Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

The Gospel declares those who believe righteous and saved.

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.

In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.