"The Christian life is a perpetual exercise of repentance."

"God's sovereignty is absolute."

"It is a horrible decree, I confess, but no one can deny that God foreknew what the end of man was to be before he created him, and that he foreknew it because he had so ordained it."

"However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts."

"The wicked are justly condemned, because they are not only alien from God, but are also full of all impurity."