It is an evil which prevails everywhere among mankind, that every one sets himself above others …and especially that those who seem in anything to excel cannot well endure their inferiors to be on an equality with themselves. And then there is so much [a gloomy […]
Such is the wicked ambition which belongs to our nature, that when the question relates to the origin of our salvation, we quickly form diabolical imaginations about our own merits. Accordingly, we imagine that God is reconciled to us, because He has reckoned us worthy that […]