The Gospel acts without threats... it teaches us about the supreme goodwill of God towards us.

Those little children have not yet any understanding to desire His blessing; but when they are presented to Him, He gently and kindly receives them, and dedicates them to the Father by a solemn act of blessing.

When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.

The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.

If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.

The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.

But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction.