Mercy and truth are joined together by an everlasting bond. That is, whatever God mercifully promises, he also faithfully performs.

Christ held the salvation of souls so dear and so precious that He wished to employ everything to that end. Since it is so, we ought boldly to be founded upon Him to call upon Him and to be made entirely sure that it is not in vain that He suffered so for our sakes.

Helvidius claimed Mary had other children, but Jerome defended her perpetual virginity. Scripture only confirms Christ’s birth from a virgin, saying nothing about what followed.

Christ's flesh is filled with divine life that flows into believers like water from a fountain, making communion with him necessary for eternal life (Institutes 4.17.9).

To find assurance of your election, look to Christ alone. He is the mirror of our election. If you are in communion with him, you are written in the Book of Life.

Because of Israel's stubborn unbelief, God swore they would not enter his rest. But Canaan was that rest, ultimately pointing to the greater spiritual rest only God gives (Ps 95).

God's gradual six-day creation reveals His fatherly goodness, enriching the earth before creating Adam, ordering all things for human flourishing, and pointing us to the one Creator.

God repeatedly commanded Joshua to be strong and courageous, teaching that true strength and success come from persevering in God’s calling and faithfully obeying His law without adding to or altering it (Joshua 1).

Calling Mary “Mother of God (Theotokos)” may encourage ignorance and superstition. I find the title improper, unsuitable, and not edifying for the Church.

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In baptism there is water, and in the Eucharist there is bread. But penance has no visible element appointed by God; therefore it is a feigned sacrament, a human invention.

Paul used circumcision only for the church’s edification. He circumcised Timothy to remove offense among Jews, yet refused Titus (Gal 2:3), lest the freedom of the gospel appear subject to necessity (Acts 16).

Christians must maintain an internal heart prepared for a perpetual cross, yet they may, without personal spite, use the magistrate to preserve property and restrain those whom only death will reform.

Jerome listed five groups in the church: bishops, presbyters, deacons, believers, and catechumens, giving no formal place to other clergy or monks.

"Christ has given us two Sacraments to serve us as full confirmation... to show us with the eye how much He valued it that from the side of our Lord Jesus Christ there proceeded blood and water."

Paul shows his faithfulness by rejecting human praise and seeking God’s approval, since the desire to please men corrupts doctrine and undermines true service to Christ (Gal 1).

Because God alone regenerates his people by his own good will, any claim that we made ourselves new men robs him of his glory. We did not choose him. He chose us. And the same grace that began our spiritual life is what keeps us safe until the very end.

Satan is only allowed by God limited freedom, and even that permission serves God’s purpose of judging and punishing an ungrateful, unbelieving world (Acts 16).

Man’s nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

“The weak, who are afraid to draw near to God, may understand that they are invited to him with such gentleness as that nothing may hinder them from familiarly and confidently approaching him” (Ps 102).