For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.

God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.