ut and blessed by Israel's true Shepherd. Old
Jerusalem with her children grew out of date, and the new Jerusalem into
request, the mother of the sons of the gospel-day. Wherefore, no more at
old Jerusalem, nor at the mountain of Samaria, will God be worshipped
above other places; for, behold, he is, by his own Son, declared and
preached a Spirit, and that he will be known as such, and worshipped in
the spirit and in the truth. He will now come nearer than of old time,
and he will write his law in the heart, and put his fear and spirit in
the inward parts, according to his promise. Then signs, types, and
shadows flew away, the day having discovered their insufficiency in not
reaching to the inside of the cup, to the cleansing of the conscience;
and all elementary services expired in and by him, that is the substance
of all.

And to this great and blessed end of the dispensation of the Son of God,
did the apostles testify, whom he had chosen and anointed by his spirit,
to turn the Jews from their prejudice and superstition, and the Gentiles
from their vanity and idolatry, to Christ's light and spirit that shined
in them; that they might be quickened from the sins and trespasses in
which they were dead, to serve the living God, in the newness of the
spirit of life, and walk as children of the light, and of the day, even
the day of holiness: for such put on Christ, the light of the world, and
make no more provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. So
that the light, spirit, and grace, that come by Christ, and appear in
man, were that divine principle the apostles ministered from, and turned
people's minds unto, and in which they gathered and built up the church
of Christ in their day. For which cause they advise them not to quench
the spirit, but to wait for the spirit, and speak by the spirit, and pray
by the spirit, and walk in the spirit too, as that which approved them
the truly begotten children of God, born not of flesh and blood, or of
the will of man, but of the will of God; by doing his will, and denying
their own; by drinking of Christ's cup, and being baptized with his
baptism of self-denial; the way and path that all the heirs of life have
ever trod to blessedness.

But alas! even in the apostles' days, those bright stars of the first
magnitude of the gospel light, some clouds, foretelling an eclipse of
this primitive glory, began to appear; and several of them gave early
caution of it to the