To have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy alone as our only hope of salvation. ... No one can be justified by the law; justification is through faith alone.

We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.

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

All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

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.