Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.

To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.

Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.

It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.

He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.

This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the aid of carnal Reason with her inferences and similes is called in, just as in a picture or a dream you might see the King of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops. That is how the human dreams of Diatribe go to war with the battalions of divine words.