peace, being spiritual and delicate, effects a work that is quiet and delicate, pacific and utterly alien to the former delights, which were most palpable and sensible. This is that peace of which the Psalmist spoke when he said, ‘God will speak in me, for He will speak peace unto His people.’* This brings us to the third sign. The third sign we have for ascertaining whether this aridity be the purgation of sense, is an inability to meditate and make reflections, and to excite the imagination, as