Hearing The Word Is The Devout Receiving

The Passive Receiving Of Christ Is The Process By Which A Spiritual Principle Of Grace Is Generated In The Will Of Man.

The Ordinary Ministry Is That Which Receives All Of Its Direction From The Will Of God Revealed In The Scriptures And From Those Means Which God Has Appointed In The Church For Its Continual Edification.

Everyone Who Understands The Nature Of God Rightly Necessarily Knows That God Is To Be Believed And Hoped In, That He Is To Be Loved And Called Upon, And To Be Heard In All Things.

Sanctification Is The Real Change In Man From The Sordidness Of Sin To The Purity Of God's Image.

Therefore, The Church Is Not Absolutely Necessary As An Object Of Faith, Not Even For Us Today, For Then Abraham And The Other Prophets Would Not Have Given Assent To Those Things Which Were Revealed To Them From God Without Any Intervening Help Of The Church.