Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

Satan is an astute theologian.

There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.

The whole gospel is contained in Christ.

Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.