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FOR I remember, that when my youthful age suggested to me to cling to a
partner, thoughts of this sort often mingled with our moral training and
the Holy Scriptures, so that we fancied that nothing could be truer or more
reasonable: but when we came together and began to produce our ideas, in
the general discussion which was held, some things were first noted by the
others as false and dangerous, and then presently were condemned and
pronounced by common consent to be injurious; though before they had seemed
to shine as if with a light infused by the devil, so that they would easily
have caused discord, had not the charge of the Elders, observed like some
divine oracle, restrained us from all strife, that charge; namely, whereby
it was ordered by them almost with the force of a law, that neither of us
should trust to his own judgments more than his brother's, if he wanted
never to be deceived by the craft of the devil.
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