Serving Our Redeemer
Now
let us cast ourselves down before the majesty of our good God with
acknowledgement of our faults, praying him so to make us feel them that
it may draw us to true repentance and make us to continue the same all
the time of our life,
and
that at the same time we may not cease to trust in him and to offer
ourselves boldly in his fight, since our sins are blotted out by the
blood that was shed for the washing of them,
and
that we may so conform ourselves to this doctrine that we may all the
time of our life acknowledge that seeing he has purchased us at such a
price, we ought to give ourselves wholly to his service;
and
since he has shown himself so good a Redeemer towards us, we may not
doubt that he will continue his goodness from day to day to the final
completion of the thing he has begun, and strengthen us in all assaults
till he has delivered us from the cruelty of Satan and of all his
supporters, yes and clean taken us out of the world to make us partakers
of the happy blessedness unto which he calls us.
And may it please him to grant this grace not only to us, but also to all people and nations.
John Calvin
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