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.

The Gospel declares those who believe righteous and saved.

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.

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

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

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.