However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
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I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
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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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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
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