hey lose their value.
If from the sober and religious, we receive them under the impression,
that they may be promotive of our good. I shall give therefore a summary
of these, as they may be collected from the work.

God has imparted to men a portion of his own Spirit, though he has
given it to them indifferent degrees. Without this Spirit it would be
impossible for them to discern spiritual things. Without this it would
be impossible for them to know spiritually, even that the Scriptures
were of divine authority, or spiritually to understand them. This Spirit
performs its office of a teacher by internal monitions, and, if
encouraged, even by the external objects of creation. It is also a
primary and infallible guide. It is given to all without exception. It
is given to all sufficiently. They who resist it, quench it, and this to
their own condemnation. They who encourage it receive it more
abundantly, and are in the way of salvation and redemption. This Spirit
therefore becomes a Redeemer also. Redemption may he considered in two
points of view, as it is either by outward or inward means, or as it
relates to past sins or to sins to come. Jesus Christ effected
redemption of the first kind, or that from past sins, while he was
personally upon earth, by the sacrifice of himself. But it is this
Spirit, or Christ within, as the Quakers call it, which effects the
latter, or which preserves from future transgressions. It is this Spirit
which leads, by means of its inward workings, to a new birth, and
finally to the highest perfection of which our nature is capable. In
this office of an inward Redeemer, it visits all, so that all may be
saved, if they will attend to its saving operations, God being not
willing that any should perish, but that all should inherit eternal
life.

This Spirit also qualifies men for the ministry. It qualifies women also
for this office as well as men. It dictates the true season for silence,
and the true season for utterance, both in public and private worship.

Jesus Christ was man because he took flesh, and inhabited the body which
had been prepared for him; but he was Divinity, because he was the Word.

A resurrection will be effected, but not of the body as it is. Rewards
and punishments will follow, but guilt will not be imputed to men till
they have actually committed sin.

Baptism and the Lord's Supper are essentials of the Christian religion.
They are not, however, essentials as outward