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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…

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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…

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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;…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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enchir16 CHAPTER XVI PROBLEMS ABOUT HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY DIVISIONS OF THE CHURCH 60. It is more important to be able to discern and tell when Satan transforms himself as an…

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enchir17 CHAPTER XVII FORGIVENESS OF SINS IN THE CHURCH 64. The angels are in concord with us even now, when our sins are forgiven. Therefore, in the order of the…

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enchir18 CHAPTER XVIII 140 FAITH AND WORKS 67. There are some, indeed, who believe that those who do not abandon the name of Christ, and who are baptized in his…

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