Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

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

God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.

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.

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

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