Again nothing that we do is bad, but for this reason, because it _resists_ the power, and working of God within us; and nothing that we do, can be good, but because it conforms, to the Spirit of God within us. And therefore, you have the utmost certainty, that God, salvation and the kingdom of heaven, are within you, and that all _outward religion_, from the fall of man to this day, is not for itself, but merely for the sake of an _inward_ and _divine_ life, which was lost when _Adam_ died his first death in paradise. So that it may well be said, _circumcision is nothing_, and _uncircumcision is nothing_, because nothing is wanted, but a _new creature_, called out of the death and darkness of flesh and blood, into the light, life and perfection of its first creation. And thus also, you have the fullest proof in _what_ your salvation precisely consists. Not in any historic faith, or knowledge of any thing absent, or distant from you, not in any variety of restraints, rules, and methods of practising virtues, not in any formality of opinion about _faith_ and _works_, _repentance_, _forgiveness_ of _sins_, or _justification_, and _sanctification_, not in any truth, or righteousness, that you can have from yourself, from the best of men or books, but wholly and solely in the life of God. _Theogenes._ I have not the least doubt about any of these things. It is visible, that there can be no medium in this matter, either religion must be all spiritual, or all carnal; that is, we must either take up with the grossness of the _Sadducees_, who say, there is neither angel nor spirit, or with such purification as the _Pharisees_ had from their washing of pots and vessels, and tithing their mint and rue; we must, I say, either acquiesce in this carnality, or we must profess a religion, that is _all spirit and life_, and merely for the sake of raising up an _inward spiritual life_ of heaven, that fell into death in our first father. *_Theophilus._ Oh _Theogenes_! What an eternity is that, out of which, and for which thy eternal soul was created? What little, crawling things are all that an earthly ambition can set before thee? Bear with patience for awhile the rags of thy earthly nature, the veil and darkness of flesh and blood, as the lot of thy inheritance from father _Adam_, but think nothing worth a thought but that which will bring thee back to thy first glory, and land thee safe in the region of eternity. An Extract from Mr. LAW’s Spirit of LOVE. PART III. _A dialogue between |Theogenes|, |Eusebius|, and |Theophilus|._