This marriage-feast signifies the entrance into the highest state of union, that can be between God and the soul, in this life. This birth-day of the spirit of love in our souls, whenever we attain, will feast our souls with such peace, and joy in God, as will blot out the remembrance of every thing, that we called peace, or joy before. Need I say any more to shew you how to come out of the wrath of your evil, earthly nature, into the sweet peace and joy of the spirit of love? Neither notions, nor speculations, nor rules, nor methods can bring it forth. It is the child of light, and cannot possibly spring up in ♦in you, but from the _light_ of God rising in your soul, as it rises in heavenly beings. But the light of God cannot _arise_, in you, by any art or contrivance of your own, but only in the way of that meekness, humility and patience, which waits, trusts, resigns to, and expects all from the inward, living, life-giving operation of the triune God within you; creating, quickening, and reviving in your fallen soul, that image, and likeness of the holy Trinity, in which the first father of mankind was created. ♦ duplicate word “in” removed _Theogenes._ You need say no more _Theophilus_; you have confirmed us in a full belief of that great truth namely, “That there is but one salvation for all mankind, and that is the _life of God_, in the soul. And also, that there is but _one possible_ way for man to attain this life of God, not one for a _Jew_, another for a _Christian_, and a third for a _Heathen_. No, God is one, human nature is one, salvation is one, and the way to it is one, and that is, the _desire_ of the soul turned to God.” An Extract from Mr. LAW’s LETTERS. LETTER I. IN answer to your doubt, concerning joining any church communion, I will tell you what I would do myself. _First_, As to any defects in the outward form, and performance of _baptism and the supper of the Lord in the church, I am under little or no concern about them;――Because all that is_ inwardly meant or _intended by them_, as the life, spirit, and benefit of them, is subject to no human power, _is wholly transacted between God and myself_, and cannot be taken from me, by any alteration made by man, in the outward celebration of them. If the church, in my baptism, should sprinkle a little milk, or wine, instead of water, upon my face, it would be no defective baptism to me, if I had all that inward disposition of repentance, of faith in Christ, to be born again of him, which was meant, figured, and implied by such immersion into water, as was the first baptism. The same may be said of the supper of the Lord, however varied in its outward manner from what it was at first, if the inward truth, pointed at by it, is loved and adhered to by me, I have all the benefit that could be had by it, when it was kept in the same outward form, in which the first church used it.