The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.