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which he did not receive. Such freedom as his 

 Will possesses has been given to him, and given 

 him, too, as we have dimly seen, by the employ- 

 ment and by the device of means. It is a power 

 belonging to his structure, and derived from' Him 

 by whom that structure has been devised. 



" Our Wills are ours, we know not how." 



The power which in health we possess of pre- 

 ferring one motive to all others, whilst yet the 

 influence of those others may be strongly felt, is a 

 power which, like every other, must have its own 

 " antecedent " — that is to say, its own cause, 

 and its own purpose. But these are to be found 

 in the Adjustment from which the power arises, — 

 in the Mind by which that adjustment has been 

 contrived, and in the Purposes which it reveals. 

 The freedom of Man's Will is not more myste- 

 rious when it is exerted in directing the Mind to 

 one motive, and averting it from another, than 

 when it is exerted in turning the Body to the right 

 hand rather than to the left. 



The difficulty of reconciling in one clear Order 

 of Thought, the idea of the Freedom of our own 



