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.

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.

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.

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.

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