Institutes 3.9.4 — OF MEDITATING ON THE FUTURE LIFE.

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**OF MEDITATING ON THE FUTURE LIFE.**

In proportion as this improper love diminishes, our desire of a better life should increase. I confess, indeed, that a most accurate opinion was formed by those who thought, that the best thing was not to be born, the next best to die early. For, being destitute of the light of God and of true religion, what could they see in it that was not of dire and evil omen? Nor was it unreasonable for those French, “Le peuple des Scythes;”—the Scythians.

Source

• source-manifest/institutes — Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, tr. Beveridge 1845 (PD)
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