John Calvin

“ KNOWLEDGE IN CHRIST IESVS. If the Apostle Paule (right honorable) condemne the negligence of men, because they behold not the euident spectacle of the glorie of God which is set before their eyes in the workemanship of the worlde, by which they wickedly suppresse the light of trueth: no lesse foule and shameful was that ignorance of the original and creation of mankind which almost in euery age and time so greatly preuailed. ”

“ Whereby wee may perceiue, that they which ought to haue endeuored themselues, to knowe the workemaister of the worlde,sought rather by their vngodlinesse howe they might be wilfully blinde and ignorant. In the meane time the liberal Sciences florished,men's witts were sharpe and quicke, greate paines euery way was taken:and yet nothing was spoken of the creation of the worlde. ”

“ Howe, of one man withered, and almost halfe dead,there sprang seede, which sodainly grewe into a huge people: and, finally, by what wonderfull meanes God: aduanced and defended his chosen familie, though it were poore and destitute of al helpe, and enuironed with thousands of enemies on euery side. ”