grace and elegance of creatures becomes highly coarse and crude in God’s sight. Someone like this is incapable of the infinite grace and beauty of God because of the extreme difference between the coarse and the infinitely elegant. And all the goodness of the creatures of the world compared to the infinite goodness of God can be called wickedness. Nothing is good save God only [Lk 18:19]. Those who set their hearts on the good things of the world become extremely wicked in the sight of God. Since
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