Since it is impossible, without God, to come to knowledge of God, he teaches men through his Word to know God.

But we do now receive a certain portion of His Spirit, tending towards perfection, and preparing us for incorruption, being little by little accustomed to receive and bear God

The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.

The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.

[Peter] testified to [the Jews in Acts 2] that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Judge of the living and dead, into whom he did also command them to be baptized for the remission of sins.

We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the Gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith

Because of his boundless love, Jesus became what we are that he might make us to be what he is.