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.

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

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.

The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.

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.