reveals His mercy to us we are sufficiently enlightened to have a firm assurance. Both of these are properly shown to us by the apostle in different places. For in saying that "we know in part, prophesy in part, and see unclearly as in a mirror" (1 Cor. 13[9, 12] ), he indicates how small the portion of divine wisdom given to us in this life is. But he himself shows in another passage how great is the certainty of the least drop of faith which we have in us, when he testifies that by the gospel we so contemplate the glory of God, uncovered and without hindrance, that we are transformed into
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