"It is not in vain that he banishes all those human affections which soften our hearts; that he commands paternal love and all the benevolent feelings between brothers, relations, and friends to cease;…"

"Whence it is sufficiently plain that they are not chosen for their own merit, but because God has gratuitously chosen them."

"It is not on the basis of human works, whether performed or foreseen, that God decrees to elect some based on unmerited grace and pass by (preterition) others based on proximate sinful works."

"We are debtors to God, and can never pay the debt."

"We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone."