enchir15 CHAPTER XV THE HOLY SPIRIT (56) AND THE CHURCH (57-60) 56. Now, when we have spoken of Jesus Christ, the only Son of God our Lord, in the brevity…

enchir14 CHAPTER XIV THE MYSTERIES OF CHRIST'S MEDIATORIAL WORK (48-49) AND JUSTIFICATION (50-55) 48. That one sin, however, committed in a setting of such great happiness, was itself so great…

enchir13 CHAPTER XIII BAPTISM AND ORIGINAL SIN 41. Since he was begotten and conceived in no pleasure of carnal appetite--and therefore bore no trace of original sin--he was, by the…

enchir12 CHAPTER XII THE ROLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 38. Are we, then, to say that the Holy Spirit is the Father of Christ's human nature, so that as God…

enchir11 CHAPTER XI THE INCARNATION AS PRIME EXAMPLE OF THE ACTION OF GOD'S GRACE 36. In this the grace of God is supremely manifest, commended in grand and visible fashion;…

enchir10 CHAPTER X JESUS CHRIST THE MEDIATOR 33. Thus it was that the human race was bound in a just doom and all men were children of wrath. Of this…

enchir09 CHAPTER IX THE REPLACEMENT OF THE FALLEN ANGELS BY ELECT MEN (28-30); THE NECESSITY OF GRACE (30-32) 28. While some of the angels deserted God in impious pride and…

enchir08 CHAPTER VIII THE PLIGHT OF MAN AFTER THE FALL 23. With this much said, within the necessary brevity of this kind of treatise, as to what we need to…

enchir07 CHAPTER VII DISPUTED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE AND CERTAINTY IN VARIOUS MATTERS 20. I do not rightly know whether errors of this sort should be called sins--when…

enchir06 CHAPTER VI THE PROBLEM OF LYING 18. Here a most difficult and complex issue arises which I once dealt with in a large book, in response to the urgent…