37. I now proceed to shew in a more general way the blameable nature of the Doctor’s discourse. The whole Christian world from the time of our Saviour to this day, has been praying, _Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven._ Sacraments, divine worship, and the order of the clergy, are appointed as ministerial helps for this end, to raise, set up, and establish this kingdom of God on earth. The fall of a man brought forth the kingdom of this world; sin in all shapes is nothing else but the will of man, following the workings of a nature _broken off_ from its dependency upon, and union with the divine will. All the evil and misery in the creation arises _solely_ from this one cause. There is not the smallest degree of pain or punishment either within us, or without us, but is owing to this, viz. that man stands out of his place, is not _in_, and _under_, and _united_ to God as he should be, as the nature of things requires. God created every thing to partake of his _own nature_, to have some share of his _own life_, and happiness. Nothing can be good or evil, happy or unhappy, but as it does or does not stand in the same _divine life_ in which it was created, receiving in God, and from God, all that good that it is capable of, and so co-operating with, and under him, according to the nature of its powers and perfections. As soon as it turns to itself, and would as it were have a sound of its _own_, it breaks off from the _divine harmony_, and falls into the misery of its own _discord_; and all its workings then are only so many sorts of torments. The redemption of mankind can then only be effected, the harmony of the creation can only then be restored when the will of God is the will of every creature. For this reason our blessed Lord having taken upon him a created nature, so continually declares against the doing any thing of himself, and always appeals to the will of God, as the only motive and end of every thing he did, saying, that it was his meat and drink, to do the will of him that had sent him.