The world thinks that Christ's kingdom is a carnal, worldly, bodily, temporal kingdom; therefore it also invents a bodily, external, worldly worship.
2 A true Christian is one who thinks of himself as Christ thought of himself, as St. Paul said to the Philippians Cap. 2, 5-8: "Let every man be of the same mind as Jesus Christ was, who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider it a robbery to be like God, but put himself forward, and took the form of a servant, and was made like another man, and was found in his ways like a man, and humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
*) Cf. Erl. A. 64, 260 f. D. Red.
3. the sinners, the weak, the ignorant are to be received and carried, as the whole 14th chapter teaches to the Romans, where you see how the weak believers are not to be vexed.
(4) The Scriptures testify that the good angels minister only to the elect; as the Lord says, "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones: for I say unto you, that their angels which are in heaven do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven," Matt. 4:6; and in the 91st Psalm, v. 11, David says, "He hath commanded his angels concerning thee, that they should keep thee in all thy ways." The Epistle to the Hebrews Cap. 1, 14. also speaks of this: "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for the sake of those who are to inherit blessedness?"