“He accounts himself lesse then the least of all mercies; and yet he looks on the greatest as his due.”

— Ralph Venning

"The Triumph of Assurance", Orthodox Paradoxes, Or, A Believer Clearing Truth by Seeming Contradictions (1647), p. 48-49.

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