The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.