Would to God that ye would mind this one thing, To _make your own calling and election sure_! That every one of you (leaving the rest of the world to him that made it) would himself _repent and believe the gospel_! Not repent alone (for then you know only the baptism of _John_) but believe and be _baptized with the Holy Ghost and with fire_. Are you still a stranger to that inward baptism, wherewith all true believers are baptized? May the Lord constrain you to cry out, _How am I straitened till it be accomplished_! Even till the love of God inflame your heart, and consume all your vile affections. Be not content with any thing less than this! It is this loving faith alone which opens our way into _the general church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven_! Which giveth us to _enter within the veil, where_ Jesus _our fore-runner is gone before us_! 5. There is a still wider difference in _some_ points, between us and the people usually termed _Quakers_. But not in _these_ points. You, as well as we, condemn _all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men_; all those _works_ of the devil which were recited above, and all those _tempers_ from which they spring. You ♦agree, That we are all to be _taught of_ God; and to be _led by his Spirit_: that the Spirit alone _reveals_ all truth, and _inspires_ all holiness: that by his inspiration men attain _perfect love_, the love which _purifies them as he is pure_: and that through this knowledge and love of God, they have power to _do always such things as please him_; to worship God, a Spirit, according to his own will, that is, _in spirit and in truth_. ♦ “argree” replaced with “agree” per Errata Hence you infer, That _formal worship_ is not acceptable to God, but that alone that springs from God in the heart: you infer also, that they who are led by him, will use great _plainness of speech_, and great _plainness of dress_, seeking no _outward adorning_, but _only the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit_. I will look no farther now, than simply to ♦enquire, Whether you are consistent with these principles? ♦ “equire” replaced with “enquire” per Errata To begin with the latter: “He that is led by the Spirit will use great plainness of speech.” * _You_ would have said, “will use the plain language.” But that term leads you into a grand mistake. That term, “_the_ plain language,” naturally leads you to think of _one particular_ way of speaking; as if _plainness of speech_ implied no more, than the use of that _particular form_. * Alas! my brethren! Know ye not, that your ancestors designed this, only as a _specimen_ of _plain language_? And is it possible that you should mistake the sample for the whole bale of cloth? Consult the light God has given you, and you must see that _plainness of speech_ does not lie in _a single point_, but implies an open, undisguised sincerity, a child-like simplicity _in all we speak_.