Theodore Beza — Theodore Beza, A Brief and Pithy Summe of the Christian Faith (English translation by R. Fills, article on assurance of salvation by faith).

When therefore, after St. Paul, we say that we are justified by faith alone, or freely, or by faith without works... we do not say that faith is a virtue which makes us righteous, in ourselves, before God. For this would…

Christian faith is that only hand, whereby we take hold, or apply unto ourselves, Christ being offered unto us, with all his benefits, that are necessary unto our salvation.

Since the purpose of all well-ordered polities is not simply peace and quiet in this life, as some heathen philosophers have imagined, but the glory of God, towards which the whole present life of men should be directed,…

But on the contrary I declare that it is the principal duty of a most excellent and pious ruler that there should apply whatever means, authority and power has been granted him by God to this end entirely that God may tr…

Therefore, in regard to this very subject of which we here treat, since we have the clear word and command of God, by which magistrates are ordered to punish blasphemy. ... This is particularly the duty of the Magistrate…

If the Apostle justly prohibits the use of unknown tongues in the church, much less would he have tolerated these artificial musical performances, which are addressed to the ear only, and seldom strike the understanding,…