They told him that they were poor
pilgrims going to Zion, but were led out of their way by a black man
clothed in white, who bid us, said they, follow him, for he was
going thither too. Then said he with the whip, "It is Flatterer, a
false apostle that hath transformed himself into an angel of light."
So he rent the net, and let the men out.
Then said he to them, "Follow me, that I may set you in your way
again." So he led them back to the way which they had left to follow
the flatterer. Then he asked them, saying, "Where did you lie the
last night?" They said, "With the shepherds upon the delectable
mountains." He asked them then, if they had not a note of direction
for the way. They answered, "Yes." "But did you not," said he, "when
you were at a stand, pluck out and read your note?" They answered,
"No." He asked them, "Why?" They said they forgot. He asked,
moreover, if the shepherds did not bid them beware of the flatterer.
They answered, "Yes; but we did not imagine," said they," that this
fine-spoken man had been he." Rom. 16:17, 18.
Then I saw in my dream that he commanded them to lie down, Deut.
29:2; which when they did, he chastised them sore, to teach them the
good way wherein they should walk, 2 Chron. 6:26, 27; and as he
chastised them he said, "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be
zealous therefore and repent.
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