Promise Not Providence

Judge not Christ's love by providences, but by promises.  (Puritan Thomas Wilcox, Honey Out of the Rock)

Whole Price, Whole Praise

Is Christ your High-priest, and is his priesthood so indispensably necessary to our salvation? Then, freely acknowledge your utter impotency to reconcile yourselves to God by anything you can do or suffer, and let Christ have the whole glory of your recovery ascribed to him. It is highly reasonable that he who laid down the whole price should have the whole praise.

— John Flavel, The Fountain of Life

So Refresh Ourselves with His Goodness

It therefore becomes us also diligently to prosecute that investigation of God which so enraptures the soul with admiration as, at the same time, to make an efficacious impression on it. And, as  Augustine expresses it, since we are unable to comprehend Him, and are, as it were, overpowered by his greatness, our proper course is to contemplate his works, and so refresh ourselves with His goodness. (John Calvin, Institutes, Book 1, Chapter V)

Many Monster Minds

At this day, however, the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds - minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. (John Calvin, Institutes, Book 1, Chapter V)

That None Might Be Excluded

Since the perfection of blessedness consists in the knowledge of God, he has been pleased, in order that none might be excluded from the means of obtaining felicity, not only to deposit in our minds that seed of religion of which we have already spoken, but so to manifest his perfections in the whole structure of the universe, and daily place himself in our view, that we cannot open our eyes without being compelled to behold him. (John Calvin, Institutes, Book 1, Chapter V)

Unless They Place Their Entire Happiness in Him

For, until men feel that they owe everything to God, that they are cherished by his paternal care, and that he is the author of all their blessings, so that nought is to be looked for away from him, they will never submit to him in voluntary obedience; nay, unless they place their entire happiness in him, they will never yield up their whole selves to him in truth and sincerity. (John Calvin, Institutes, Book 1, Chapter II)

Although There Were No Hell

Loving and revering God as his father, honouring and obeying him as his master, although there were no hell, he would revolt at the very idea of offending him. (John Calvin, Institutes, Book 1, Chapter II)