voluntary is in connection with man’s will principle, or ruling love, and that this will principle, or ruling love, is the grand object to which religion applies herself, and which she is eager to secure as her own property and possession, how are man’s eyes immediately opened to discern the one thing needful for his sanctity and bliss! In this case, therefore, he no longer rests his salvation on the spider’s web of mere speculative opinions; and still less on the lifeless images of ceremonial observances; but he asks himself continually the serious questions—what is it that I most love? What is it that I have made my ruling voluntary principle? Am I in the constant habit, which the Scriptures recommend, and which every true Christian practises, of making involuntary good voluntary, and of also making voluntary evil involuntary? Do I keep in constant recollection, that out of the infinite storehouse of the DIVINE MERCY and LOVE I have only as yet made a small portion voluntary, and that therefore I ought to be providing momentary additions to this voluntary good? Do I also recollect, that out of the tremendous fund of infernal evil, I have not as yet made the whole involuntary; and that, consequently, I am bound to be perpetually on the watch to add to the quantity of involuntary evil already made?—Such are the questions which the sincere Christian is ever
