CHAPTER IX.

OF PERFECT CONVERSION, WHICH IS AN EFFECT OF THIS METHOD OF PRAYER — TWO OF ITS AIDS, THE ATTRAC-TION OF GOD, AND THE CENTRAL INCLINATION OF THE SOUL.

" npURN ye unto Him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted" (Isa. xxxi. 6). Conversion is nothing else but a turning from the creature to God. Conversion is not perfect, though it is necessary for salvation, when it is merely a turning from sin to grace. To be complete, it must be a turning from without to within.

The soul, being turned in the direction of God, has a great facility for remaining converted to Him. The longer it is converted, the nearer it approaches to God, and attaches itself to Him ; and the nearer it approaches to God, the more it becomes neces-sarily drawn from the creature, which is opposed to God.