Yet this seed is so corrupted that it only produces bad fruit, and so here we sin chiefly in two ways. The first is that, to seek God's truth, wretched people do not rise above their nature, as would be fitting, but they measure His greatness according to the weakness of their senses. They do not understand Him at all as He has given Himself to be known, but imagine Him as they have made Him by their presumption.
