Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

Free will is an empty term.

For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written, are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.

God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.