The Sacraments: A Dogmatic TreatiseAeterna Press - Religion The justification of the sinner, with which we have dealt in a previous treatise, is ordinarily not a purely internal and invisible process or series of acts, but requires the instrumentality of external visible signs instituted by Jesus Christ, which either confer grace or augment it. Aeterna Press |
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