Verse 2. And it is perceived by means of Divine truth that this principle is not to be feared; for the Lord will reduce it, and all the arguments and persuasions by which it is supported, and all the region of the mind heretofore occupied by it under the power of the regenerate will; and the soul will be enabled to do the same with them as was done in former temptations to self-love, the chief of the evils of the soul which dwelt hereditarily in the natural mind.