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 first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

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 good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

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.