e shall then be thereby so
specially participant of Christ's passion that he shall forthwith
be carried up with angels into heaven. And that he is so joyful
for this that he firmly purposeth upon it, no less glad to do it
than another man would be glad to avoid it. And therefore may you
desire his good counsel to instruct you with some substantial good
advice, with which you may turn him from this error, that he be
not, under hope of God's true revelation, destroyed in body and
soul by the devil's false illusion.

If he will in this thing study and labour to instruct you, the
things that he himself shall find, of his own invention, though
they be less effectual, shall peradventure more work with him
toward his own amendment (since he shall, of likelihood, better
like them) than shall things double so substantial that were told
him by another man. If he be loth to think upon that side, and
therefore shrink from the matter, then is there no other way but
to venture to fall into the matter after the plain fashion, and
tell what you hear, and give him counsel and exhortation to the
contrary. Unless you wish to say that thus and thus hath the
matter been reasoned already between your friend and you. And
therein may you rehearse such things as should prove that the
vision which moveth him is no true revelation, but a very false
illusion.

VINCENT: Verily, uncle, I well allow that a man should, in this
thing as well as in every other in which he longeth to do another
man good, seek such a pleasant way that the party should be likely
to like his communication, or at least to take it well in worth.
And he should not enter in unto it in such a way that he whom he
would help should abhor him and be loth to hear him, and therefore
take no profit by him.

But now, uncle, if it come, by the one way or the other, to the
point where he will or shall hear me; what be the effectual means
with which I should by my counsel convert him?

ANTHONY: All those by which you may make him perceive that he is
deceived, and that his visions are no godly revelations but very
devilish illusion. And those reasons must you gather of the man,
of the matter, and of the law of God, or of some one of these.

Of the man may you gather them, if you can peradventure show him
that in such-and-such a point he is waxed worse since such
revelations have haunted him than he was before--as, in those who
are deluded, whosoever be well acquainted with them s