The office of presbyters is a permanent one.

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

The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.

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

In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian finds in his path, and which he must dispose of; and on the manner in which it is determined depends his theology, and of course his religion, so far as his theology is to him a truth and reality

There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.

It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason for whatever comes to pass. What is man that he should contend with God, or presume that his interests rather than God's glory should be made the final end?