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.

It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.

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

Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.

Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.