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

Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.

Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

But prosperity, and the happy issue of events, ought also to be attributed to his grace, in order that he may always receive the praise which he deserves, that of being a merciful Father, and an impartial Judge. About the close of the psalm, he inveighs against those ungodly men who will not acknowledge God's hand, amid such palpable demonstrations of his providence.