Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

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

Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force of custom. But human affairs have scarcely ever been so happily constituted as that the better course pleased the greater number. Hence the private vices of the multitude have generally resulted in public error, or rather that common consent in vice which these worthy men would have to be law.

Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.

Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.