For it is much better for wicked persons and sinners, who are ignorant in the ways of self-government, that they not entrust themselves to themselves, but become servants to holy persons and be subject to their betters. Thus they will not be directed by their own bad thought, but by the good one of others. You see how great is the Lord’s kindness, which he cuts off and conceals from the ears of the multitude and veils with severe words, so that no bold, wicked servant and ungrateful despiser is produced