The sin of Adam did not make the condemnation of all men merely possible; it was the ground of their actual condemnation. So the righteousness of Christ did not make the salvation of men merely possible, it secured the actual salvation of those for whom He wrought.

The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.

There is a great difference between the irreconcilable and the self-contradict ory.

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.

This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him

When we are weak, then are we strong. When most empty of self, we are most full of God.

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.