The World's Ruined

Richard Sibbes:
"In time of temptation, apprehensive consciences look so much to the present trouble that they need to be roused up to behold Him in whom they may find rest. In temptations it is safest to behold nothing but Christ the true brazen serpent, “the true...

“There,” he said, “a very simple adjustment. Humans want crumbs removed; mice are anxious to remove them…”     - Chapter 8, The Pendragon - That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
Words spoken by Ransom in Lewis' final book of The Space Trilogy. Crumbs daily fall on the floor. The mess needs to be removed. Without a daily cleansing eventually filth accumulates! Ordering this adjustment to clean things up permits life in the house...

From the British side of the Channel...
1.  The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion
XVII. Of Predestination and Election

The experience of every human being points to a remnant of the Moral Law's Covenant of Works (WLC 93 and WCF 4.2) written on the human heart; not just the moral sense of right and wrong but also of reward and punishment.
Q. 93. What is the moral law?
A. The moral law is the declaration of the will of God to mankind, directing and binding everyone to personal, perfect, and perpetual conformity and obedience thereunto, in the frame and disposition of the whole man, soul and body, and in performance...