God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.
But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.
Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.
True faith is ever connected with hope.
Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.
Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.