We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.

Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.

We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction. We maintain that this counsel, as regards the elect, is founded on his free mercy, without any respect to human worth, while those whom he dooms to destruction are excluded from access to life by a just and blameless, but at the same time incomprehensible judgment