Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.

In our good works nothing is our own.

Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man

In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort of religious fervor, however ridiculous, not realizing that true religion must be according to God's will as the perfect measure; that He can never deny Himself and is no mere spirit form to be changed around according to individual preference.