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27. Letter.
To I. I.
DEARE and loving Friend; whom I desire to own and to be one with & in the fellow∣ship of the Father, and the Son, in one eternall invisible and ever-ruling Spirit, in and with which Spirit we are to walk, live & abide in, after we are made one with it, which is and must bee an inward, true and invisible walk∣ing, and according to an inward, true and in∣visible rule, and not after an outward and worldly manner, as the worldlings doe; For my Kingdome is not of this world, saith Christ, my Kingdome is not of observation, and world∣ly rudiments, for it is within you that consists not in any outward rule or practise, all the true rules and directions of the Spirit is within, it is visible, the truth of all things is within, the outward is not the truth, but an Image of the truth, therefore to walke in outward forms, or ordinances, is but to walke in an Image and