the chief and grand means of edification, without which all other helps will disappoint us, and prove like clouds without water — are the Bible and p… - John Newton

We have sometimes escaped from grave dangers not by any wisdom or foresight of our own, but by the intervention of unforeseen circumstances. So both the revelation of Scripture and our own individual experiences confirm the wisdom and good providence of God. He watches over His people from the earliest moment of their lives. He overrules and guards them through all their blind wanderings and leads them in a way that they know not.

Here is the humble confidence of faith - that what God begins shall not miscarry and those whom He leads shall not be lost.

Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.