Friday, April 23, 2010

Calvin's Institutes, Battles edition: pages 37-38

"Without knowledge of God there is no knowledge of self," especially spritually. "For, because all of us are inclined by nature to hypocrisy, a kind of empty image of righteousness in place of righteousness itself abundantly satisfies us." That is, without God as our straightedge, we cannot properly measure or evaluate ourselves or our holiness.

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