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.

Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.

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

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.

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.

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

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