“God decreed to save and damn certain particular persons. This decree has its foundation in the foreknowledge of God, by which he knew from all eternity those individuals who would, through his preventing [going before] grace, believe, and, through his subsequent grace would persevere by which foreknowledge, he likewise knew those who would not believe and persevere.”
Quote by Jacobus Arminius
“In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed and lost. And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace.”
“For we love not God first, to compel him to love again; but he loved us first, and gave his Son for us, that we might see love and love again, saith St John in his first epistle.”
Source: The Works of the English Reformers: The works of Tyndale, (continued:) An answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue ; An exposition upon the 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters of Matthew ; An exposition upon the 1st epistle of St. John ; A pathway into the Holy Scripture ; The sacrament of baptism, and the sacrament of the body and blood of our saviour Jesus Christ
“We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's.” To which Tyndale passionately responded: “I defy the Pope, and all his laws; and if God spares my life, ere many years, I will cause the boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost!”
“The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers. The physical is the substratum of the spiritual; and this fact ought to give to the food we eat, and the air we breathe, a transcendent significance.”
“But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.”
“In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it.”
Source: Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures
“And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood.”
Source: The Works of the English Reformers: The works of Tyndale, (continued:) An answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue ; An exposition upon the 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters of Matthew ; An exposition upon the 1st epistle of St. John ; A pathway into the Holy Scripture ; The sacrament of baptism, and the sacrament of the body and blood of our saviour Jesus Christ
“For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?”
Source: Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures
“Christ is with us until the world's end. Let his little flock be bold therefore.”
Source: Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures
“To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.”
Source: The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith