It remains that we commend you to God, and to the Spirit of His grace, which is able to build further than we can ask or think. He removes the scales from our eyes, the veil from our hearts, opening our wits [minds] that we may understand His word, enlarging our hearts; yea, correcting our affections, that we may love it to the end.
You are brought unto fountains of living water which you digged not; do not cast earth into them with the Philistines (Gen 26:15), neither prefer broken pits before them with the wicked Jews (Jer 2:13).
Others have labored, and you may enter into their labors. O receive not so great things in vain, O despise not so great salvation! Be not like swine to tread under foot so precious things, neither yet like dogs to tear and abuse holy things (Matt 7:6). Say not to our Savior with the Gergesites, “Depart out of our coasts” (Matt 8:34; Mark 5:17); neither yet with Esau sell your birthright for a mess of pottage (Heb 12:16).
If light be come into the world, love not darkness more than light; iffood, ifclothing be offered, go not naked, starve not yourselves.
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One