RoyTinker

To all those who love Christ and his gospel, Greetings. God the Creator, the most perfect
and excellent Maker of all things, who had already shown himself more than admirable in
their creation, made man as his masterpiece, to surpass all other creatures. Man is
endowed with a singular excellence, for God formed him in his own image and likeness, in
which we see a bright refulgence of God’s glory. Furthermore, man would have been able
to continue in the state in which he was formed, if he had been willing to bow down in
humility before the majesty of God, magnifying him with deeds of grace; not to seek his
glory in himself, but knowing that all good things come from above, always to turn his
mind on high and to glorify the one and only God to whom belongs the praise.