s in. So the mind is driven by
the torrents of temptation which pour in on it from every side and
cannot be free from the flow of thoughts, but we control the character
of the thoughts by the efforts of our own earnestness."--Cassian,
_Conferences_, I, 17, 18.

[12] "The power of divine grace, like that of the Adversary, is
impulsive, not compulsive, that the free power of our will may be
entirely preserved. Wherefore, for the evil things which a man does by
the influence of Satan, it is not Satan that receives the punishment,
but the man himself; forasmuch as he was not involuntarily forced into
those things, but was consenting in his own will. In the same manner
also with respect to what is good, Grace does not ascribe it to itself,
but to the man, and it therefore assigns to him glory, as the cause of
good to himself. For grace does not so constrain by compulsive force
as to render a man's will incapable of altering; but though it be
present to him, it gives way to his free and arbitrary power, that his
will may be manifested how it is disposed to good or to evil. For the
law is not applied to our nature, but to our free-will, which is able
to convert itself either to good or to evil."--Macarius, _Institutes of
Christian Perfection_, Bk. VII, chap. iii. (Penn's Trans., London,
1816.)

[13] Scupoli, _The Spiritual Combat_, chap. xiv.

[14] "I shall fulfil Thy Will if, for Thy Love, I contradict my own,
which Thou wilt not in any way constrain, but dost leave it perfectly
free that I, _by voluntarily and constantly subjecting it to Thine_,
may become dearer and more full in Thy sight."--St. Catherine of Siena,
_Dialogue on Consummated Perfection_, in Drane's History of St.
Catherine, Vol. II, p. 348.

[15] Faber, _Growth in Holiness_, chap. xvi.

[16] St. Francis de Sales, _Spiritual Letters_, cxiv.

[17] Baker, _Sancta Sophia_, pp. 284-286. See also Hilton, _The Scale
of Perfection_, Bk. 2, Sec. 1, chap. viii.

[18] Using anger as an illustration, Father Baker enters into a
detailed description of what may happen, and yet the soul be free from
sin. Perhaps there is not one of us who can read the following words
without a sense of deep gratitude and relief concerning not infrequent
experiences of our own. He says: "A person being moved to anger,
though he find an unquiet representation in the imagination, and a
violent heat and motions about the heart, as likewise an aversion in
sensitive nature aga