CHAPTER VI--MY LORD WILLBEWILL.
-- 'to will is present with me.'-- _Paul_ There is a large and a learned literature on the subject of the will.
There is a philosophical and a theological, and there is a religious and an experimental literature on the will.

Jonathan Edwards's well-known work stands out conspicuously at the head of the philosophical and theological literature on the will, while our own Thomas Boston's _Fourfold State_ is a very able and impressive treatise on the more practical and experimental side of the same subject.

The Westminster Confession of Faith devotes one of its very best chapters to the teaching of the word of God on the will of man, and the Shorter Catechism touches on the same subject in Effectual Calling.

Outstanding philosophical and theological schools have been formed around the will, and both able and learned and earnest men have taken opposite sides on the subject of the will under the party names of Necessitarians and Libertarians.

This is not the time, nor am I the man, to discuss such abstruse subjects; but those students who wish to master this great matter of the will, so far as it can be mastered in books, are recommended to begin with Dr.William Cunningham's works, and then to go on from them to a treatise that will reward all their talent and all their enterprise, Jonathan Edwards's perfect masterpiece.
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