Third Note. Third: The first scruple --
of the first note -- is much to be abhorred,
because it is all error; but the second -- of
the second note -- for some space of time is
of no little profit to the soul which is giving
itself to spiritual exercises; ¹ rather in great
manner it purifies and cleanses such a soul,
separating it much from all appearance of sin:
according to that saying of Gregory: "It be-
longs to good minds to see a fault where there
is no fault."

Fourth Note. The fourth: The enemy
looks much if a soul is gross or delicate, and if
it is delicate, he tries to make it more delicate
in the extreme, to disturb and embarrass it
more. For instance, if he sees that a soul does
not consent to either mortal sin or venial or any
appearance of deliberate sin, then the enemy,
when he cannot make it fall into a thing that
appears sin, aims at making it make out sin
where there is not sin, as in a word or very
small thought.

If the soul is gross, the enemy tries to make
it more gross; for instance, if before it made
no account of venial sins, he will try to have it
make little account of mortal sins, and if be-
fore it made some account, he will try to have
it now make much less or none.

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