The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given

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

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

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

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.

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.