And therefore are there two wills, for that
one of them is not entire: and what the one lacketh, the other hath.
Let them perish from Thy presence, O God, as perish vain talkers and
seducers of the soul: who observing that in deliberating there were
two wills, affirm that there are two minds in us of two kinds, one
good, the other evil. Themselves are truly evil, when they hold
these evil things; and themselves shall become good when they hold the
truth and assent unto the truth, that Thy Apostle may say to them,
Ye were sometimes darkness, but now light in the Lord. But they,
wishing to be light, not in the Lord, but in themselves, imagining the
nature of the soul to be that which God is, are made more gross
darkness through a dreadful arrogancy; for that they went back farther
from Thee, the true Light that enlightened every man that cometh
into the world. Take heed what you say, and blush for shame: draw near
unto Him and be enlightened, and your faces shall not be ashamed.
Myself when I was deliberating upon serving the Lord my God now, as
I had long purposed, it was I who willed, I who nilled, I, I myself.
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