Lord’s Day 51, Chapter 3: A Serious Limiting Clause (2) / Lord’s Day 52, Chapter 1: The Idea of Temptation (1)

Lord's Day 51 Chapter Three: A Serious Limiting Clause It is plain, too, that in this parable this, servant was serving the king with the king's goods. Of himself he had nothing. Perhaps the king had set him over part of his possession. The same is true with men in relation to God. Of themselves they have nothing. They receive their all from God: their talents and powers and means and all their possessions. And with it all man is never anything else than a servant, in duty bound to serve his...