spirit of God in them and the light. And all janglings about religion upon the earth, and differences about scriptures which the higher power goes upon, given forth from the spirit of God, amongst teachers, professors and people and churches is that they be out of the spirit of Christ the prophets and apostles were in, that gave forth the scriptures, and the servants of God in which spirit they had unity. For the fellowship is in the light, and the unity is in the spirit, and that is the bond of peace amongst people. But people out of that professing the scriptures and every one being exalted from the measure of the spirit of God in him and boasts of other men's lives and labours, are from the bond of peace which is in the spirit and so are in the confusion. (C. J., 656, pp. 218-219.) Knowing the Scriptures. And you that have the Scriptures from Genesis to the Revelations yet you know them not with your natural spirit of understanding, nor by all the tongues and languages since Babel; for none knew them but by the spirit of inspiration that gave them forth. (_Works_, V., p. 246.)