ll have
the comfort, kernel, and marrow of the Christian religion, thus you must
come to learn and obtain it.

Now, my friends, by what you have read, you may perceive that God has
visited a poor people among you, with this saving knowledge and
testimony, whom he has upheld and increased to this day, notwithstanding
the fierce opposition they have met withal. Despise not the meanness of
this appearance: it was, and yet is, we know, a day of small things and
of small account with too many; and many hard and ill names are given to
it; but it is of God, it came from him, because it leads to him. This we
know, but we cannot make another to know it, unless he will take the same
way to know it that we took. The world talks of God, but what do they
do? They pray for power, but reject the principle in which it is. If
you would know God, and worship and serve God as you should do, you must
come to the means he has ordained and given for that purpose. Some seek
it in books, some in learned men; but what they look for is in
themselves, (though not of themselves,) but they overlook it. The voice
is too still, the seed too small, and the light shineth in darkness; they
are abroad, and so cannot divide the spoil: but the woman that lost her
silver, found it at home, after she had lighted her candle, and swept her
house. Do you so too, and you shall find what Pilate wanted to know,
viz. Truth. Truth in the inward parts, so valuable in the sight of God.

The light of Christ within, who is the light of the world, and so a light
to you, that tells you the truth of your condition, leads all, that take
heed unto it, out of darkness into God's marvellous light. For light
grows upon the obedient; it is sown for the righteous, and their way is a
shining light, that shines forth more and more to the perfect day.

Wherefore, O friends, turn in, turn in, I beseech you: where is the
poison, there is the antidote. There you want Christ, and there you must
find him; and blessed be God, there you may find him. Seek and you shall
find, I testify for God. But then you must seek aright, with your whole
heart, as men that seek for their lives, yea for their eternal lives:
diligently, humbly, patiently, as those that can taste no pleasure,
comfort, or satisfaction in any thing else, unless you find him whom your
souls want to know and love above all. O it is a travail, a spiritual
travail! let the carnal, profane world, think and say as it