your mind’s head, and will accordingly compel all spiritual and heavenly loves to submit themselves as subordinate members, by converting some into arms and hands, and others into legs and feet; and possibly by casting' out some even under the soles of its feet, until your whole mind be reduced to a mere infernal form of disorder, deformity, and mischief.
Need I again inform you, that, as the body consists of a variety of organs, members, &c. and cannot possibly be a body without that variety, even so it is in regard to the mind; and therefore you are to conclude, that in the regeneration, which is nothing else but the restoration of the mind and life to the order of Heaven, no single grace or virtue will suffice for the purpose, but a combination of graces and virtues will be requisite, some of one quality and degree, and some of another, but all capable of being so combined as to make a unit. It is not sufficient, therefore, that you cultivate in yourself the spirit of love and charity alone, nor yet the spirit of wisdom and faith alone, and least of all the exercise of works alone, but all the three are to be so united, as to make one angelic mind; in like manner as the head, the trunk, with the arms and legs, make one human body. For the same reason it will be necessary, as the Apostle expresseth it, to “add to your faith virtue; and to virtue
