A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.

The material universe exists only in the mind.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.