"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."
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"Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind."
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"In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water."
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"Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride."
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"For it was not after we were reconciled to him by the blood of his Son that he began to love us, but he loved us before the foundation of the world, that with his only begotten Son we too might be sons of God before we were anything at all."
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"The whole gospel is contained in Christ."
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"Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished."
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"Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain."
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"The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church."
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"True faith is ever connected with hope."
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"Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of."
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"There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception."
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"By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man"
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"Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin."
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"Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil."
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"Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all."
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"Let this be our rule for goodwill and helpfulness, that whenever we are able to assist others we should behave as stewards who must someday give an account of ourselves."
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"To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity."
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"For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God."
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"For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God."
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