Saint Augustine his enchiridion to Laurence, or, The chiefe and principall heads of all Christian religion a most profitable booke to all those which desire to haue a most compendious briefe of Augustines doctrine, out of Augustine himselfe, when he was old, being repurged, by the old manuscript, of many faults and vnusuall wordes, wherewith it formerly flowed.

CHAP. 60.

Wee are chiefly to take heede, least Satan deceiue vs, who putteth on the similitude of an Angell of light.

VVE haue more neede, to iudge and discern when Satan doth transforme himselfe into an An∣gell of light: least, by deceiuing vs, hee seduce vs to some perni∣cious errors. For, when hee de∣ceiueth the bodily senses, and doth not peruert the minde in matter of truth, and veritie, thē is there no daunger for matter of religion. Or when, in the coū∣terfeit shew of goodnesse, hee doth, or speaketh those thinges, which are correspondent with

good Angels, although in this case hee is beleeued to be good: yet is this errour nothing perni∣cious to Christian faith. But, when by these shewes of good borrowed from others, hee be∣ginneth to drawe vs to those e∣uills, which are his owne; then, and in such case to descry him, and not to follow him, is a mat∣ter greatly, and needfully, to bee looked vnto. But, how is euery man apt of himselfe, to eschue all his deadly eleceipts, except God be his guide, & protectour? The difficultie whereof is profi∣table to this ende, lest any man presume too much of himselfe, or one man depend too much vpon another; but that euerie one should repose his hope and helpe in God. Which to do, none of the godly, certainely, make any doubt, but that it is our better course by much.