From Calvin’s First Catechism
It is a matter of common agreement that without true religion we live a most miserable life, not above the level of brute beasts, and consequently there is no one who wishes to appear more completely alien to piety and the worship of God. Yet, there is a great difference in the way men declare there religion, for the majority goes by an earnest fear of God. But, whether they want to or not, they are repeatedly bought up short by this thought, that there is a divinity, by whose decision they stand or fall. Consequently, struck by that notion of such great power, they venerate it after a fashion in order not to call it down upon themselves by excessive contempt.Yet, in the meantime they lead a most depraved life completely devoid of all zeal for uprightness, and display utter nonchalance in their contempt for God’s judgment. Then, because they measure God not by His infinite majesty but by the foolish and stupid vanity of their own nature, they fall away from the true God. Accordingly, with however much they afterward weary themselves over worshipping God, they get nowhere, since it is not the eternal God but the dreams and ravings of their own heart they are adoring as God. But true Godliness does not consist in a fear of which willingly indeed flees from God’s judgements, but since it cannot escape is terrified. True Godliness consists rather in a sincere feeling which loves God as Father as much as it fears and reverences him as Lord, embraces his righteousness and dreads offending Him worse than death. And whoever have been endowed with this Godliness dare not fashion out of their own rashness any God for themselves. Rather they seek from him the knowledge of the true God, and conceive him just as he shows and declares himself to be. [John Calvin]
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Nothing much to tell. I’m walking a single solitary pilgrims walk, in England, that is not an easy one. I am a Calvinistic Covenanter Christian, My Autonomic Nervous system is failing slowly, which has led to severe disability, with an ultra rare disease than medics don’t even understand, often misdiagnose.and will no doubt kill me at some point. But, I trust the Lord to get me where I’m going. All glory to HIM.
The symptomology listed on the link, most porphyrics will only have most of those symptoms if in an acute attack. A few of us, with the ongoing, smouldering symptoms, that never go away, have most if not all of the symptom list, even when not in an acute attack, and are persistent and constant. Anyone who has ever been in the psychiactric system, diagnosed as this or that, even if physically well, should consider this illness could be responsible. King George III, the most famous porphyric, his sole symptom was “insanity.” Its so rare in part, because it’s massively under-diagnosed. But in making this illness known, when it struck me physically a few years ago, God vindicated me from every mis-diagnoses and bersmirchment upon me medically that has ever been made, and has made them all null and void.
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