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OF THE MANY WILLS

the Infinite God has for you? We cannot, on the one hand, conceive how much value so great a Lord sets on us poor creatures, in our baseness and misery; and, on the other, how much we are indebted to His High Majesty, Who has done so many and so great things for us.

For if earthly masters, when they are honoured even by men of poor and lowly condition, feel bound to honour them in return, how should our vileness behave itself towards the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe, by Whom we are so dearly prized and loved!

And, in addition to what has been already mentioned, keep ever a lively remembrance, that the Divine Majesty is infinitely worthy to be honoured and served simply for Himself, and for His own good pleasure.


CHAPTER XII.

Of the many Wills which are in Man, and of the Warfare between them.

ALTHOUGH in this spiritual combat man has two wills,—the will of the mind, which we call the reasonable and superior will; and the will of the senses, which we call the sensual and inferior will, and which sometimes bears the names of appetite, flesh, sense, and passion: yet, as it is through the reason we are men, we can-