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entire thing you see with your eyes in the Sacraments as if in visible words. In the Eucharistic bread representing the body of Christ, delivered unto death, you see, as if with your own eyes, the body of Christ broken for you, your sins abolished in Him, that He rose again free from your sins, that He appears before the Father for you, in whom your sins have been expiated forever, and that you are united to Him through the Holy Spirit: and thus that He is eternal food for you. For the Sacraments were not instituted so that those works might purge from sins: otherwise Christ would have died in vain, but so that they might be testimonies and seals of that righteousness which faith possesses in the death of Christ alone. Romans 4.
There is a need for this doctrine, because many will fall away. And Christ says: Do you think the Son of man will find faith on the earth? Now, therefore, let us speak about certainty.
If I or an Angel from heaven, etc.
The truth of the Gospel, which is encompassed in the articles of faith, is so immutable that either I, Paul, or an Angel, must be accursed if he announces another Gospel. That is to say: Do not care about learned disputations or any respect of persons, or the authority of men. For the articles of faith, or the Gospel, is above the Angels in heaven. The cause of certainty is the immutable truth of God. original: "Es muss ein fest wort sein" - It must be a firm word. Heaven and earth will pass away, my words will not pass away. Likewise, As far as the heaven is from the earth, so far are my thoughts from yours.
Thus: If even an Angel had come to Eve, intending to call the word of the Lord into doubt, he ought to have been held as accursed by her.