Vol. 2

—430 ST. LUKE.we imagine it is Christ who is so. Vouchsafe, OJesus, often to repeat this wholesome reproof at thebottom of my heart; but do it in such a manner asmay fill me with a holy dread, and an admiration offaith, at the sight of thy conduct towards thy elect,and towards thy church. He who has made her triumphover so many persecutors, is always with herto defend her. Even creatures the most insensibleare subject to him. The greater proportion and dependencythere is betwixt the sovereign and the createdreason, betwixt the unchangeable and all-powerfulwill, and the weak and changeable will of man,the more ought we to believe that God can act uponthis as sovereign Lord, and as God, without doingviolence to its nature, or injuring its liberty, but, onthe contrary, healing and perfecting both, by thecommunication of hisliberty.supreme reason and his divineSect. V.The Legion of Devils cast out, Th^Swine drowned,," 26. f And they arrived at the country of theGadarenes, which is over against Galilee. 27. Andwhen he went forth to land, there met him out of thecity a certain man which had devils long time, andware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but inthe tombs."A soul possessed with the sin of uncleanness is,without comparison, a more horrid spectacle than thisto the eyes of faith. The effects of this possessionare these :— 1st, It renders the heart a slave to sinand the devil, in a more servile, shameful, grievous,and insuperable manner.2d, It strips a man of all