Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

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.

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.

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.

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

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.