Complain then no more of atheists, infidels, and open enemies to the gospel kingdom of God; for whilst you call heavenly fire and spirit, downright phrensy, and mystic madness, you do all that infidel work within the church, which they do on the outside of it.――And if through a learned fear of having that done to your earthly reason, which was done to _Enoch_ when God _took him_, ye will own no higher a regeneration, than a few cold drops of water sprinkled on the face, any of the Heathen gods of wood and stone, are good enough for such an _elementary_ priesthood.――For let this be told you, as a truth from God, that till _heavenly fire and spirit_ are within you, you can rise no higher by your highest learning, than to be elegant orators about scripture words. What wonder then, if sacraments, church-prayers, and preachings, leave high and low, learned and unlearned, priests and people, as unaltered in all their aged vices, as they leave children unchanged in their childish follies? For where the _only_ fountain of life and goodness is forsaken, all the difference between man and man, is as nothing with respect to the kingdom of God.――It matters not what name is given to the old man, whether he be called a zealous _churchman_, a stiff-necked _Jew_, a polite _Heathen_, or a grave _infidel_: under all these names, he has but one and the same nature, without any other difference but that, which _time_ and _place_, _education_, _complexion_, and _worldly wisdom_, happen to make. By such a one, whether he be Papist or Protestant, the gospel is only _kept_, as a book, and all that is within it, is only so much condemnation to the keeper, just as the old man, a _Jew_, hath kept the book of the law and prophets, only to be more fully condemned by them. That the Jewish and Christian church, stand at this day in the _same kind_ of ♦apostasy, or fallen state, must be manifest to every one that will not shut his eyes. Why are the Jews in a fallen state? It is because they have refused him, who in his whole process, was the truth, the substance, the life, and fulfilling of all that, which was outwardly taught, in their law and prophets. ♦ “apostacy” replaced with “apostasy”