Saturdays with Calvin #35

For the gospel does not confine the hearts of men to the enjoyment of the present life, but raises them to the hope of immortality; does not fix them down to earthly delights, but announcing that there is treasure in heaven, carries the heart thither also.

For the preaching of the gospel declares nothing more than that sinners, without any merit of their own, are justified by the paternal indulgence of God. It is wholly summed up in Christ.

Institutes of the Christian Religion 2.10.3, 2.10.4, John Calvin, translated by Henry Beveridge, Hendrickson, pp. 274-275.