But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!

This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'

The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God.

Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in any wise spare him, but although the whole world should set itself against us, yet must we maintain the case with invincible constancy, without bending for any creature.