spirited words

“This luminous and excellent Power
operates upon the humble and thankful Acceptor,
so as to open an Understanding of what he reads,
both in Scripture and other experimental Writings,
often giving him to feel that concerning which he reads,
and rendering it of improving Effect to him.
But he who rejects the Means, can never attain the End.”

~ Joseph Phipps [Quaker],
The Original and Present State of Man, Briefly Considered... (p.51)