obedience! And should we, at any time, experience a feeling of painful regret at the idea, that we are not able, in an instant, to make all good voluntary, and all evil involuntary, may we nevertheless derive consolation from the persuasion, so constantly pressed upon us in the gospel, that there exists in own free will an omnipotent power from the FATHER OF OUR BEING, to which, if we are faithful, “all things are possible;” and that, consequently, involuntary evil affords no just ground of complaint, since, sooner or later, the Scripture must be fulfilled, where it is written, “Be it unto thee even as thou wilt,” [Matt. xv. 28.].
In the devout prayer, that both you, and I, and all mankind, may thus be made sensible, that in the invaluable and almighty faculty of our free will we possess a remedy for all our disorders, because a power, by degrees, to make all good voluntary, and all evil involuntary, I remain,
Dear Sir,
