Everything That Is Done In This World

A Christian Is Free And Independent In Every Respect, A Bond Servant To None. A Christian Is A Dutiful Servant In Every Respect, Owing A Duty To Everyone.

Does It Follow From: 'turn Ye' That Therefore You Can Turn? Does It Follow From "'love The Lord Thy God With All Thy Heart' (deut 6.5) That Therefore You Can Love With All Your Heart? What Do Arguments Of This Kind Prove, But The 'free-will' Does Not Need The Grace Of God, But Can Do All Things By Its Own Power....but It Does Not Follow From This That Man Is Converted By His Own Power, Nor Do The Words Say So; They Simply Say: "if Thou Wilt Turn,telling Man What He Should Do. When He Knows It, And Sees That He Cannot Do It, He Will Ask Whence He May Find Ability To Do It..." 164

Dearest Jesus, Holy Child, Make Thee A Bed, Soft, Undefiled, Within My Heart, That It May Be A Quiet Chamber Kept For Thee.

Oh, What Thoughts Man Might Have Had About The Fact That God Is In All Creatures, And So Might Have Reflected On The Power And The Wisdom Of God In Even The Smallest Flowers!

It Hath Been Said, That There Is Of Nothing So Much In Hell As Of Self-will. The Which Is True, For There Is Nothing Else There Than Self-will, And If There Were No Self-will, There Would Be No Devil And No Hell. When It Is Said That Lucifer Fell From Heaven, And Turned Away From God And The Like, It Meaneth Nothing Else Than That He Would Have His Own Will, And Would Not Be At One With The Eternal Will. So Was It Likewise With Adam In Paradise. And When We Say Self-will, We Mean, To Will Otherwise Than As The One And Eternal Will Of God Willeth.