Even so, "an inheritance incorruptible, immortal, and that fadeth not away," is secured, in CHRIST JESUS, to every individual of our fallen race: "All things are ours," by virtue of that Heavenly nature, which we inherit from JESUS CHRIST the second Adam. Upon the birth, growth, and maturity of this Heavenly Nature, depends our possession of this Eternal Inheritance; and this birth, growth, and maturity again depend upon the co-operation of our wills, which are eternally and essentially free, with the Divine Will. What I have here asserted, is fully consonant to the very letter of Scripture: "GOD is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." But if GOD is willing to save all, Why are not all saved? Why do not all men come immediately to repentance?--The reason is obvious: it depends not, as some vainly assert, upon a Secret Will of GOD, distinct from his Revealed Will. Such an idea of the GOD OF TRUTH AND LOVE, is unscriptural, and even blasphemous--No, it depends wholly upon the co-operation of our wills, with the unchangeable Will of GOD. The promise is made to all; the inheritance is secured to all; but the possession and enjoyment can never come, till the will of the creature is united to the will of the Creator; till from a deep conviction of his own nothingness by nature, he freely opens his heart to the influences of Grace--and then he finds, by a blessed experience, that, "having nothing, he possesseth all things." When a minister of CHRIST, therefore, addresses himself to a sinner, insensible of his fallen condition, and strongly attached to that earthly life, which he inherits from fallen Adam, he cannot use a more effectual argument, than that which the Apostle in my text presses upon the divided and contentious Corinthians--For so far as these jealousies and disputes prevailed among them, they were doubtless under the evil influences of the same corrupt nature, to which the unregenerate are in bondage.