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| | | Calvin on the gratuitous love of God.
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...for though the adoption is not exactly the same, as it then belonged to one seed and to one family, yet we are not superior to others through our own worthiness, but because God has gratuitously chosen us as a people to himself. Since this has been the case, we are his; for he has redeemed us by the blood of his own Son, and by rendering us partakers, by the gospel, of a favour so ineffably great, he has made us his sons and his servants. Except then we love and reverence him as our Father, and except we fear him as our Lord, there is found in us at this day an ingratitude no less base than in that ancient people.
| --John Calvin; A Commentary on the Twelve Minor Prophets, Volume 5: Zechariah & Malachi; The Banner of Truth Trust; 1986; p. 470.
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