Chapter 7: On the means of salvation; Word as law or Gospel
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CHAPTER SEVEN.On the means of human salvation, and namely on the law.
Thus far we have seen the principles of salvation on which it depends; now we will treat the means by which one arrives at it.These are partly external, by which God opens and offers us eternal salvation by which it is conferred on us by the same God and apprehended by us.
II.The external means are: the word, the sacraments, and the ministry.III.The WORD of God is the external means of salvation by which God indicates His will to humans, so that they may know what He wills to be done by them and how He is affected toward them.IV.And it is law or Gospel.The whole word of God is now contained in the books of the Old and New Testaments.
Latin
CAPUT SEPTIMUM, De mediis salutis humanae, & quidem nominatim de lege. Hactenus vidimus de principiis salutis, e quibus ea dependet; nunc agemus de mediis, quibus ad eam pervenitur, eaque sunt alia externa, quibus a Deo salus aeterna nobis patefit et offertur, aliud internum, quo illa ab eodem nobis confertur & a nobis apprehenditur. II. Externa sunt: verbum, sacramenta & ministerium. III. VERBUM Dei est externum salutis medium, quo Deus hominibus voluntatem suam indicat, ut cognoscant quid ab ipsis fieri velit, & quomodo erga eos affectus sit. IV. Estque lex aut Evangelium. Totum Dei verbum libris V. & N.T. nunc continetur.