Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to 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.

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

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

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.