But especially it is hid in regard of common infirmities, wanting gifts that others have, that have not a dram of grace sometimes, that live to please men, and look altogether to the outside. They do that many times to please men better than a Christian. Sometimes God himself hides himself out of wisdom and mercy to us, when he sees that we carry not ourselves so reverently as we should. And this reason may be sufficient of God’s dispensation. God will have it so, partly for the further hardening