John Calvin:

For the mind of man, when it has once been infected with this pest, is so utterly perverse that it is with difficulty restrained from framing for itself, after the example of the devil, some new and unheard of worship.

— John Calvin Early Modern

Protestant reformer

Context

Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book I, Chapter 11, Section 8

Date / Period

1559

Source

https://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes.iii.xii.html

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