I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.

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

Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?

God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.

There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.

Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.