There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.