Autobiography of Madame Guyon, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Continued. CHAPTER XI. After Father La Combe had returned fromE ome much praised for his doctrine, he performed the duties of preaching and confessing as usual, and as I had for myself a permission from theB ishop of Geneva to confess to him, I made use of him. He at once told me I should return, as I have said. I asked him the reason. It is, he said, because I believe God will do nothing by you here, and my lights are deceptive. What made him speak thus was that while at Loretto, at devotion in the chapel of the Holy Virgin, he was suddenly withdrawn from the way of illumination and put into the way of simple faith. Now, as this state causes a failure of all distinct light, the soul which finds herself plunged in it finds herself in a trouble so much the greater as her state had been more full of lights. It is this which makes her think all the lights on which she previously supported herself to be nothing but deceptions. This is true in one sense, and not in another, since the lights are always good and true lights when they come from God; but it is that in resting on them wo VOL. II.
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