# “A hard, toilsome, and unquiet life” by John Calvin

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“Each must bear his own cross. For whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy
of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet 
life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evils. It is the Heavenly Father’s
will thus to exercise them so as to put His own children to a definite test. Beginning
with Christ, His first-born, He follows His plan with all His children.”

–John Calvin, _Institutes of the Christian Religion_, John T. McNeill, Ed. Library
of Christian Classics (Nashville: Westminster John Knox, 1960), Vol. 1, Book 3, 
Chapter VIII, Section 1, p. 702.

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