" Do you here behold the enemy to the order of God ! how he vaunts, spirit ! spirit! spirit ! though he pulls down both bridges, steps, ways, and every thing else by which the spirit is to come to you, viz. the external order of God, in the visible baptism, sign, and verbal word of God, and will teach you, not how the spirit is to come to you, but how you are to come to the spirit. Thus you are to learn to fly on the clouds, and ride on the wind ; and yet do not say, how or when, where or what ; but you must experience it the same as they." Thus far Luther.

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