chaff, of which it is written, that the wind driveth it away? [Psalm i. 4.].
I cannot conclude my letter on the above important subject of spiritual digestion, absorption, and secretion, without calling to your recollection the words of the GREAT SAVIOUR respecting the light, which He, as a HEAVENLY SUN, came to dispense to a dark world, when He says, “While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light,” [John xii. 36.]. For how forcibly do these words apply to the light of that DIVINE TRUTH, with which the WORD OF GOD throughout is replenished! How exactly, too, do the three distinct characters of having the light, of believing in the light, and of becoming the children of the light, correspond with the distinct acts of receiving the DIVINE TRUTH into the memory, into the understanding, and into the life, thus with the distinct acts of spiritual digestion above described! How plain therefore is it to see, that it is possible to have THE TRUTH without believing in it, and to have and believe in it without becoming its children; and that, consequently, THE TRUTH can never be fully and effectually received by mankind, until it be fully and effectually digested, by being first deposited in the memory, which is to have it; and
