Dear Friends, prize your heavenly calling [Heb 3:1], by which ye are called into holiness and righteousness, without which no one shall see the Lord [Heb 12:14]. And let your conversation be, as becometh the gospel [Phil 1:27], the holy power of God [16" class="scriptRef">Rom 1:16], which is the gospel of Christ, the holy one, who suffered by the unholy ones. And keep in the lowly mind, and the humility of Christ, that the fruits of your good conversation, and translation [Col 1:13], and <44> regeneration in your lives may appear, as a people redeemed from the pleasures of the flesh, and the spirit of the world [1 Cor 2:12], and the beggarly [Gal 4:9] lusts; and that ye may obtain the promise of the eternal God, and the power of the truth, through the word in the heart [Deut 30:14], the hidden man [1 Pet 3:4], that ye may obtain victory over that which wars against your souls [1 Pet 2:11]; through which ye may be arrayed and adorned, and by that ye may be preserved and kept from that which is not of the Father, (the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life [1 Jn 2:16],) in the simplicity and innocency of Christ Jesus, (over all the subtilty [2 Cor 11:3] and feigned deceit,) through which ye may esteem nothing in comparison of that which is of God [Rom 1:19], and him above all, through Christ the light, the truth, the power of God manifested in you. And keep out of all false liberties [2 Pet 2:19], and that which would lead you out of the fear of God; and in that ye will be preserved in the sense of the power and the truth of God in your own hearts. In that every one watch, through which knowledge and virtue is ministered unto you, and peace from the God of virtue and peace. And keep out of all that which tends to strife, and whisperings, and backbitings, and tattlings, which draws from the witness, watch, and fear of God within, which leavens into the fleshly lusts and nature [1 Cor 5:8]; and then that judges, and yet is in the same thing for which he judges others; which nature and judgment, are for judgment and condemnation [Mat 7:1-3]. So be wise, and keep your first love; break not wedlock with the Lord Jesus Christ; keep your first habitation [Jude 1:6], keep your garments clean, for such as so do, they are blessed; that ye may shine as lights to the world [Mat 5:14,16], and be examples in virtue, righteousness, and holiness, walking in the truth in all patience and quietness, looking at the Lord, your strength, and Christ Jesus, the conqueror, and beyond all the hills and mountains; that ye may be a good savour to the Lord [2 Cor 2:15], having salt in your selves [Mark 9:50]. Let your lamps be burning, and your lights shining, and then ye will see over all the unsavouriness that is in Adam's family in the fall, who live in Christ, the power of God [1 Cor 1:24], that never fell [1 Pet 2:22], and keep marriage with him the Holy One, the Just One [Acts 314], the light, the truth, and power of God, who makes an end of all unholiness [Dan 9:24?]. And so, walk in the righteousness, that your feet may be kept in the way of peace [Luke 1:79]. And keep your tongues, and hands, and bodies, and lips, and minds, and words out of all that, which would defile and corrupt you, and bring you under the indignation and wrath of God, and his hand to be turned against you. So, keep in the fear of God, and keep in his truth which ye at first received, for truth never changes [Heb 13:8?]. And walk in the spirit, and then the lusts of the flesh will not be fulfilled [Gal 5:16], and then strife is kept out, that which would be high and get up, through which come strife and wars [James 4:1]. So keep your fellowship in the spirit, in which is the unity and bond of peace [Eph 4:3], and the fruits of the <45> spirit will appear, righteousness, holiness, goodness, peace, soberness and gentleness, [Gal 5:22f] chastity and virtue, through which ye may have fruit to feed the hungry, and to relieve the sick and poor. For the unfruitful walk not in the spirit, and so bear not fruit; and so the curse comes, and briars [Heb 6:8], and misery. So, eye the Lord God in all things in the spirit, who is a spirit; in that ye may distinguish his things, and the things that are of your selves, and what is of men, and what is of God, and what to keep alive, and what must die. So be obedient to the spirit, and to the good power of God, that hath quickened you; and live in it, that ye may die no more, for that gives you life. For they that are made alive, and come to die again, and to be twice dead, and then come to be plucked up by the roots [Jude 1:12]; such lie dead upon the earth, and corrupt it. So, let not the world, let not things visible draw your minds away from the Lord. Do not mind the body more than the Lord; do not forsake the Lord; but be of good faith in the truth of God, and live in it, then ye live in Christ Jesus, who is your way [John 14:6], who is your teacher, who is your prophet, who is your priest, who is the bishop of your immortal souls [1 Pet 2:25], Christ that never fell [[1 Pet 2:22], nor never changed, nor never will change [Heb 13:8]. And here ye come into the seed, the top stone, that is atop of the world set, and before the world was, who will remain when the world is gone; who was full of grace, and truth [John 1:14], and virtue, and life, by whom grace comes, that brings salvation [Tit 2:11], who is every one of your teacher in yourselves. So, know Christ the head and salvation, in which there is peace, and no condemnation; for the condemnation is upon them, that are out of the light. And so, live in unity in the light, before darkness and enmity was, in which ye have peace, and love to God, to Christ, and to one another. G. F.