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“We conclude then that the sacraments are truly called witnesses of God’s grace, like seals of His favor toward us, marking it in us and therefore comforting and nourishing, confirming and increasing our faith”

- Calvin on The Sacraments

For as soon as we have conceived some little taste of divinity by contemplation of the world, we abandon the true God and set up dreams and imaginary things from our own brains in place of Him, and transfer to them Gods righteousness, wisdom, goodness, and power. Moreover we so obscure His daily works, or we overturn them by misjudging them, that the praise and grace which is owed to Him.