“There hath been an apostacy since the apostles’ days, from the divine light of Christ, which should have given them ‘the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus;’ and from the Holy Spirit, which would have led them into all truth; and therefore have people set up so many leaders without them, to give them knowledge; and also from the holy and precious faith, which Jesus Christ is the author and finisher of; which purifies the heart, and gives victory over that which separates from God; through which faith they have access to God, and in which they please God; the mystery of which is held in a pure conscience. And also from the gospel which was preached in the apostles’ days (which gospel is the power of God,) which brings life and immortality to light in man and woman, by which people should have seen over the devil that has darkened them; which gospel will preserve all them that receive it, in life and immortality. For the eyes of people have been after men, and not after the Lord, who writes his law in the hearts, and puts it into the minds of all the children of the new covenant of light, life, and grace, through which they all come to know the Lord, from the least to the greatest; so that the knowledge of the Lord may cover the earth, as the waters do the sea. “This work of the Lord is beginning again, as it was in the apostles’ days. People shall come to receive an unction in them again from the Holy One, by which they shall know all things, and shall need not any man to teach them, but as the anointing doth teach them; and also to know what the righteousness of faith speaks, the Word nigh in the heart and mouth, to obey it and to do it. This was the Word of faith the apostles preached; which is now received and preached again, and which it is the duty of all true Christians to receive. Now people are coming out of the apostacy to the light of Christ and his Spirit, and to receive faith from him, and not from men; to receive the gospel from him their unction from him, the Word; and as they receive him, they declare him freely, as his command was to his disciples, and is still to the learners and receivers of him.