Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.

Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.

No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone.

We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself.