Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.

The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.

They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

True faith is ever connected with hope.

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have.

Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.