Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.

Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.

But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.