"God uses wicked men as his instruments to execute his judgments."

"God has decreed to save some and to destroy others, and this decree is just."

"This is not laid down on human authority; it is God who speaks and prescribes a perpetual rule for his Church."

"Faith is a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us."

"The fact that infants who die before baptism are damned is a dreadful decree, but no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him."