Oliver.
DELUSIONS.
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.—Isaiah, lxvi. 4.
God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.—II. Thessalonians, ii. 11.
Who therefore seeks in these
True wisdom, finds her not, or by delusion.
Milton.
Dreams and delusions play
With man: he thinks not of his mortal fate: