3.62 The Living Temple. Part II. (z.) The forcing of a Man's Will, implies a Contradiction ha the Terms ; for we have no other Notion offorce, than the making one do a thing again.h his Will : But it is impoflible a Man fhould will, or be willing, againh his Will. He that bath made a Man's Soul, and all its powers, well-enough knows how to govern him without Vi- olence, and by (tho' never fo fudden) an immif ion of his Light and Grace, dreamily to change a Man's Will; with- out forcing it And altobeeaufe, fT (2 )A NoMan, that path the prefent ufe of his own. Faculties, will think they can be injur'd by Divine Light and Grace _5 or that they hurt the Nature of Man, which they manifeftly tend to :Vlore, improve, and perfect. 'Y t' noMan is to expert, that becaufe the Blefed God vouchfafes to make Ionic rarer Intlances of dealing by way offadden furprize with the Spirits of letí,: that this fhouid be his ordinary Method ; but, more ufually, to awaken them i t° fome Confideration of that forlorn Stare, while they are &Ctitute of the Divine Pretence, and their Souls the
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