It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.

Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived since his time, but to whom he has never been revealed, should be saved by faith in God alone: still however, through the sole merits of Christ, inasmuch as he was given and slain from the beginning of the world, even for those to whom he was not known, provided they believed in God the Father.

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.

What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?

To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.