He makes this favor common to all, because it is propounded to all, and not because it is in reality extended to all; for though Christ suffered for the sins of the whole world, and is offered through God’s benignity indiscriminately to all, yet all do not receive him.

The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

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

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be embraced by all, but that a new understanding and a new perception are requisite; and, therefore, that faith does not depend on the will of men, but that it is God who gives it.

Surely in Judas' betrayal it will be no more right, because God both willed that his Son be delivered up, and delivered him up to death, to ascribe the guilt of the crime to God than to transfer the credit for redemption to Judas.