a Christian for his body's sake; that the true, real, essential,
Church is a spiritual thing, and not anything external or
outward."

"All those who make the Christian communion a material and
outward thing, like other communities, are in reality Jews, who
wait for their Messiah to establish an external kingdom at a
certain definite place, namely Jerusalem; and so sacrifice the
faith, which alone makes the kingdom of Christ a thing spiritual
or of the heart."

In this and the following notes, for brevity's sake, various
quotations are summarized and connected.

[24] "For the teachings of human experience and (Deut. xii:8)
reason are far below the divine law. The Scriptures expressly
forbid us to follow our own reason, Deut. xii: 'Ye shall not
do...every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes'; for human
reason ever strives against the law (Gen. vi:5) of God. Therefore
the attempt to establish or defend divine order with human
reason, unless that reason has previously been established and
enlightened by faith, is just as futile, as if I would throw a
light upon the sun with a lightless lantern, or rest a rock upon
a reed. For Isaiah vii makes reason subject to faith, when he
says (vii:9): 'Except ye believe, ye shall not have understanding
or reason.' He does not say, Except ye have reason, ye shall not
believe. Therefore this scribe would better not have put forth a
claim to establish the faith and the divine law by mere reason."

[25] "That the serpent lifted up by Moses, signifies Christ, is
taught by John iii. If it were not for that passage, my reasoning
might evolve many strange and weird fancies out of that type.
That Adam was a type of Christ, I learn not from myself, but from
St. Paul. That the rock in the wilderness represents Christ is
not taught by my reason, but by St. Paul. None other explains the
type but the Holy Spirit Himself. He has given the type and
wrought the fulfillment, that both type and fulfillment and the
interpretation may be God's own and not man's, and our faith he
founded not on human, but on divine words. What leads the Jews
astray but that they interpret the types as they please, without
the Scriptures? What has led so many heretics astray but the
interpretation of the types without reference to the Scriptures?"

[26] "The word Church, when it is used for such external affairs,
whereas it concerns the faith alone, is done violence to; yet
this manner of using it has spread ever