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.

The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.

The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.

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

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

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.