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| Chapter XI. How it is impossible for one who trusts to his own judgment to escape being deceived by the devil's illusions.
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Chapter XI.
How it is impossible for one who trusts to his own
judgment to escape being deceived by the devil’s illusions.
For often it has been
proved that what the Apostle says really takes place. “For Satan
himself transforms himself into an angel of light,”1977
so that he deceitfully sheds abroad a
confusing and foul obscuration of the thoughts instead of the true
light of knowledge. And unless these thoughts are received in a humble
and gentle heart, and kept for the consideration of some more
experienced brother or approved Elder, and when thoroughly sifted by
their judgment, either rejected or admitted by us, we shall be sure to
venerate in our thoughts an angel of darkness instead of an angel of
light, and be smitten with a grievous destruction: an injury which it
is impossible for any one to avoid who trusts in his own judgment,
unless he becomes a lover and follower of true humility and with all
contrition of heart fulfils what the Apostle chiefly prays for:
“If then there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of
love, if any bowels of compassion, fulfil ye my joy, that you be of one
mind, having the same love, being of one accord, doing nothing by
contention, neither by vainglory; but in humility each esteeming others
better than themselves;” and this: “in honour preferring
one another,”1978
that each may
think more of the knowledge and holiness of his partner, and hold that
the better part of true discretion is to be found in the judgment of
another rather than in his own.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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