An abridgement of the Institution of Christian religion written

¹An. Such speeches are applied to our capacity, that we may the better understand how wretched and calamitous our condition is without Christ. For we can never sufficiently perceive how great Gods mercy is toward us, unless we feel our own iniquity, being stricken with fear of eternal death.

¹An. Such speeches are applied to our capacitie, that we may the better vnderstande how wretched and calamitous our condition is without Christe. For we can neuer sufficientlie perceiue howe great Gods mercie is toward vs, vnlesse we feele our own iniquitie, being stricken with feare of eternall death.

1. 1Our miserable estate without Christ.

3 As God is the chiefest righteousness, so he §2cannot love that iniquity which he seeth in us. Therefore all of us have in us that which is worthy of the hatred of god:¹ therefore in respect of corrupt nature, again of our wicked life being added thereto, we ⟨p. 127⟩are all in the displeasure of God, being in his sight §1 2guilty, and born to the damnation of hell.² But because the Lord will not destroy that in us which is his, he findeth something which of his goodness he loveth §3though we be not fully coupled to God,³