our letter ye are, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,

And having the same spirit of the faith, according to that which hath been written, 'I believed, therefore I did speak;' we also do believe, therefore also do we speak;

according as it hath been written, 'He who did gather much, had nothing over; and he who did gather little, had no lack.'

(according as it hath been written, 'He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,')