Chapter VI.
That those who fly from the burden of rule through
humility are then truly humble when they resist not the divine
decrees.
There are some also who fly by reason only of
their humility, lest they should be preferred to others to whom they
esteem themselves unequal. And theirs, indeed, if it be
surrounded by other virtues, is then true humility before the eyes of
God
, when it is not pertinacious in rejecting
what it is enjoined to undertake with profit. For neither is he
truly humble, who understands how the good pleasure of the Supernal
Will ought to bear sway, and yet contemns its sway. But,
submitting himself to the divine disposals, and averse from the vice of
obstinacy, if he be already prevented with gifts whereby he may profit
others also, he ought, when enjoined to undertake supreme rule, in his
heart to flee from it, but against his will to obey.