For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.

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.

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.

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

Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.

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

The Gospel declares those who believe righteous and saved.