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The will of God is single and totally one in Him.

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.

Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.

The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given

The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were, by an inward word.

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.

The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.