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114 of Divine grace to the soul, which are closed up indeed by unfaithfulness, yet are efficacious, not simply by animating our faith; but the one, by actually incorporating us into, and creating in our souls a new principle of life, and making us "partakers of the Divine nature;" the other, imparting to us increased union with , and (to use a term of the Fathers ) a deifying influence, whereby gives us that which man would have accepted from Satan—to "be as Gods," being partakers of the  of. But how the Sacraments effect this we know not: we understand not the mysteries of our first, how should we then of our second, birth? Of both rather we confess, that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, but how we were fashioned, we know not.

This school then, by taking as their one definition of the