Q182. What then do you make of those who have never seen themselves shut up by unbelief under sin and the curse of God?

I will not judge them regarding the future, since God may yet convert them before they die; but their present state is miserable. Because they are shut up and held prisoner by the law, by their own desires, by the devil, and by unbelief, they cannot so much as sincerely desire in their hearts that God would have mercy on them and bring them out of their snares and chains.