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

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

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

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.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

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.