Sublime

Une nouvelle approche de la vie est apparue au dix-septième siècle. Calvin et d’autres pensaient que l’homme est engagé essentiellement dans un voyage solitaire vers le salut de son âme. Le texte principal qui a créé ou exprimé cette solitude au Royaume-Uni est le best-seller de John Bunyan, Le Voyage du pèlerin (1678-1684). Bunyan a vécu de 1628 à

Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Starting with the sinfulness of humans and the wrath of God against sin, he moves on to tell of God’s grace in salvation, which comes to us through God-given faith and not our works.

3Then the LORD said, “My spirit shall not abide[22] in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.”

14Again, though I say to the wicked, “You shall surely die,” yet if they turn from their sin and do what is lawful and right— 15if the wicked restore the pledge, give back what they have taken by robbery, and walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity—they shall surely live, they shall not die. 16None of the sins that they have committed

they profaned my sabbaths.