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and will give great signs and wonders: so that they might seduce (if possible) even the elect. Behold, I have predicted it to you. Therefore, if they say to you, Behold, he is in the desert, do not go out; Behold, in the inner rooms: do not believe. Since Christ says: do not believe, it is therefore another Gospel, not the Gospel of Christ: not the Gospel that was preached by the Apostles. Today it is said by many: Behold, here is Christ bodily; Behold, he is there; Behold, the flesh of Christ is everywhere. How far is this from that which Paul says about his own Gospel, That you should await his Son from the heavens, Jesus, who delivers from that coming wrath. How far it is from the Gospel brought forth by the mouth of Christ himself, who says: Do not believe. And he adds the same reason which the Apostle learned from him: For just as lightning comes from the East and appears even to the West: so also will be the coming of the Son of Man. There is no reason why anyone here should offer his simplicity or ignorance; you have been sufficiently warned by Christ; you cannot err if you insist on the articles of faith. Sacraments are not another Gospel, but are visible words, as Doctor Augustine names them, which teach and confirm the same thing that the word of the Gospel does. For what you hear in the Gospel—that Christ died for our sins, which had been laid upon him, and rose again for our justification, so that not one remained, and that this justice is continued while he, in the same body in which he abolished our sins forever, appears at the right hand of the Father, and from there, having sent the Holy Spirit, seals the promise of the remission of sins on our hearts, and restores them to the image of God—that