It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

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

Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.

Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'

God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.