The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot

Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were—the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the approaches are that God makes to us, the more intimate and condescending the communication of his benefits, the more attentively are we called to consider them.

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

Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.

It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.