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

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness.

Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.

How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.

Men are idol factories.

Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection; now, however, she is cast into servitude.