The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

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

Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.

To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.

At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; . . . but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God.

Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.