In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.

Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all

I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law