An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God.

The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.

After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.

Thoughts are not subject to duty.

If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.

Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation.