And now, _Eusebius_, how is the great controversy about religion, and salvation, ♦shortened. ♦ “shortned” replaced with “shortened” For since the _one_ work of Christ as your Redeemer, is to take from the earthly life of flesh and blood, its usurped power, and to raise the smothered spark of heaven, out of death, into life, your _one_ work also, under your Redeemer is fully known. And you have the utmost certainty, _what_ you are to do, _where_ you are to seek, and in _what_ you are to _find_ your salvation. All that you have to _do_, is to oppose, resist, to renounce the evil tempers, and workings of your earthly nature. You want no deliverance, but from the power of yourself. This is the one murderer of the divine life within you. And every thing that your earthly nature does, is under the influence of _self-will_, _self-love_, and _self-seeking_, whether it carries you to laudable, or blameable practices, all is done in the nature and spirit of _Cain_, and only helps you to such goodness, as when _Cain_ slew his brother. For every action and motion of _self_, has the spirit of _antichrist_, and murders the divine life within you. Judge not therefore of yourself, by considering how many of those things you do, which _divines_ and _moralists_ call virtue and goodness, nor how much you abstain from those things, which they call sin and vice. But daily and hourly, in every step that you take, see to the _spirit that is within you_, whether it be heaven, or earth that guides you. And judge every thing to be sin and Satan, in which your _earthly nature_, has any share of life in you; nor think that any goodness is in you, but so far as it is an _actual death_ to the pride, the vanity, the wrath, and selfish tempers of your fallen, earthly life. Again, here you see, _where_ and how you are to seek your salvation, not in taking up your travelling-staff, or crossing the seas to find out a new _Luther_ or a new _Calvin_, to cloath yourself with their opinions. No. The _oracle_ is at home, that _always_ speaks the truth to you; nothing is your truth, but that good and that evil which is within you. For salvation or damnation is not an outward thing, but springs up within you. What you are in yourself, what is doing in yourself, is either your salvation or damnation.