The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written, are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.

The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

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

Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.