As I work my way through Calvin's Institutes, he never fails to amuse me:
"The Creator of nature himself abundantly arouses this gratitude in us [for our abilities in art and science] when he creates imbeciles. Through them he shows the endowments that the human soul would enjoy unpervaded by his light..."
-John Calvin. Institutes 2.2.14
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It was certainly a different time. If a modern theologian were to write something like that, he'd be accused of unchristian harshness.
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