"Now away with those persons who dare write God’s name upon their faults!"
Institutes of the Christian Religion II, i, 10Institutes of the Christian Religion, Volumes 1 & 2
bNow away with those persons who dare write God’s name upon their faults, because we declare that men are vicious by nature!19 They perversely search out God’s handiwork in their own pollution, when they ought rather to have sought it in that unimpaired and uncorrupted nature of Adam. Our destruction, therefore, comes from the guilt of our flesh, not from God, inasmuch as we have perished solely because we have degenerated from our original condition.
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