Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man

How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.

God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.