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| 19. | Earthly things may be the type of heavenly, but the latter cannot be the types of others still superior and unknown; nor can we, without absolute madness, maintain that God is known to us only as the type of a still unknown and superior being, | 436 | |
| 20. | That one God formed all things in the world, by means of the Word and the Holy Spirit: and that although He is to us in this life invisible and incomprehensible, nevertheless He is not unknown; inasmuch as His works do declare Him, and His Word has shown that in many modes He may be seen and known, | 439 | |
| 21. | Abraham's faith was identical with ours; this faith was prefigured by the words and actions of the old patriarchs, | 451 | |
| 22. | Christ did not come for the sake of the men of one age only, but for all who, living righteously and piously, had believed upon Him; and for those, too, who shall believe, | 453 | |
| 23. | The patriarchs and prophets, by pointing out the advent of Christ, fortified thereby, as it were, the way of posterity to the faith of Christ; and so the labours of the apostles were lessened, inasmuch as they gathered in the fruits of the labours of others, | 455 | |
| 24. | The conversion of the Gentiles was more difficult than that of the Jews; the labours of those apostles, therefore, who engaged in the former task, were greater than those who undertook the latter, | 457 | |
| 25. | Both covenants were prefigured in Abraham, and in the labour of Tamar; there was, however, but one and the same God to each covenant, | 459 | |
| 26. | The treasure hid in the Scriptures is Christ; the true exposition of the Scriptures is to be found in the church alone, | 461 | |
| 27. | The sins of the men of old time, which incurred the displeasure of God, were, by His providence, committed to writing, that we might derive instruction thereby, and not be filled with pride. We must not, therefore, infer that there was another God than He whom Christ preached; we should rather fear lest the one and the same God who inflicted punishment on the ancients should bring down heavier upon us, | 465 | |
| 28. | Those persons prove themselves senseless who exaggerate the mercy of Christ, but are silent as to the judgment, and look only at the more abundant grace of the New Testament; but, forgetful of the greater degree of perfection which it demands from us, they endeavour to show that there is another God beyond Him who created the world, | 471 | |
