Joy and patience are far above our strength... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint... Prayer and perseverance are necessary in our daily conflicts. The best remedy to the weariness is diligence in prayer.

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

It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.

We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness.

The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.