SCHOLIUM TO ANSWER II.

Nevertheless, the factor actual truth having been assured to us by revelation, it is not impossible, by stedfast meditation on the idea and supernatural character of a personal will, for a mind spiritually disciplined to satisfy itself, that the redemptive act supposes (and that our redemption is even negatively conceivable only on the supposition of) an agent who can at once act on the will 261 as an exciting cause, quasi ab extra; and in the will, as the condition of its potential, and the ground of its actual, being.