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“The Celestial Creator himself, however corrupted man may be, still keeps in view the end of his original creation.”- Calvin

“[Calvin] stood in solidarity with his congregation, using, for the most part, the inclusive language of the first-person plural pronouns: us, we, our— as opposed to the second-person ‘you.’ He in no way wanted to bury them under any overbearing intimidation or false guilt…Calvin stood together with the people, under the authority of God’s Word, including himself in the need to act on biblical truth.”