Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.

Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction.

The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.

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

They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.