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| It is More Necessary to Be Able to Detect the Wiles of Satan When He Transforms Himself into an Angel of Light.
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Chapter 60.—It is More
Necessary to Be Able to Detect the Wiles of Satan When He
Transforms Himself into an Angel of Light.
It is more necessary to use all our
powers of discrimination and judgment when Satan transforms himself
into an angel of light,1202
lest by his wiles he should lead
us astray into hurtful courses. For, while he only deceives the
bodily senses, and does not pervert the mind from that true and
sound judgment which enables a man to lead a life of faith, there
is no danger to religion; or if, feigning himself to be good, he
does or says the things that befit good angels, and we believe him
to be good, the error is not one that is hurtful or dangerous to
Christian faith. But when, through these means, which are alien to
his nature, he goes on to lead us into courses of his own, then
great watchfulness is necessary to detect, and refuse to follow,
him. But how many men are fit to evade all his deadly wiles, unless
God restrains and watches over them? The very difficulty of the
matter, however, is useful in this respect, that it prevents men
from trusting in themselves or in one another, and leads all to
place their confidence in God alone. And certainly no pious man can
doubt that this is most expedient for us.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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