A Key (Penn)/POSTSCRIPT

by William Penn

POSTSCRIPT

Hear, and be entreated for your soul's sake! O that ye knew God your Creator to be also your Redeemer. Who does as certainly visit you by the Spirit of the second Adam as ever He created you in the nature of the first: that as in one you fell, in the other you may arise, and become a chosen people to God. "This is my beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased, hear ye Him," said God the Father. And what says Christ the Son? "Learn of me. for I am meek and lowly of heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls." For out of Christ we cannot have peace. You must take up your cross daily and follow Him, or ye cannot be His disciples, His followers, His people, His friends: those in whom He is well pleased. Whose doctrine is the living teaching of His Spirit in your own hearts, and whose religion is not opinion, but experience, life from death; in short, holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. Be strict and true in the search. If your mind be set on heavenly things, well will it be with you forever: to live then will be Christ, and to die eternal gain. For blessed is that people whose God is the Lord.