The knowledge of God is very far from the love of him.
We are not wearied of eating and sleeping every day, because hunger and drowsiness are renewed; without that we should be weary of them. Thus without the hunger of spiritual things we grow weary of them. Hunger after righteousness, the eighth beatitude.
The conduct of God, who disposes all things gently, is to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace. But to will to put it into the mind and heart by force and menace is not to put religion there, but terror, terrorem potius quam religionem.
[THE ARRANGEMENT.]
First part: Misery of man without God.
Second part: The happiness of man with God.
Or. First part: That Nature is naturally corrupt.
Second part: That the Scripture shows a Redeemer.