It is a Diabolical Science!

[Joshua]

Calvin (Commentary on the Book of Psalms, vol. 1, p. 479):

What a monstrous thing is it, that while all the irrational portion of the creation tremble before God, men alone, who are endued with sense and reason, are not moved! Moreover, though they possess genius and learning, they employ enchantments to shut their ears against God’s voice, however powerful, lest it should reach their hearts. Philosophers think not that they have reasoned skilfully enough about inferior causes, unless they separate God very far from his works. It is a diabolical science, however, which fixes our contemplations on the works of nature, and turns them away from God. If any one who wished to know a man should take no notice of his face, but should fix his eyes only on the points of his nails, his folly might justly be derided. But far greater is the folly of those philosophers, who, out of mediate and proximate causes, weave themselves vails, lest they should be compelled to acknowledge the hand of God, which manifestly displays itself in his works.​

 

[jwright82]

Calvin (Commentary on the Book of Psalms, vol. 1, p. 479):

What a monstrous thing is it, that while all the irrational portion of the creation tremble before God, men alone, who are endued with sense and reason, are not moved! Moreover, though they possess genius and learning, they employ enchantments to shut their ears against God’s voice, however powerful, lest it should reach their hearts. Philosophers think not that they have reasoned skilfully enough about inferior causes, unless they separate God very far from his works. It is a diabolical science, however, which fixes our contemplations on the works of nature, and turns them away from God. If any one who wished to know a man should take no notice of his face, but should fix his eyes only on the points of his nails, his folly might justly be derided. But far greater is the folly of those philosophers, who, out of mediate and proximate causes, weave themselves vails, lest they should be compelled to acknowledge the hand of God, which manifestly displays itself in his works.​

I tell you what, half the joy of reading the Reformers is the insults.

 

[jwright82]

It reminds me of a book I'm reading now by K. A. Kitchen, a more or less conservative Egyptologist and Archeologist, who has no issues with calling the "Liberal" thinker's in his field out by use of insulting language.
He's a "maximalist" (believes like I do in a maximum amount of evidence for the historical reliability of Scripture) vs a "minimalist" (nearly opposite definition, think about the two as a scale from one end to the other).
But like the Reformers he has the "receipts" to back up what he's saying.