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 the triune God, there is no other object of divine worship, but homage may be paid to the Virgin Mary, and reverence  to the saints and to their pictures and relics.

“Man is born with a corrupt bias, which was not his at creation; the first man, when created, possessed. Through the first sin, Adam and his posterity lost. In this natural state, man, who, even before he actually sins, is a sinner before God by original or inherited sin, commits manifold actual transgressions; but he is not absolutely without power of will towards good, and is not always doing evil.

“Christ, the Son of God, became man in two natures, which internally and inseparably united make One Person, and, according to the eternal purpose of God, has obtained for man reconciliation with God and eternal life, inasmuch as he, by his vicarious death has made satisfaction to God for the world’s sins; and this satisfaction was. Man is made partaker of reconciliation in spiritual regeneration, which he attains to, being led and kept by the Holy Ghost. This divine help is offered to all men without distinction, and may be rejected. In order to attain to salvation, man is justified, and, when so justified,. He may fall from this state of grace through mortal sin.