"I cannot think such language either right, or becoming, or suitable. ... To call the Virgin Mary the mother of God can only serve to confirm the ignorant in their superstitions."
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John Calvin, Epistle CCC to the French church in London, 27th September 1552; translated by Jules Bonnet, p.362
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