13. Light in the mind, what.
Light, true light, in the mind is, or can be, nothing else but the evidence of the truth of
any proposition; and if it be not a self-evident proposition, all the light it has, or can have, is from the clearness
and validity of those proofs upon which it is received. To talk of any other light in the understanding is to put
ourselves in the dark, or in the power of the Prince of Darkness, and, by our own consent, to give ourselves up to
delusion to believe a lie. For, if strength of persuasion be the light which must guide us; I ask how shall any one
distinguish between the delusions of Satan, and the inspirations of the Holy Ghost? He can transform himself into
an angel of light. And they who are led by this Son of the Morning are as fully satisfied of the illumination, i.e.,
are as strongly persuaded that they are enlightened by the Spirit of God as any one who is so: they acquiesce and
rejoice in it, are actuated by it: and nobody can be more sure, nor more in the right (if their own belief may be
judge) than they.
