22. So foolish was I. He, though a saint of God,
had acted as if he had been one of the fools whom God abhors. The wisest people
have enough folly in them to ruin them unless grace prevents. And ignorant.
He had acted as if he knew nothing, had babbled like an idiot. I was as a beast before thee. Even in God’s presence he had been brutish, and worse
than a beast. He had judged happiness by this mortal life, by outward
appearances, and by fleshly enjoyments. Thus he had, for the time, renounced
the dignity of an immortal spirit. It was but an evidence of his true wisdom
that he was so deeply conscious of his own folly. We see how bitterly good men
bewail mental wanderings; they make no excuses for themselves.
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