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

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.

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.

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

The Gospel declares those who believe righteous and saved.

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.

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