"For the will is so overwhelmed by wickedness and so pervaded by vice and corruption that it cannot in any way escape to honorable exertion or devote itself to righteousness."

"There is nothing more miserable than man without God."

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

"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."

"The salvation of the elect depends on the free election of God."