Laurence Clarkson (1615–1667) English theologian
A Single Eye, All Light, No Darkness; or Light and Darkness One (1650)
“In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.”
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion
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