"As a Stone in a Wall, fastened with Mortar, compressed by surrounding Stones, and involved in a Million of other Attractions, cannot fall to the Earth, nor sensibly exert its natural Gravity, no, not so much as to discover there is such a Principle in it; just so, the intelligent Soul, in this her lapsed Estate, being drowned in Sense, chained and fettered by Ignorance and Perverseness, drawn and hurried away by the Devil, the World and the Flesh, is disabled from exerting this inherent and innate Principle of Re-union, and wants sufficient Light on the Understanding, and a right Turn of the Will, to be put in a Capacity of exercising it."
An Essay of Health and Long Life
Cheyne, George. <u>An Essay of Health and Long Life</u> (London: George Strahan, 1724). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5wIAAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;