latter. In the will is unfolded that freedom of action which chooses the good and refuses the evil. In the spiritual being that exercises reason and will resides the power to act, which presupposes both these faculties,—the reason as informing the will, and the will as directing the power. This is that form of God in which he has created man, and condescends to communicate with him. And let them rule. The relation of man to the creature is now stated. It is that of sovereignty. Those capacities of
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