Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.

It is permissible to use wine not only for necessity, but also to make us merry...... [it must be moderate] lest men forget themselves, drown their senses,.....in making merry [those who enjoy wine] feel a livelier gratitude to God.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.