Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.

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.

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 passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.

The will of God is single and totally one in Him.

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

Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.