A Sense of GOD Naturally Engraven on the Human Heart

Published Date: September 20, 2018
Pierre-Jacques Wolle. The Eruption Of Mount Vesuvius, 1777.


By the fact that the very reprobate are forced to acknowledge it. 

When at their ease, they can jest about God, and talk pertly and loquaciously in disparagement of his power; 

but should despair, from any cause, overtake them, it will stimulate them to seek him, and dictate ejaculatory prayers, 

proving that they were not entirely ignorant of God, but had perversely suppressed feelings which ought to have been earlier manifested.

John Calvin. The Institutes, 1.4.4.