"...those whom God passes over [praeterit], he condemns [reprobat]; and this he does for no other reason than that he wills to exclude them from the inheritance which he predestines [praedestinat] for …"

"The elect are called according to God's purpose, not according to their own merits."

"All are not created on equal terms, but some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation; and, accordingly, as each has been created for one or other of these ends, we say that he has…"

"God has no greater enemy than the proud man."

"For the mind of man, when it has once been infected with this pest, is so utterly perverse that it is with difficulty restrained from framing for itself, after the example of the devil, some new and u…"