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

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.

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.

The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were, by an inward word.

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

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