The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their faith.

Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.

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.

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.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.

But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.